Argumentative Academic Essay Report

Running head: ARGUMENTATIVE ACADEMIC ESSAY
ARGUMENTATIVE ACADEMIC ESSAY
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Introduction
Creativity, innovation and design thinking is always associated with something that is
about to be introduced. Thus these help in bringing something new. On an educational
perspective individual and collaborative creativity and innovation does not make a significant
difference but in terms of management they does make a huge difference (Camburn et al.
2017). It acts as the intellectual capital of the organization. Most of the organizations try to
secure and protect their successful achievements through creativity with financial certificates,
awards, patents and several other legal rights. Besides, the development of an individual
within the organization, the quality of research and development and the human resource
management system is totally proportional with these three factors- Creativity, innovation
and Design Thinking. Therefore it is very controversial whether these three factors are
dependent upon the individual employees only or the organizational groups are involved as
well. Under certain complex circumstances the nature of the company and the legality of the
company’s ownership helps in acknowledging the proper contribution of the individual or
groups to the company’s objectives. Although it is said that these factors are dependent or
work of individual employees only, there is no agreement to this statement from a personal
perspective.
Creativity, Innovation and Design Thinking
Creativity refers to the original ideas and wonderful imaginations that help in the
creation of something new. It is the act that helps in the transformation of these new and
imaginative ideas into reality. It helps in perceiving all the challenges and hurdles in a new
way. It helps in finding out the hidden patterns and connections between some unrelated
situations and thereafter help in the process of generation of easy solutions. Thus it involves
two processes – thinking and producing (Caniëls and Rietzschel 2015). Merely having ideas
and not acting upon them are not creativity. If the ideas are acted upon then only it becomes

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creativity. There are many beliefs that say that only the special, talented and genius people
are creative. This belief is wrong. Any persons who possess the innate potential to do
something are creative. It is a process that leads to happiness and boosts the motivation of
the individuals. A person who is creative in nature, and is creating an automated process for
his process, does not necessarily feel tired even if he stays awake the whole day. The minute
problems surrounding that person fade away while performing a creative task and hence it
increases the productivity as well. But, it must be kept in mind that the task on which the
creative work is done upon is of the individual’s interest. An individual can only be creative
on something if he has a lot of interest on that particular thing.
Innovation on the other hand refers to the implementation of new products or
improved products, services and processes that helps in the generation of values for the
organization or the society. Like creativity, innovation also leads to value creation. It refers to
a number of activities that are performed in order to uncover new and better ways to perform
things. Innovation helps in the creation of greater opportunities that are very important for
economic growth, success and survival of the business organization. It helps in development
of original ideas and optimization of operations (Gruber et al. 2015). Organizations that are
involved in innovation are able to identify new opportunities and the simplest and best
method of problem solving. Each and every individual are innovators. Several business
processes improvement, introduction of new and better products and services in the market,
increasing efficiency and increase in the profitability can only occur when there is successful
exploitation of new ideas that are very important to the business. Innovation itself is a
creative process that can be the following –
i. Improvement or replacement of certain business processes for the purpose of
increasing the profitability and efficiency.
ii. Development of entirely new and better products and services in the market in
order to meet up the rapid changes in the customers’ needs and preferences.