Learn six important rules on how organizations can use creativity and innovation to boost performance. Nancy Napier, professor of strategy and executive director of the Centre for Creativity and Innovation in the College of Business and Economics, shares insight gained from her research into that question in this week’s Beyond the Blue faculty podcast “Effective [...]
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Beyond the Blue Podcast: Effective Use of Creativity and Innovation with Nancy Napier
January 4, 2012 – 4:48 pm
My New Idea Spot…
June 8, 2011 – 11:41 am
Welcome to a new idea meeting spot – a place to talk about creativity in unexpected places. We’ll try to come up with ideas and musings that might help organizations and individuals who are relentless learners, want to experience MORE aha moments, and constantly improve performance.
I often have ideas that are not fully formed [...]
Creative Organizations Share Common Ground..
January 26, 2010 – 3:34 pm
Whether on the football field, in a boardroom or backstage, highly successful, creative organizations tend to behave alike. In business professor Nancy Napier’s most recent book, The Creative Discipline: Mastering the Art and Science of Innovation, she closes in on how and why. Read full article as featured in Boise State’s Winter 2010 Explore Magazine.
“Creativity in Unexpected Places”
December 1, 2009 – 1:53 pm
As part of Boise State Radio’s outreach to listeners around the state, Nancy Napier, College of Business and Economics, spoke about “Creativity in Unexpected Places” to listeners of the radio program Idaho Business Matters in Ketchum.
A National Creative Campus??
October 20, 2009 – 4:47 pm
Check out The Curb Center at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University has been at the forefront of the national conversation and has recently launched its own Creative Campus initiative which seeks to place creativity at the center of campus life – integrating art, media, design and creative expression into the curriculum; transforming campus spaces through public art [...]
“Why should students have less information available to them about creativity and the arts than they do about beer drinking and sports? Perhaps the time has come to see how we measure up.”
October 20, 2009 – 4:19 pm
The Creative Campus: Who’s No. 1?
By STEVEN J. TEPPER
I have not, nor has anyone as far as I know, ever tried to measure the creative environment of American colleges. At least in terms of direct measures, I remain agnostic on the question of how creative we are within the walls of academe. But I do [...]
Gang of 6++
October 7, 2009 – 2:04 pm
By happenstance and then by design, the Centre for Creativity and Innovation began working with a group of high-performing (measured objectively), highly creative (and recognized by others), diverse organizations based in Boise. As many of us know from living in Boise, Idaho, it’s one of America’s “best cities” – to start a business, for high [...]
WaterCooler Internship Application Deadline
September 29, 2009 – 2:10 pm
[ November 16, 2009; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Deadline to turn in your application for the WaterCooler internship is Monday, Nov. 16th, 2009
German Students Visit Boise State to Learn How the U.S. Does Business
September 29, 2009 – 11:25 am
Twelve Master of Science in Real Estate Management students from Dresden, Germany, just wrapped up a weeklong residency in Boise to learn about commercial real estate development in the United States. The third annual event was presented by Boise State’s Centre for Creativity & Innovation in the College of Business and Economics, in cooperation with [...]
Internship at the WaterCooler in Boise
September 29, 2009 – 11:00 am
Brand new “Creative Economy Assistant” internship opportunity at the WaterCooler in cooperation with BSU’s Centre for Creativity & Innovation. See announcement for details and contact information.