RE: Own Thoughts

[Myron Tribus <mtribus@home.com>]

>Re: Own Thoughts
>
>Vic Forte - "Can anyone tell us if the System of Profound Knowledge gives us
>much help
>with the important issue of creativity and innovation? If so, in what way?"
>
It helps me to define several linked concepts

1. Creativity is the ability to generate options which enhance the 
possibility to achieve an objective.

2. Innovation is the process of taking a creative idea and bringing 
it to the marketplace.

3. Invention is the act of generating a device or process which is 
not obvious to most other persons.

  Does Dr.Deming's system of profound knowledge enhance these? 
Certainly it can enhance Innovation,for the innovation process must 
be carried out by teams of people.  Innovation may be driven by one 
person's beliefs, but it involves teamwork, planning, doing,checking 
and,above all,acting to secure gains.

I believe,based on my experience in managing people who were hired to 
invent, that the SoPK also helps by creating an environment conducive 
to invention.

I am less confident that it enhances creativity.  I spent many hours 
with  Dr. Laurence Kubie,the famous psychiatrist,who devoted a 
lifetime of study of creative.  (Read his book,"Neurotic Distortions 
of the Creative Process")  The result of a lifetime of study can be 
boiled down to this:  "We know many,many ways to destroy creativity. 
Schools have been doing it for a long time.  We also know some things 
to do which remove barriers.  But when it comes to the rare cases in 
which we recognize near genius, we haven't a clue."

Others have other opinions, I am sure.  But there is very little data.

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