1. Organizational Creativity and Innovation

2. Organizational Creativity “Creation of a valuable, useful new product, service, idea, procedure, or process by individuals working together in a complex social system.” Woodman, Sawyer and Griffin (1993) Group Characteristics Organizations are complex systems

3. Opposing Forces Creativity and Control can be considered opposing forces

4. Dynamic Tension Resources Need to manage the tension between Creativity and Control

5. The Model Innovation Innovation is supported when there is high congruency

7. Open or Closed

8. Product or Process

9. Incremental or Radical

10. Short or Long TermAlign innovation strategy with environment and organization

11. Environment Environment influences and is influenced by components

13. Financing

14. Economies of scale

15. Flexibility

16. Centralized/ Decentralized

17. Control

18. Responsiveness

20. Challenge

21. Involvement

22. Conflict and Debate

24. Motivation and Incentives

25. Reward creative behavior

26. Fair evaluation of work

27. Group rewards

29. Planning and budgeting

30. Flexible and loose, but maintain controlOrganization executes strategy to produce value

31. Organization 5 Levers of Control 5 Levers of Control manage the create/control tension

32. Innovation The Model

33. Questions?