Creativity - Good for your business & your team.

Creativity - Good for your business, Good for your team and Good for you.

By Simon Banks.  Director of Visual Funk.

Most organisations say they value creativity and innovation. At a time where traditional business models and the landscape they are operating are constantly changing, they know it's important for growth. The Australian government recognises the importance of creativity through its Department of Innovation.

However, for many organisations, the reality of making it happen seems to be much harder to implement than first realised. I was meeting with a large financial organisation last year who had listed Innovation as one of their key values and as a driver of their people and organisation. When I asked what they did to foster and develop this creativity and innovation, the reply was "well, we don't really do anything". In a paper published recently by the Australian Business Foundation, Graham Hubbard, of Adelaide University, noted that official figures suggest only 35 per cent of Australian businesses say they innovate at all.

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