Creative Methods for Innovations: Practical Workshop with In-group Tasks by Tomáš Sadílek

Many workshops about Innovations during Innovation Week 2024 were focused on the utilization of AI in the process of Innovation development. To complete this technical perspective students could choose an interactive workshop entitled Creative Methods for Innovations: Practical Workshop with In-group Tasks prepared by the Department of International Business.

The workshop was held by Tomáš Sadílek. In small groups, participants practised selected creative techniques for finding ideas for innovations, such as brainwriting and scenario planning, synectics, and six thinking hats. Students aimed to use these techniques to look for possible ideas of how to innovate products and services.

Ing. Mgr. Tomáš Sadílek, Ph.D., has been working at the Prague University of Economics and Business since 2015 (full-time since 2018.) Prior to joining the university, he worked as a sales representative and sales engineer at ŽDB Wire Mill and Mitsubishi Electric Europe. He focuses on the issues of consumer behaviour, retailing and social and sustainable entrepreneurship, which are devoted to research and teaching in Czech and English programs. He has been working as a visiting professor at partner universities abroad (USA, China, France, Italy, Israel, Austria, Germany, Spain, Sweden). Tomáš is a supervisor of qualification theses focused on the issue of consumer behaviour in various applications and on the issue of social and sustainable busines.