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Complexity and complicatedness are fundamentally different. While complicated challenges can be solved analytically, complex problems require creative, non-linear approaches. Using the Cynefin framework, companies can identify the nature of challenges. By involving stakeholders, utilizing existing resources, and initiating small, monitored projects, companies can overcome complex challenges.

With Sensemaker^®, an open-ended online survey tool, companies can find creative ways to engage employees. The tool combines stories and statistical data, offering valuable insights into the lived reality of employees. This basis allows for the development of creative solutions that are based on the actual needs and challenges of the company.

Successful workshop facilitation requires openness to results, broad participation, space for creativity, and appropriate to-dos. Openness enables new perspectives, participation fosters engagement, creativity allows for innovative solutions, and appropriate to-dos facilitate implementation.

Sensemaker^® is an innovative tool for fostering creativity that combines the expressiveness of individual narratives with the objectivity of statistical analysis. By collecting narratives about everyday experiences and evaluating them in a structured way, it makes the collective knowledge and experience of an organization accessible. This helps companies identify obstacles and opportunities, develop solutions, and monitor changes.

Innovation requires an agile culture. Companies should have the courage to launch small initiatives based on insights gleaned from employee narratives. These narratives help to understand the current cultural landscape and develop concrete measures. There is no need to feel pressured to achieve a grand slam. Gradual changes lead to success.

To foster creativity within a company, more than just creativity techniques are needed. Crucial is an understanding of the fundamentals of creativity, the innovation process, and the targeted selection of methods and tips. Relating it to practice, for example through real-world projects, increases the learning effect and facilitates the transfer into everyday life.

Online innovation workshops work effectively despite initial skepticism. The right tools (Zoom, whiteboards), small teams, and high interactivity are important. Online workshops offer new opportunities, such as including remote colleagues in brainstorming. Team spirit can also develop online, which is essential for later implementation.

Creative problem-solving is crucial in complex, contradictory, or unfamiliar situations. It enables the development of innovative solutions when analytical approaches fail. Companies should therefore foster the creativity of their employees through training in order to adapt to the increasing challenges in a constantly changing world.

Finding creativity doesn't happen through random associations. Rather, targeted measures are necessary, such as the use of triggers, the formation of diverse teams, flexible room design, and the breaking down of problems. In this way, entrenched thought patterns can be broken and original ideas generated.