Students who engage with art are 30% more observant
Observation drives innovation, and according to research from Yale University, students who engaged with art presented more object findings and were more fluid and innovative in their diagnosis of challenges--30% more!
CEOs say creativity is the most essential leadership skill.
A 2010 IBM survey of 1,500 CEOs from 60 countries and 33 industries worldwide revealed that creativity — more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision — is the most essential leadership skill in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.
Creative thinkers generate more possible solutions.
Research shows that high school students given creative interventions innovated more solutions to a proposed problem than those without.
The arts spark new ways of thinking and inventing.
The arts help workers connect seemingly unrelated questions, problems, and ideas, driving innovation in the workplace.
Arts-trained innovators are 74% more insightful
The innovation outputs of teams who had arts-based training showed 111% greater insight into the challenge, a 74% greater ability to clearly identify a relevant problem, a 43% improvement in problem solving, and 68% more impact.
54% of innovators engage the arts to succeed.
Entrepreneurs producing new products engage art and design in more than half of cases.