PHL/320 (BSDS1MQK60)

Assignment Steps

Interview someone you know who is in a management role. This can be at your current place of employment or someone you know personally working in a managerial role.

Prepare a 1,050-word discussion of the interview: 

• Discuss what you discovered about contingency planning.
• Discuss how creativity and critical thinking relate to contingency planning.
• Explain how you might integrate creativity into your own planning process.
• Discuss what you learned about creativity and its relationship to the decision-making process.
• Identify the key steps that might require a contingency plan. 

On a different peace of paper answer these questions.

1. What are the three elements of creativity?

   How could you as a manager incorporate these elements into your company?

   How could you as a manager use these elements to become more creative yourself?

2. Identify an organization that you feel is “highly creative”.

   What criteria did you use to determine that the company was highly creative?

   Discuss the business advantages the company has over its competitors because of its creativity.

   Make at least one recommendation for how the company could become even more creative compared to its competitors.