The Creative Process
FOR EFFECTIVE CREATIVE THINKING, CRITICAL THINKING, DESIGN THINKING & INNOVATION
Why Design Thinking Fails (Keynote by Andrew Grant – Innoday Stockholm)
The Creative Process: The 7 Creative & Critical Thinking Rescue Strategies
The Creative Process program consists of the following modules:
Hot Topic: Navigating an AI-Dominated Future with Critical Thinking
The AI Critical Thinking Lab: The “Why” of Individual Skill Survival & Reclaiming Cognitive Agency
In an era of “cheap intelligence,” the primary risk to the modern professional is no longer technical failure, but Cognitive Atrophy. This specialized lab serves as a provocative call to action for individuals to move beyond the “Validation Trap”—the dangerous plateau where human contribution is reduced to merely proofreading machine outputs. Participants are provided with an essential roadmap: a critical thinking model and tools for maintaining cognitive agency and strategic value. By shifting from passive validators to proactive Idea Architects, professionals learn to lead with the abstract reasoning, ethical judgment, and contextual nuance that AI cannot replicate, ensuring their expertise remains indispensable in an automated world.
– An Essential Masterclass for professionals needing to future-proof their roles amidst digital disruption.
Repurposing AI from a “Creative Killer” into a High-Performance Collaborator. (Article | Video | more about our AI offerings)
The JPMorgan Chase Case Study: The “How” of Organizational Change through Critical Thinking
Overview: This Harvard Business School case study JPMorgan Chase: Leadership in the Age of GenAI, provides a deep dive analysis of the transition to generative AI within a global workforce of 200,000+. By positioning critical thinking skills as the core of the implementation strategy, the study demonstrates how structured frameworks ensure technological adoption is matched by rigorous strategic oversight. It serves as a high-stakes blueprint for navigating the move from localized experimentation to enterprise-wide integration, ensuring human-led innovation remains the central driver of organizational success.
– An Essential Masterclass extension for organizations navigating the complexities of a digital transition.
Dive deeper and integrate this case study with our Innovation Suite and Ambidextrous Leadership models,
Full Workshop: How to come up with better ideas and solutions faster
Master the creative-critical interplay to future-proof your skills by blending strategic innovation with design thinking to reclaim cognitive agency in an AI-driven world. Built on a robust, proven Design Thinking model, this comprehensive workshop delivers paired applied capabilities across two specialized modules: The Creative Challenge and The Critical Thinking Lab (Rescue Strategies). This program provides a provocative roadmap to reclaim original thought and includes an optional AI masterclass, transforming artificial intelligence from a “Creative Killer” into a high-octane strategic co-pilot. By mastering these innovative problem-solving methodologies, leaders and teams will develop the essential human-led ingenuity required to thrive and lead in an increasingly complex future.
1: Creative Thinking Rescue Strategies –Better Ideas Faster!
We need creative thinking to generate unique ideas. Creative thinkers will learn to challenge dogma and construct unusual elements based on Divergent Thinking. This session covers personal creativity to redesign your brain.
Enquire & Explore Process
- Divergent thinking to access all parts of your brain (left & right, front & back, thinking fast & slow, processing), the power of ideation, questioning, and harnessing ambiguous thinking.
- By exploring the importance of both divergent and convergent thinking, it is possible to see situations differently and solve complex puzzles.
2: Critical Thinking Rescue Strategies – Better Solutions Faster!
Critical Thinking is a key follow up from Creative Thinking to complete the model and ensure strategic results. Critical Thinking seeks to assess the worth or validity from the new ‘creative’ idea. Critical thinking is the thinking we do when we judge & need to apply ideas. It is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving & implementing the creative ideas. This version of the full CSI2 workshop looks specifically at the right side of the SID model to explore using critical thinking skills.
Solve & Apply Process
- Critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it.
- Critical thinkers rigorously question ideas and assumptions rather than accepting them at face value.
- This session will enable participants to determine whether the ideas, arguments and findings represent the entire picture. Participants will also be open to finding that won’t work.
3: Implications & Applications: Business facilitation with case study
Try & Apply:
P&G case study. Practice using the creative thinking and critical thinking methods and our strategies for innovative development model to solve a seemingly impossible “wicked” problem.
Validated through real-world application, this model and these tools are designed for immediate implementation against any emerging challenge. Our ‘Teach and Learn, then Try and Apply’ methodology ensures that participants move beyond theory to deliver practical solutions for current workplace demands, providing a repeatable framework for sustained success
AI and Creative Thinking: Learn when, (if) and how to use AI during the design thinking process.
AI will play a dynamic and collaborative role in Tirian’s creative design thinking workshops. Rather than replacing human ingenuity, our programs are designed to strategically integrate AI as a powerful co-pilot in the creative process. Participants will learn how to leverage AI to accelerate insights, uncover hidden patterns, and expand ideation, all while remaining actively engaged as the essential drivers of creativity. This approach ensures that AI enhances-rather than automates-human creative thinking, empowering individuals and teams to harness both technological and human strengths for breakthrough innovation. (read more)
REC TIME
1/2-1 day
REC SIZE
7-50
PLATFORMS
Keynote, Workshop, Online, Virtual, Self-led
The Creative Process Collaborator Canvas (with Design Thinking tools)
This online canvas comes with complete instructions, videos, and steps for any leader to run the program’s core elements independently with a small team. The boards ensure a quick way to start conservations and develop faster solutions.
