New Idea Generation and Individual Motivation： A Conceptual Framework

The adoption of specific idea management programs is becoming a strategic asset for organizations, as they are increasingly trying to adopt specific organizational solutions to detect, fertilize, evaluate, and promote new idea generation within and across their boundaries. The centrality of the ideas generation is linked to its vital characteristic of being the main source for new products, services, processes, and drivers of change. This paper copes with the controversial role of the general organizational setting and closely focuses on the rewards mechanisms that could further nurture creativity. By formulating a set of propositions, the paper submits that the understanding of the motivational drivers and the organizational settings is paramount to distill the links between idea generation and incentive structures. This paper aims also to critically analyze and assess the impact of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on idea generation both at an individual and team level, and develop a framework within which it explores the necessary change to be adopted by firms in managing the idea generation. What is new to the field is the recognition of the impact of the individual locus of control on creative performance. In this vein, the paper sees its ultimate aim in uncovering the dynamics of individual and collective motivation related to creativity, considered as the main source for innovation. The paper concludes that new ideas could be nurtured through the adoption of routine system aligned with the companies＇ human resource management policy.

Intra-Organizational Social Media and Employee Idea Generation:Analysis based on the Spanning-Relevance Framework

Intra-organizational social media platforms are expected to help build a flexible corporate stage that facilitates employees'communication and leverages creative idea generation.However,whether and how these systems can expedite the creativity of employees remains unclear.This paper attempts to address the impacts of employees'social relationships on intra-organizational social media on their idea generation quantity and quality.Drawn upon the extant literature in the fields of information systems and organizational behavior,a theoretical model is postulated on the basis of analyzing the attributes of social ties and exchanged information content in light of a two-dimensional framework that juxtaposes boundary spanning and work relevance.The model is empirically tested using data obtained from two internal application systems of a large telecommunications company.Test results validate that employees'online social relationships with different attributes are discriminably associated with their group identification and proactive creativity.Meanwhile,proactive creativity and group identification both show the positive impacts on idea generation quantity,whereas only proactive creativity has a significant positive impact on idea generation quality.These findings contribute to the literature on intra-organizational social media and employee idea generation,by uncovering the links among employees'online social relationships,mental processes,and idea generation.

Workshop design for enhancing the appropriateness of idea generation using analogical thinking

As technologies advance and replace human labor in a variety of settings,we focus our attention on human creativity for generating new ideas.Business organizations,more than ever,recognize that they need employees who think creatively to maintain their competitive edge.Nonetheless,there is a lack of research assessing new ideas and influential factors in generating innovative ideas.The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence the creation of innovative ideas.We conducted two different types of workshops with 22 subjects and 23 subjects each.In the first workshop,subjects were asked to generate new business ideas through analogical thinking.As a result,half of the participants generated appropriate ideas,and three influential factors were determined:categorization skill,deliberation,and trial and error.The second workshop was designed to facilitate participants to enhance these three factors.As a result,70%of the participants could generate appropriate ideas.By identifying influential factors,this paper suggests a procedure for designing an innovationworkshop that enables the creation of appropriate ideas.

SYSTEMATIC METHOD TO GENERATE NEW IDEAS IN FUZZY FRONT END USING TRIZ

The obstacle for idea generation in fuzzy front end （FFE） is difficult to apply knowledge in different fields for designers. Theory of inventive problem solving TRIZ and computer-aided innovation systems （CAIs） which are TRIZ-base software systems with a knowledge base provide a framework for knowledge application in different fields. The major methods in TRIZ are selected, which have four types. The problems to be solved for each method are summarized and mapping from the problems to the methods is given. Systematic method with eight paths to integrate the methods and problems is formed. A case study shows the idea generation in FFE using the integrated method step by step.

Design by Analogy:Achieving More Patentable Ideas from One Creative Design

A patent is a kind of technical document to protect intellectual property for individuals or enterprises. Patentable idea generation is a crucial step for patent application and analogy is confirmed to be an effective technique to inspire creative ideas. Analogy?based design usually starts from representation of an analogy source and is followed by the retrieval of appropriate analogs, mapping of design knowledge and adaptation of target solution. To diffuse one core idea into other new contexts and achieve more patentable ideas, this paper mainly centered on the first two stages of analogy?based design and proposed a patentable ideation framework. The analogical information of the source system, including source design problems and solution, was mined comprehensively through International Patent Classification analysis and represented in the form of function, behavior and structure. Three heuristics were suggested for searching the set of candidate target systems with a similar design problem, where the source design could be transferred. To systematize the process of source representation, analogs retrieval, idea transfer, and solution generation, an ideation model was put forward. Finally, the bladeless fan was selected as a source design to illustrate the application of this work. The design output shows that the representation and heuristics are beneficial, and this systematic ideation method can help the engineer or designer enhance creativity and discover more patentable opportunities.