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What differentiates an average conversation from a creative conversation? In this book chapter, we answer this question by looking at coherence styles of design conversations. With the help of the Coherence Style Framework (CSF), we are able to illustrate what divergent and convergent thinking on the conversational level looks like. Highly creative teamwork is represented as an alternation between local disruption (local low coherence) and global integration (global high coherence). This has implications for the current practices of idea generation of design thinking and innovation teams.
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According to the “standard definition of creativity” by Runco and Jaeger (2012), creative ideas are characterized by their novelty and their usefulness.
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Torrance (1966, p. 6) defined creativity as “a process of becoming sensitive to problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, and so on; identifying the difficulty; searching for solutions, making guesses, or formulating hypotheses about the deficiencies: testing and retesting these hypotheses and possibly modifying and retesting them; and finally communicating the results.”
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For a deeper, historical discussion see Cropley 2006.
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Menning, A., Ewald, B., Nicolai, C., Weinberg, U. (2020). Team Creativity Between Local Disruption and Global Integration. In: Meinel, C., Leifer, L. (eds) Design Thinking Research . Understanding Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28960-7_8
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