Description
Current thinking about how to improve strategic planning (now upgraded to strategic thinking) and decision-making by managers at all levels is to employ some aspect of information systems technology. Although this approach has worked well for most organisations, chief executives are now asking their managers to do what they do best but to do it better. But how? Future thinking about improving strategic thinking and decision making involves integrating creativity with the latest in information systems. Hence, the power of the computer can be an important means to assist managers in doing what they do better when employing a creative computer software approach. Initially, the text looks at a number of areas that are impacted by creativity, with special emphasis on creative computer software. Management-decision making is examined from a problem-finding or a forward-looking viewpoint that can benefit from utilising creative computer software. This software is useful for organising ideas, but is also useful in getting managers involved in networking ideas in different locations of a company. But more importantly, this software centres on the generation of new ideas. To demonstrate the generation of these ideas, the final part of the text gives a number of real-world applications of creative computer software. Particular emphasis is placed on Idea Fisher 4.0, an effective software package for generating new products and services.
