Organisational creativity: Building a business Ba-Haus?

Exterior of the Bauhaus building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius

This paper focuses on the systemic nature of creativity, the role of business schools in stimulating and enhancing organisational creativity across all sectors of the economy, particularly those which are not conventionally regarded as ‘creative’ industries, and concludes with a Systemic Innovation Maturity Framework. The Japanese concept of ‘ba’ represents a shared creative environment or ‘place’.

This report was written by Perspectiv’s Andy Wilkins and Clive Holtham from Bayes Business School at City University, London (formerly Cass) and published in Creative Education in October 2012.