Tools to foster creativity with Andrew Grant (Creativity in Start-ups Series Part 2) - Episode 73

On this episode of the DevReady Podcast, Andrew and Anthony continue their conversation with Andrew Grant, Director of Tirian International Consultancy, and co-author of ‘Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can We Get it Back?' and ‘The Innovation Race’. Andrew talks about how our workplaces are not built to foster creativity and are in fact characterized by blockers. So, in order to deal with the blockers of creativity, the suspects as he calls them, he and his team developed a game, not necessarily a competitive game, but one with a theme and a metaphor that people can hide behind so that they have a safe place to talk about some of the issues they are facing. Topics Covered - Need to set up an environment that encourages creative thinking - How to use the CSI board-game and digital-game to understand creativity blockers - How to ask the right questions and find ambiguity within the questions - How to ideate, brainstorm and map out creative ideas - How to connect seemingly distant things and find solution to a wicked problem - How to figure out what works and then implement it