Skill at discovering new ideas, and delivering them, may be one of the most important practical job skills, in today’s and tomorrow’s job market. Creativity is an acquired skill, one that improves with practice. This course aims to empower individuals who believe they have lost their innate creativity, because they, their employers or teachers prefer the three R's: replication, repetition and rote, to innovation. We show how to re-ignite rusty creative powers. During this course, you will learn proven tools, frameworks and concepts useful for discovery– generating an endless stream of new ideas implementing at least some of those ideas with skill and persistence, based on books and articles written by the instructors. In the first part of the course, you will learn a proven structured method for generating and implementing world-changing ideas known as ‘Zoom in, Zoom out, Zoom in’ that makes creativity more accessible to everyone. In the following weeks, you will learn practical proven tools useful for delivering ideas by employing the basic principles of business and management. You will practice the method, use it to tackle challenging real-world needs and produce a 2-3 minutes video presenting your idea. Course Learning Outcomes On successfully completing this four-week course, you will be able to: - Manage a process to generate an unending stream of creative ideas - Lead a process of innovation and implement ideas through all phases from discovery to delivery. - Apply creativity to a wide range of strategic management issues. - Solve problems with a high degree of innovation, creative thinking and risk taking. - Use and apply proven structured method for generating and implementing world-changing ideas known as ‘Zoom in, Zoom out, Zoom in’. - Develop and implement an innovation in your own practice. - Identify new and unfamiliar challenges and reflect on these challenges from a creative point of view, action they require and service they provide. - Demonstrate creative problem solving skills for defining, structuring and solving real world operations management problems.
NT
This course is very helpful in one's quest to be more creative. The ZiZoZi method is very practical.
DF
Great information, given over in an easy to digest and interesting way.
RM
This is the best course to understand how to generate creative ideas. Helpful both at personal and professional front.
IR
Highly informative and creative. It is a mind opening course into looking at the the world with more possibilities.
SM
Excellent course with relevant support material. Tests and tasks are important to consolidate knowledge.
VS
The course is over loaded with extremely long videos. Otherwise it is an excellent course.
HC
it is very useful for me to know how i can be focus in or out, somehow i develop my skills to be creative thank you very much.Best regards
CT
Although some aspects were repetitive, I do enjoy learning from the many stories of creative problem solving.
GC
thank you, Coursera I have learnt how to come up with ideas on how to start a business
OI
It was educative and impactful, I learnt a lot about cracking the creativity code.
SR
The lectures were very interesting and full of valuable information. I tried another creativity course and preferred this approach much more. I would recommend this course to anybody.
SD
I'm so far very impressed with this course series and I'm so excited to dicover
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This course has inspired me greatly and filled me with the energy I needed! I look forward to the rest of the course!
Toda raba Prof. Maital!!
Seems like all "creative" courses are alike, and this one is no different:
Be creative! Break the rules! Exercise your creativity! *Observe!
And a bunch of case studies and examples of other people being creative.
Bam! I just saved you few hours of a boring mumbling in the videos.
The lectures were very interesting and full of valuable information. I tried another creativity course and preferred this approach much more. I would recommend this course to anybody.
The content is really an interesting topic that I'm sure a lot of learners with enjoy. However, the way it is presented needs a lot of work. First, the slides are not masterfully made; proper word count and transitions are not applied. Second, the length of the lessons are not conducive to learning, it needs to be trimmed to shorter lessons or even be cut. Third, it is repetitive and there's too much focus on the unnecessary, the lecture needs to be reviewed. Cracking the creativity code is an interesting topic. However, the lessons were not presented creatively enough.
This course "talks" about a really important subject. - that is probably one of its key benefits.
I got really passionate and worked hard on the theme, and after completing I felt that It did not gave or matched the expectations on the course name/subject .
Benefits:
1)Important theme ( within business context) discussed with good videos and references
2)Historical perspective on Creativity is sound
3)Prof. Shlomo Maital is a warm, highly informed and passionate person about the subject.
4)The course in week 2 and 3 makes you think on your one key creativity processes
And it almost stops there since the purpose of the course gets flawed by the lack of requirements in the peer review, supporting materials and forum "health" that is why the course talks does fail in training/ teaching.
Key points to not advice this course - at least in the paid version - see until n.5
1) Lack of support materials
2) Support based on the ZIZOZI book to be bought outside of the course cost
3)Reading of the ZIZOZI book in the context of the course ( with some answers to the quizzes being in the book and not in the course material)
4) Dive into very interesting methods made only superficially ( Da Vinci Method, IDEO pex) with needs to be explained further.
5) Complete or near complete lack of requirements for the classification of the peer review, making it very flawed ( see the definition of scalability per example and how to rank it)
6) Forum use and reply almost near nullness
I do expect this course to be revised deeply in its execution. ( See per example Agile from Darden to benchmark).
I highly recommend taking Coursera courses from Technion. The teacher, Shlomo Maital, is a professor at a world class university that helps students think creatively. I also recommend the next classes in this Creativity segment, which help students create a business plan and get personal insights and professional training.
Dr. Maital, thank you, thank you very much for helping me and helping the world to have a better lives, for teaching us to have empathy and to think on others living do not matter the race, the continent or the country. I am now learning the ZIZOZI system, and would recommend it to my sons or to everybody.
Great course! I did the 'informal' version, without assignments. Schlomo is a very creative person, who tries to make us more creative as well. Thanks for all the background information! I can see now that our traditional education system might not be the best way to learn..
Really excellent Course with the great educators. There's a lot that can be learned in this course and applicate in everyday life, especially if you are teacher who transferred knowledge to students.
Creatively inspiring, great content to reflect and practice upon and great innovation spark, thanks to Prof. Shlomo Maital & Arie Ruttenberg for delivering this creative experience and knowledge.
Très bon cadre théorique, bons outils opérationnels, excellent prof ! Un cours indispensable pour le développement personnel et la performance collective des équipes.
Great course, I recommend it 100%, provided the knowledge I was looking for the systematic method to find and implement my ideas in the field of nanoscience.
Really inspirational and motivative way of instruction. I hope that after completing the course, I can transfer what I've learnt into reality.
This is the best course to understand how to generate creative ideas. Helpful both at personal and professional front.
Highly informative and creative. It is a mind opening course into looking at the the world with more possibilities.
The creative process has always intrigued me, and this course will help get beyond any stuckness you may feel.
Excellent course with relevant support material. Tests and tasks are important to consolidate knowledge.
thanks for the Teacher.. he is really good at it.. and he conveyed his passion to us, successfully
one of the best course that i have studied in the field of Entrepreneurship.
Great information, given over in an easy to digest and interesting way.