Scenarios and creativity: Thinking in new boxes

• Published in: Technological forecasting & social change Vol. 77; no. 9; pp. 1506 - 1512
• Main Authors: de Brabandere, Luc, Iny, Alan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 01.11.2010; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Boxes; Boxes (containers); Business; Creativity; Executives; Expansion; Expressway to Scenarios; Expressways; Forecasting; Impact analysis; Management theory; Manuals; Mathematical models; Perception; Prospective approach; Scenarios; Strategic planning; Studies; Prospective approach; Scenarios; Perception; Expressway to Scenarios; Creativity

To be creative and make change happen, leaders must do more than simply ‘think outside the box’, as the traditional business manuals suggest, using the popular American expression. After all, the space outside the box is infinitely expansive. Moreover, there can be no guarantee that a solution to th...