Ideawork

Idea Work is a research project that sets out to understand and professionalise the way ideas are created, combined, prioritised and implemented in organisations.

Arne Carlsen and Jane Dutton have co-edited a book on generativity in qualitative research.

Idea Work researchers with chapter in new Project Management Handbook.

Daring to imagine and the power of ideas

Wonder involves a main component of feeling startled and one of incipient interest and search. It is the first of all passions, the precondition for people’s deep interest in anything beyond self and a primary engine of imagination, appreciation and empathy at work.

Read about Idea Work in recent articles in newspapers and magazines!

Getting physical is about idea work mediated by the interaction between the body and the physical world – gesturing, sketching, touching objects, making objects, visualizing, etc.

When Snøhetta works at its best – what are they doing? A forthcoming book on creative drivers and idea work in the world famous architect firm gives you a view into some of their practices.

Eivind Winther in SpareBank 1 Gruppen presented the Idea Work collaboration on EDB Business Partners finance seminar 8th of September 2010.

- After we started our systematic efforts of enhancing creativity in oil exploration, the discovery rate on the Norwegian shelf has increased.

The prestigious Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Award for 2009 has been awarded to Idea Work researchers Kjersti Bjørkeng, SINTEF, and Stewart Clegg and Tyrone Pitsis, University of Technology, Sydney.

Stepping back from immersion in data and analysis of ideas of par- ticulars to big picture thinking (whether strategies, holistic explana- tions or cultural-historical tales); letting go of details and seeking the simplifying core.

Research is also Idea work. Arne Carlsen and Jane Dutton are currently co-editing a book on generativity in qualitative research.

In a feature article in Aftenposten 30.08.2010 Ragner Rosness and Ranveig Kviseth Tinmannsvik argue for the need of exploring positive deviances in order to better understand organizations.

The ability to install an atmosphere of play and laughter to build social ties, relax constraints in thinking and encourage original combinations of knowledge.

New web-based multimedia tool for idea work released

Idea Work articles published in Management Learning and Society and Business Review.

The 2010 Academy of Management, OLKC 2010, EGOS 2010 and SCOS 2010 have all accepted idea work papers for their conferences this summer.

Idea Work showcased at Norway’s most important meeting place for industry-oriented research.

Five papers accepted to the 2009 EGOS Colloquium in Barcelona, along with the session “Idea Work: Creating and becoming in everyday organizational practice”

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“Idea Work: Creating and becoming in everyday organizational practice”

Published 22nd of May, 2009

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