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Unit Coordinator

Dr Philip Ely

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Acknowledgement to Country
Week 3: Opportunity Identification and the Creative
Pursuit of Ideas
(Chapter 5 of Frederick et al, 2019)

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What is creativity?

Oxford English Dictionary (2023 ) “creativity” accessed from:


https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/44075?redirectedFrom=creativi
ty&
What it is
to create
(verb)
Oxford English Dictionary (2023 ) “create” accessed from
https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/44061?rskey=hJcCY9&result=
2&isAdvanced=false#eid
Creativity – from the literature

…the production of something that is


both new and valued…
Neihart, M. (1998). “Creativity, the arts, and madness”. Roeper Review, 21(1), 47-50.

…the balanced unfolding and


converging of experience…
Nyström, H. (1993). “Creativity and entrepreneurship”. Creativity and Innovation Management, 2(4), 237-
242.
Citing Richard Florida
“Human creativity [is] the
key factor in our economy
and society…we now have
an economy fuelled by
human creativity.
Creativity…is now the
decisive source of
competitive advantage”
Florida, R (2004) The Rise of the Creative Class: And how
it’s transforming work, leisure, community and everyday
life. New York: Basic Books, p.5
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Image of Mould (2018) Against Creativity published by Verso
Books, available from
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2852-against-creativity
CREATIVITY TO BUILD-MEASURE-LEARN
Can you spot the man’s head?

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https://www.lifehack.org/512552/can-you-see-the-man-in-the-coffee-beans-most-people-cant
True opportunity spotters identify
opportunities laterally (through intuition
LATERAL OR and gut feeling), but they analyse them
VERTICAL? vertically (through testing and
commercialisation processes).
A Child’s
Comprehend
Approach: Why
the Problem
or Why Not

THINKING Break Down the


Think Externally
OUTSIDE Issues

THE BOX!
Forget
Reframe the
Contemporary
Concepts
Solutions
LEFT or RIGHT?
Either/Or:
black or white?

The Need for


Probabilities
MINDSETS Security

Stereotyping
IDENTIFYING
OPPORTUNITIES
30 Years of Research
 Culture that contains symbolic
rules
 Person who brings novelty
 Field of experts

Csikszentmihalyi (1997) p.6


Confirmation Bias

Optimism Bias

BIASES Hindsight Bias

Planning Fallacy

Sunk Cost Fallacy


MANAGERIAL SHORT- FINANCIAL UNIQUENESS
SIGHTEDNESS MISUNDERSTANDING

PITFALLS
LEGAL/REGULATORY LACK OF EXPERTISE
SOURCES of OPPORTUNITY

• Societal

Trend •
Marketplace
Technology

s •

Economic
Political
• Environmental
SOURCES of OPPORTUNITY
MAPPING A VALUE PROPOSITION
Pains + Features = Value Proposition

Explicit Needs

Implicit Needs
REALISING
OUR VALUE
• Convenience/Performance
• Cost/Price
• Design/Risk
SOURCES OF
• Experience
VALUE
• New Market
• Personalisation
• Social Status
A VALUE …a simple way to understand your
PROPOSITION customers’ pains and needs, and to
CANVAS design products that they actually want.
Sketchnoting

https://youtu.be/39Xq4tSQ31A
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