Success factors for creativity workshops in RE

In today's economy, innovation is the key factor to remain competitive. However, due to the revolutionary and disruptive nature of innovations, it is apparent that traditional requirements engineering (RE) activities alone are not sufficient in this context (even though still highly important, of course). Rather, there is a strong need to enhance traditional RE activities with creativity techniques in a product or service development process. In the last seven years, we have supported several organizations from different domains in innovation finding during the RE phase. This paper presents our experiences from the creativity workshops we applied there, and it shows how such workshops can be integrated into RE processes. In this context, we list success factors that we observed and show the key ingredients of successful creativity workshops from our experience.