Creativity Report Team13361
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The team conducted a survey to find common traits among its 5 members. They created a spreadsheet with 144 questions and found: - All 5 members had 25 traits in common related to internal factors like education and interests. - 4 members had 29 traits in common like place of birth and home ownership. - 3 members had 22 traits in common such as country of residence and family status. They summarized the findings in the spreadsheet and presentation slides.
Creativity Report Team13361
- 1. Stanford Crash Course on Creativity Assignment 1 -‐ Getting to Know You Submission Date: October 23, 2012 by Team 13361 The objective our first assignment is to find as many common traits among the 5 members of the team using any mode of communication. Team 13361 – one member left our team to join another team and we invited a new team member to join us. The 5 members of Team 13361 are Penny Mudd, USA Robin Teigland -‐ Sweden Patricia Huckabay – USA Annup Varkey – Singapore Sandy Adam – USA (Our new member) Our Process – The team communicated mainly through the Venture Lab’s Conversation application and Sandy through email. We developed a survey for each of us to respond to in the form of a spreadsheet in Google docs. The file was stored in a virtual Google drive. The rows contained the survey questions and each member filled their designated column. The listing of survey questions grew as each person contributed to the listing as they visited the spreadsheet and respond to the questions. We started with personal background items and then expanded the list by taking a look at the six factors in the Innovation Engine framework. This enabled us to further develop the list as a team and inspire more ideas for questions for the list. Each member would check the spreadsheet periodically to respond to the additional entries. By Sunday, we had a listing of 144 survey items where ● 100% of the team members have 25 survey items in common, ● 80% of the team members have 29 survey items in common and ● 60% of the team members have 22 survey items in common. We tried to summarize these first on Pinterest but had several difficulties in using the service, eg sharing the board with each other, uploading (there were serious lag issues caused by Pinterest servers), too many photos. So we went with the easier route -‐ a google doc listing them and then combined this with some slides from ppt to facilitate the visuals. In summary, we found that all members of the group had very few items in common related to the external factors of the Innovation Engine but considerably more items for the internal factors (figures 1 and 2). 1
- 2. Figure 1. Commonalities based on Internal Factors Figure 2. Commonalities based on External Factors 2
- 3. Below we provide more detail on our commonalities: All team members (100%) have the following in common: 1. All under 6 feet 2. All wear corrective lenses 3. All use a fork to eat dinner most of the time 4. All sleep less than 8 hours daily 5. All born in second half of year 6. All graduated from college 7. All have developed a new product or service 8. All have published work. 9. All have medical insurance 10. All have live outside home city 11. All like to watch ball sports 12. All are curious about creativity 13. All are polite 14. All celebrate Xmas 15. All do not participate in organized religion 16. All have access to groceries within 4 miles of their home. 17. All possess or have had a driver's license 18. No one owns a boat 19. All have at least 2 computers 20. All own a TV 21. All have close dependable friends 22. All have given to charities 23. All have endorsed a brand to someone 24. No one have been robbed at gun or knifepoint 25. No one knew what Shindogu was 4 out of 5 team members (80%) have the following in common: 1. are born in US 2. have siblings 3. are home owners 4. are non-‐smokers 5. drink coffee in the morning 6. enjoy going for walks 7. enjoy online classes 8. enjoy watching movies 9. have a front door mat 10. have at least 1 mirror at home 3
- 4. 11. do own laundry 12. are employed full time 13. have worked more than 12 hours in a day. 14. do not doodle 15. like to do experiments 16. have played a musical instrument at one time 17. prefer reading real books for pleasure over ebooks 18. have driven over the Golden Gate Bridge 19. have been or will be visiting the Eiffel Tower 20. have never been to Africa 21. have not visited the Great Wall of China 22. have joined a club 23. still keep in touch with college friends 24. use social media regularly 25. smartphone users (60% android, 10% iphone) 26. have been robbed in the past 27. have crashed a car 28. have missed a payment on time. 29. have spent over $500 for an item from a stranger through the internet. 3 out of 5 team members (60%) have the following in common: 1. live in USA 2. have worked in another country 3. are married 4. have children 5. are pet owners 6. have divorced parents at one time 7. do not live in a single family dwelling 8. have business related college education. 9. have started his/her own business 10. worked for a start-‐up 11. have suffered a long period of unemployment 12. have experienced career changes. 13. have had traffic violations in the past 14. have never been hypnotized 15. are diet conscious 16. have not been sick in the past 6 months 17. do not suffer chronic health issues. 18. have not suffered a broken bone. 19. have participated in social media 20. still keep in touch with 2ndary school friends 4
- 5. 21. still keep in touch with primary school friends 22. are not interested in politics Team Member Comments Patricia This assignment opened up the opportunity for me to discover Google’s virtual drive and shared document application. The survey list took on a life on its own as the team members contribute and enriched its content. Although the assignment was to find as many common things among the members, the differences were the most interesting. I enjoyed this assignment and the process of developing the dataset with the team. Penny The first assignment took us from the status of being total strangers to online co-‐ conspirators in about 96 hours. I was left with appreciation for how skillfully and responsibly everyone stepped up (except for one team member, who understandably played a background role due to work-‐related travel) as soon as they could clear the time. Our schedule and time zone differences were not so much of a problem as one might expect. There always seemed to be someone willing to push the effort forward on any given day. Personally, I lapsed into habits (we won’t debate good or bad here….) of jumping headlong into a project with a short deadline (not attempting to get consensus, just doing and seeing what the obstacles were) and using email like a lasso to pull in a distributed team. I made some mistakes, like going down a rabbit hole of using SW I did not know well (Pinterest) and not looking first at an important assignment requirement (the submission format for the deliverable). The team was gracious about trying to wrestle with the SW and even my missteps had some value in that they allowed us to see how we would need to react if someone gets off into the weeds again in the future. Robin This was a wonderful opportunity to start learning about education through online courses as well creativity! I enjoyed thinking about Tina’s Innovation Engine model and it was interesting to see how we found so many internal factor commonalities but so few external factor commonalities. One reason for this may be because it is easier to brainstorm about things with which you are more familiar, ie it is easier to think about my personal traits as opposed to the aspects of my external environment. In addition, I was surprised at how much time several of us spent on this assignment considering there are no formal incentives to do so. I am looking forward to continuing working with this team! Sandy Thanks to knowing Robin via Twitter, I was invited and welcomed to this team. The team I originally was put on did not participate at all this first week, despite several attempts to contact them. I was thrilled to see that they had this spreadsheet of commonalities happening and learned a lot about each of my new team members in a short time. I am really looking forward to exploring our creativity and a team and as individuals and learning from each other. 5