Creativity & structure are not mutually exclusive – We associate creativity with the right side of our brain and logic or structure with the left side of our brains.
Even at their mightiest, Japanese banks were not known for creativity in structuring loans.
Instead, attention is paid to the systems of influence, partnership, power, funding, and reception that surround creativity — the social structures, in other words, that enable managers to reap the fruits of creative labor.
Meyer and Ekblom (2012) concluded, after a short discussion, that the SFF facilitated structured creativity.
They concluded that the framework was clearly expressed, facilitated structured creativity, and was seemingly quite practically applicable (Meyer and Ekblom 2012).
That takes a lot of hard work and creativity, particularly in structuring new types of business models; leveraging complicated open-source licenses; and tweaking traditional enterprise-sales practices to fit an open-source product, as we discussed in TechCrunch last year.
There are no rules for termite mound fashion, just raw creativity and earthy structures built by weirdly sentient insects.
Design management is a business discipline that uses project management, design, strategy, and supply chain techniques to control a creative process, support a culture of creativity, and build a structure and organisation for design.
So having structure with creativity sounds like an oxymoron.
These findings have led researchers to hypothesize a hierarchical structure of creativity across disciplines [42], which echoes the notions of "paradigmatic" (i.e., a fundamental model of events) versus "revolutionary" (i.e., rejection of doctrines) approaches as applied to the sciences [44].
Mednick (1962; see also Wallach & Kogan, 1965) proposed that associative ability lies at the heart of creativity and that the structure and strength of participants' associative hierarchies impact individual differences in creativity.
