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DATA4900 Innovation and Creativity in Business Analytics - Kaplan Business School
Assessment - Reflective Portfolio
Individual Reflection and Analysis
Task
• Reflect on the role of creativity and data in problem solving
• Conduct a survey on your creativity style
• Reflect on how your creativity style (as assessed by yourself and others) affects your decision making
Assessment Instructions
Answer the below questions with reference to your own experience, materials from the course and at least 5 sources (especially for 1 and 2):
1. Creativity: What is creativity and what does it mean to you? Do you think it is a skill you are born with or it can be developed? (100 words)
2. Data analytics: Do you believe data and data analytics can enhance creativity and reduce bias in decision-making? Justify your opinion with reference to research. (200 words)
3. Your creativity style: Design a survey around your creativity style and preferences and based on ten questions addressing the below issues from Weeks 1-3:
• Which stage in the creative process you like best/ are best at.
• Which four roles in problem solving are aligned to you. Which you feel you need to improve on.
• Whether you believe you have a fixed or growth mindset and in what situations you have these.
• How open to diverse ideas you think you are and how often you go out seeking and trying to understand other diverse view-points.
• What is your process is for solving problems in your personal and professional life.
• How has moving to a different country affected your creativity ability and how do emotions affect your creative ability. (10 questions)
Once you have designed your survey (in order)
1) Answer the questions yourself (do not change your answer later) (300 words)
2) Ask the questions of a family member, friend or colleague (about you) and document their answers (300 words)
4. Reflecting: Reflect on a recent problem you have solve personally or professionally.
• How do you think your creativity style as assessed by you, your family and friends affected your solution to this problem?
• Did you use a formal or informal framework? If you had used the framework from Week 2 to address this problem would your solution differ? Briefly consider the stages. (500 words)
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