Definitions Paper

Definitions Paper

Name

University of Phoenix

OI

361

Instructor

March 21, 2011

Abstract

The term innovation, creativity, and design are frequently used in today's business world and are essential in helping businesses flourish. Along with having a variety of meanings associated with these terms innovation, creativity, and design are disciplines that span boundaries, and need to be understood in an integrated manner. Innovation a word many may hear and think change or creativity. It’s also a word that is used interchangeable with creativity and design. In management these three words are inseparable. In today American culture it is hard to find an organization that does not come up with innovative ideas that may reinvent the organization. Hospitals are finding ways to place the doctor in a room with a patient, when the doctor is out of town. It’s a monitor that allows the patient to see the doctor over a monitor screen and to check up on the patient in real time as if the physician was in the room. This is just one example of innovation.

This paper will give reasonable definitions of creativity, innovation, and design means in the business environment.

Innovation can be defined as a "frame of mind" and the act of developing an idea in its physical form such as a new product, service or process. It means finding solutions to problems. It can be categorized as a product innovation, things an organization offers, process innovation, and the way in which they are created and delivered. It consists of two components: implementation and creativity. Implementation is putting ideas into practice and is made up of three aspects: idea selection, development, and commercialization.

Creativity is an essential part of innovation and is the act of developing an idea, thinking differently, being different, thinking laterally, making new connections and development of an idea. Creativity, whether applied for individual purposes or within a business...