Creativity in Product
Innovation
Creativity in Product
Innovation describes a remarkable new technique for improving the creativity process
in product design. Certain 'regularities' in product development are identifiable,
objectively verifiable and consistent for almost any kind of product. These regularities
are described by the authors as Creativity Templates. This book describes the theory and
implementation of these templates, showing how they can be used to enhance the creative
process and thus enable people to be more productive and focused. Representing the
culmination of years of research on the topic of creativity in marketing, the Creativity
Templates approach has been recognised as a breakthrough in such journals as Science,
Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Technological
Forecasting and Social Change. It has been successfully implemented through workshops
in international companies including Philips Consumer Electronics, Ford Motor Co., Ogilvy
& Mather Worldwide, Kodak, Coca-Cola and many others.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Codes of product
revolution - a source for ideation
2. Revisiting the view of
creativity
3. A review of popular
creativity enhancement methods
4. The attribute dependency
template
5. The forecasting matrix
6. The replacement template
7. The displacement template
8. The component control
template
9. Templates in advertising
10. Further background to the
template theory
11. Demarcating the
creativity templates
12. The primacy of templates
in success and failure of products
224 pages