Q: Drawing from creative thinking and governance views, construct a reflective meaning of Creative Thinking in Governance
Creative thinking
Creative thinking involves addressing a situation, task, problem or challenge with innovative thinking or outside of the box thinking. It is the process where you look any problem/object/decision from a fresh perspective. In a classic study of creativity, Taylor (1959) proposed the existence of five typologies for creativity. These were expressive, productive, inventive, innovative, and emergenative.
Expressive creativity is the type of spontaneous creativity often seen in children and is exemplified in drawings and play. Scientists and artists illustrate productive creativity. An element of spontaneous …show more content…
Creative thinking in governance is about exploiting limitations to drive breakthrough thinking. Innovation demands exploiting limits not ignoring them (Dr. Yew Kam Keong).
Creative thinking in governance can equip the government officials or public servants with innovative approaches to face the ever-increasing challenges facing the proper public service delivery such as diffused economic and social patterns, more complex problems, blurred governance boundaries, and reduced trust in public action. Creative governance is public centered approach and if it is implemented well it helps improve decision making, reduces unintended consequences and creates satisfaction and acceptance from the public when the policy or law is …show more content…
Captain Morte utilized the microfinance concept that won Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. He worked to defuse tension between coalition forces led by USA who invaded Iraq in 2003 and the Iraqi people who live in the town by offering grants to help create jobs and ease poverty. By helping to build self-sustaining enterprises, thereby weaning Iraq from reliance on foreign aid and improving Iraqis’ opinion of foreign forces, Morte believed that it would bring about more lasting peace than military
Creative thinking
Creative thinking involves addressing a situation, task, problem or challenge with innovative thinking or outside of the box thinking. It is the process where you look any problem/object/decision from a fresh perspective. In a classic study of creativity, Taylor (1959) proposed the existence of five typologies for creativity. These were expressive, productive, inventive, innovative, and emergenative.
Expressive creativity is the type of spontaneous creativity often seen in children and is exemplified in drawings and play. Scientists and artists illustrate productive creativity. An element of spontaneous …show more content…
Creative thinking in governance is about exploiting limitations to drive breakthrough thinking. Innovation demands exploiting limits not ignoring them (Dr. Yew Kam Keong).
Creative thinking in governance can equip the government officials or public servants with innovative approaches to face the ever-increasing challenges facing the proper public service delivery such as diffused economic and social patterns, more complex problems, blurred governance boundaries, and reduced trust in public action. Creative governance is public centered approach and if it is implemented well it helps improve decision making, reduces unintended consequences and creates satisfaction and acceptance from the public when the policy or law is …show more content…
Captain Morte utilized the microfinance concept that won Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. He worked to defuse tension between coalition forces led by USA who invaded Iraq in 2003 and the Iraqi people who live in the town by offering grants to help create jobs and ease poverty. By helping to build self-sustaining enterprises, thereby weaning Iraq from reliance on foreign aid and improving Iraqis’ opinion of foreign forces, Morte believed that it would bring about more lasting peace than military