I am delighted to announce that Bloomsbury have made “Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise” available to pre-order. The book is the result of 20 years work in the field of innovation and creativity across diverse businesses and in academia. I’ve put my heart and soul into the book over the last year so I’m very glad that they accepted the work. It is a privilege to be working for such a prestigious publisher, represented globally and with a list of books to die for including Harry Potter, another excellent HR tale.
One of the central thoughts in the book is the need to turn creativity into innovation if we are to make progress as a society. This plays out every day in HR where there is scope to gain greater engagement if we can encourage people to bring their heads (IQ), hearts (EQ) and souls (SQ) to work. Ideas are plentiful but ones that offer us sustainable advantage are rather more rare. The topic includes the following issues:
- How do you generate great ideas routinely?
- How can you install great idea generation capacity in others?
- What reliable tools for creativity help you generate ideas that are business ready?
- How do you capture great ideas so that they are not lost in the busy-ness of life?
- How can you increase the ratio of ideation : innovation in your enterprise?
- How do you ferment and develop ideas so that they are market ready?
- How can you sell ideas so that they stick in your organisation?
- How can HR be more creative?
- How can HR remove organisational obstacles to progressing a new idea?
- How can HR become a partner in innovation, helping the business address people based setbacks to innovation that can occur during implementation?
This matters on a macro scale. IBM’s New York Stock Exchange survey of more than 1,500 CEO’s from 60 countries and 33 industries reported that creativity mattered more than rigour, management discipline, integrity or even vision to successfully navigate an increasing complex world.
At a micro scale, I found that HR needs more creativity and innovation, having listened to many debates as a CIPD Council member and CIPD branch chair over the years. This prompted me to write a micro-tome on how HR can be more creative called Punk Rock HR. Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise builds on this foundation in a more substantial way.
