Creativity Is Your Business Innovation Engine. With Natalie Nixon of Figure 8 Thinking.

"I define creativity as the ability to toggle between wonder and
rigour - and ultimately to create novel value."


(#89) In this Human Intelligence-focused episode, Natalie
Nixon, Creativity Strategist & President of Figure 8
Thinking, LLC, talks about Design-Thinking, Strategy and
Change-Management. Using her "3i Creativity Framework" she
outlines competing narratives for the new world ahead, and
explains why creativity should be a core competency for the
future of work.  


 


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TALKING POINTS


Why creativity should be a core competency for the future of
work.

The 3 elements (The “3i Creativity Framework”). 

Creativity as the new competitive advantage.

Hybrid Thinking in action.

“T-shaped” versus the “pi-shaped” thinker.

It’s a prerequisite for the 4th Industrial Revolution (the
one we’re in now).

The 2 competing narratives for the new world ahead.

Why creativity is the essential foundational element.

The data points that fleshed this out.

Typical questions about creativity.



 


OUR GUEST.


Natalie Nixon advises leaders on change
management at publicly traded and privately held corporations as
well as non-profits. She helps them design optimal ways to
leverage creativity, sustain innovation and achieve priority
business goals—resulting in happier customers and employees.
Natalie is a published author (Strategic Design Thinking and INC
online magazine) and a global speaker represented by the BigSpeak
speakers bureau. Her public speaking invitations have included
CUSP, Business Innovation Factory, 360 Possibles (Saint Malo,
France), Creative Mornings, TEDx Philadelphia, The Copenhagen
Institute for Interactive Design, The European Innovation Academy
(Nice, France), SEB Bank (Tallinn, Estonia), FUSE and the Mayo
Clinic’s Transform conference. She is a lecturer at the
University of Pennsylvania in social innovation and design
thinking and a Senior Advisor at Econsult Solutions. She has a
background in cultural anthropology, fashion, and service design.
She is certified as a foresight practitioner by the Institute for
the Future and in charrette facilitation by the National
Charrette Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Natalie received her PhD from the University of Westminster in
design management, and her AB (cum laude) from Vassar College in
anthropology and Africana Studies. She has a new book coming out
in mid 2020 about the new creativity Called “The Creativity
Leap”.


 


LINKS.


Consider a short MBA Express "Creativity and Innovation"
course via our AICPA Store. Also on the CGMA Store.

Read Natalie's articles on INC.com

Visit Natalie's website at www. Figure8thinking.com 



 


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