ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on how teams trained to behave creatively tackle real-life organizational tasks. The cases were developed from our records within the so-called Creativity Challenge. The Creativity Challenge operated in the 1990s as one among a series of options for our graduate students. Peter would be provided with a problem-solving team whose members would have to produce ideas as part of their assessed project on creativity. The first day of the assignment saw Peter Casey and Rupert Jorissen spend a few hours at the Business School explaining the project. Projects are still under way within the company, so must draw a veil over the most promising ideas. An increasingly important aspect of life within international organizations is finding ways of managing multicultural teams. These may need particular support to work through the first stages of team development. One of the features of creative teams is the development of a vision.