We could easily get into a heated debate on whether you can get really far copying ideas from your competitors or implementing existing business models in new markets. In short, you can always copy everything and play all our cards to good performance?
In my opinion, we need creativity to achieve competitive advantage and differentiate a business to be recognizable. That will be the basis to capture a market share. So much for the implementation of new business models, but and in day to day?
– Can a blogger live without creativity?
– Can a publicist pose a new campaign without creativity?
– Can designers or programmers to develop products or services without being creative?
Having seen creativity is something precious that we need to cultivate and nurture adequately so that we do not leave at key moments. How many times have I heard the phrase “today I’m not inspired, we’ll leave for another day?” It is true that sometimes we do not manage our creative side out for reasons beyond our professional lives but in the vast majority can do something about that juts out a relentless creative flair.
These are the points that need to pay attention:
1- Do not consume relevant content and not be a day: I search for content via reading, audio, video that you hold with the active head and that is relevant to avoid falling into apathy processes.
2- Do not interact: you should be able to talk to others what you do; it will enrich your day with opinions and criticisms that can ignite some interesting “light bulb”.
3- Stress / little rest / little exercise: If you do not stay in a vital state or you too tired or stressed to work hard you can open your head and get something productive in this direction.
4- Keep the same working environment too long: this can lead to highly monotonous situations. Accomplished make too many habits no longer think of what we do and goes against our creativity.
5- Live surrounded by “depressing elements” of creativity: a good example would be one co-worker, boss or partner every time you try to innovate in some direction has a lot of useless arguments that manage to sink small creative focus that you were building. You have to look to isolate and do not affect us.
6- Do not explore creative ways on other issues: music, art, film … search in other outside your professional life areas can make creative build bridges of great value.
7- Do not adopt a position of permanent observer: observation is the greatest weapon we have to store images, processes or anything that helps to find ways of creativity.
8- Do not be looking for sporadic revulsions: very important, change routines from time to time, take a trip, schedule a weekend in a rural environment. There are thousands of plans that we can carry out and we do not usually make clear your head allow inputting new ideas.
9- Do not look for any panel or creativity tool: there are many ideas or techniques that can help in this direction.
“Creativity techniques for innovation”… What do you think are the main threats to stop being creative?