1. CONTINUOUS DEVELOPEMNT & INNOVATION AT WORKPLACE

2. Innovation & Creativity • What is innovation & Creativity? • Factors detrimental to innovation. • Techniques to improve innovation. • Quality at Workplace. • Employee Participation in Management • Suggestion Scheme

3. Innovation & Creativity • The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. • Creativity in normal sense refers to the approach an individual towards some problems in a different manner, not followed or adopted by other individuals.

4. Without creativity….? • Transfer of information • Appropriate response • Appropriate prediction • Less confusion & ambiguity

7. Blockages for creativity • Information processing • Fear of failure • Apathy towards new ideas • Conformity to standards • Linear thinking

8. Creative thinking Process in Organisation • Identify problem • Generating various alternative solutions (Brain storming, Lateral thinking) • Evaluating the Ideas • Implementing the Ideas)

9. Creativity! What do I need to have? • Sensitivity to problem • Fluency of thinking • Flexibility of thinking • Originality • Redefinition • Elaboration

10. Exercises to enhance creativity • Thought Fantasies • Incremental Outreach • Development in work areas • Imaginative Power

11. Exercises

12. What if we have 7 fingers in our hands

17. Mechanism to improve Innovation & creativity at work place. • Suggestion scheme • Recommendation to Shram Awards • Kaisen • Work Committees • Quality Circles