Basadur Applied Innovation

Government efficiency without cutting jobs?

Can the government become more efficient without job cuts? True innovation requires more than cost-cutting—it’s about engaging employees in all four thinking styles: generating, conceptualizing, optimizing, and implementing. Leaders who balance these styles can redefine processes and drive impactful change. Learn how a culture of innovation goes beyond short-term fixes to deliver sustainable solutions that leapfrog old routines.

👉 Explore how to transform challenges into opportunities with the right thinking styles.

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Government efficiency without cutting jobs? - Basadur Discover how Basadur Applied Innovation empowers government efficiency without cutting jobs. By leveraging all four thinking styles—generation, conceptualization, optimization, and implementation—leaders can foster a culture of innovation that transcends routine cost-cutting.

Creativity as a Process

Studying and discussing creativity can be difficult and complex, because no single, agreed-upon definition of this quality exists. Researchers have taken many different approaches to its study. Under the identification approach, researchers have developed cognitive and aptitude tests to identify more or less creative people. Others have studied personal characteristics trying to connect personality traits to creative behavior. Another approach is to study organizational or environmental factors that are likely to inhibit or nurture creative performance (such as goals, incentives, motivation, and freedom from time pressure). A third approach involves deliberate improvement: can we train people and make them “more creative” or better able to use their innate creativity. In a fourth approach, researchers have focused on evaluating and assessing the product of creative efforts: What makes a more or less creative product, whether it is a car or a story? They have established criteria to make the assessment.

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What Do You Do When You Don’t Know What To Do Next?

When the horrific September 11, 2001 disaster occurred, a global aerospace and airplane engineering company found itself especially hard hit. In October, the top seven senior leaders met at their monthly roundtable meeting. Instead of trying to come up with a plan, the CEO did something very unusual, something that most CEOs would never do. He admitted to his team, “I don’t know what to do next.” His team immediately jumped in to help. They had been trained in the Simplexity creative problem solving process and rather than “hunker down” into a defensive shell, they decided to deliberately use innovation to rebuild their business on their own terms.

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