Sunday, March 18, 2012

Promote corporate creativity through arts

Creativity, once considered a much desired trait in arts and entertainment industry, is now of the one of the most sought out culture to develop in any industry. Companies spend millions of dollars to promote corporate culture of creativity by hiring external consultants. The importance of creativity in businesses can be judged from the following quotes of business visionaries.

"It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell." – Michael Dell

"I've always been an optimist and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place." – Bill Gates

Leaders often place a value on "thinking out of the box." But if creativity is so important why do large and small companies find difficult to promote creativity and intelligence in their organization? One reason being organizational processes are intently designed to be routine chores with very less flexibility to deviate from the standard process. This helps organization to maintain the quality standard of their product or services. However, creativity requires chaotic and flexible environment.

As it is true with any trait, the development of creativity in any business setting should be approached with conscious effort and willingness to promote such environment. You need to create an atmosphere that fosters creativity. Many organizations have enclosed cubicles, bare walls, bland conference rooms, and semi-isolated employees. How can we expect people in this environment to think creatively for our organizations?

So what can companies do to improve this most critical element called creativity? It is amazing how much can be done with a relatively small investment.

Instead of commissioning lot of resources to understand the ways of promoting creativity at workplace, corporates can do much better with far lesser resources. One such example would be to replace standard corporate posters in conference rooms, hallways and offices with beautiful oil paintings. Another good way to create creative environment is to invest in a simple sound system that plays classical music. If this is inappropriate in some work zones, designate break rooms and conference rooms for music.

The ability to think creatively should not be the sole responsibility of the leader or CEO of the business. This function could be shared by all and by doing so increase the productivity of any company. The steps listed above are simple to take and require a relatively small investment. It's vitally important to enjoy this process and let your own creativity dictate the application of these steps.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Arts and Technology

Everyone has its own style of decorating house, but only few people take interest

and put an extra effort to find what are best options available in the market.

People who has unique taste in artwork select the best and pricey canvas

paintings for their walls. Expensive art work not always looks good on the walls.

People who don’t have the inclination or taste in artwork have plenty of options

in terms of where they want to buy their masterpiece. However, it will take much

time to visit the store and sort out available patterns of canvas art, put the

options on desk, and decide on art work to buy.

Often times we dont know how important it is to put suitable wall paintings at

home. It is quite necessary to put the right objects on right walls. The right

painting at the right place not only provide satisfaction and site of relief but

also add to the visual appeal of the walls and the home.

Classic patterns of wall art prints can be better choice if you don’t have time

to choose from large collection. It is my opinion to spare some time at online

art galleries and find best available patterns. There are multiple choices we

have when it comes to selection of wall art; it can be geometric design of wall

art for kid’s room, or iconic or floral print for living room walls. You will

manage to decorate home in style different from others.

When it comes to selection of pattern which will suit your walls, then the mind

shifts again, how can we find what is the perfect combination of colors for home

decoration. This require lot of mix and match of available patterns with the wall

color. At some point it become really difficult to comprehend which art patterns

look good on which color. Make it simple, imagine that your walls are white

painted then perfect combination will be any painting with dark and bold

background. Dark and bold color painting will enhance the art work on the light

background. This is where technology comes to rescue from inherent limitation of

human mind. Without any limitation, technology can help us to visualize how the

art piece will appear when superimposed on different color walls. Match the art

color along with frame and mat designs that suits with the wall color, as it is

determining factor after applying a wall art at your home.

At Perfectbazaar.com we have developed framing module that provides customers

with the option to customize the appearance of their wall art. Customers can

choose from a wide variety of high-quality frames, mats, and finishes. You can

even customize the frames and mats that match the color of home wall. These

services produce beautiful, well-crafted framed art pieces at significant savings

over local frame shops.