Innovation
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The document discusses the concept of innovation, distinguishing it from creativity, and emphasizes its organizational context in bringing ideas to life. It outlines various strategies for fostering innovation, including being curious, diversifying searches for ideas, and embracing errors as opportunities for growth. Additionally, it highlights principles such as agile thinking and the importance of serendipity, slow hunches, and exaptation in the creative process.
Innovation
- 1. P r oj Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com ● Innovation! Innovation Mohammad Tawfik
- 2. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com What is innovation? ● We often use the words "creativity" and "innovation" interchangeably but we should not. Creativity is about coming up with ideas while innovation is about "bringing ideas to life." While individuals may display creativity, innovation occurs in the organizational context only, by bringing creative ideas to life. "Business Improvement Architects"
- 3. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com What is innovation? ● The term innovation derives from the Latin word innovatus, which is the noun form of innovare "to renew or change," stemming from in—"into" + novus—"new". ● Innovation generally refers to the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society. ● Innovation differs from invention or renovation in that innovation generally signifies a substantial positive change compared to incremental changes. “Wikipedia"
- 4. P r oj Innovation is the key!
- 5. P r oj Bringing creative ideas to life
- 6. P r oj WARNING! • Nothing really insures that you will get an innovative idea in any field, rather, suggestions of things that you may do can increase the possibility of getting one
- 7. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com The Idea Hunter Andy Boyton & Bill Fischer
- 8. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Idea vs Thing George Bernard Shaw “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
- 9. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Learning “There are not one but two products of the work that people do. The first is the actual thing we make or the service we provide or the process we manage. The second product, no less essential is what we learn along the way.”
- 10. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com The I-D-E-A Principles ● Be Interested not just interesting ● Diversify the hunt ● Exercise hunting for ideas ● Be Agile in hunting for ideas
- 12. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Be Interested not just interesting ● “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” - Albert Einstein ● “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” - Pablo Picasso
- 14. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Diversify the hunt ● “I almost never look to the existing discipline for new ideas.” - Jack Hughes ● “It is hardly possible to overrate the value... of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar.” - John Stuart Mill
- 16. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Exercise hunting for ideas ● “People learn by doing... and by reflecting on what they are doing. Training yourself to notice things is part of the observational platform.” ● “Writing down your thoughts and observations -and keeping them in a readily accessible place- are necessary habits of the Hunt.”
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- 18. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Be Agile in hunting for ideas ● Agile means to move quickly and lightly, Wiki.answers.com ● Agile means quick or lively, answer.ask.com
- 20. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Where Good Ideas Come From Steven Johnson
- 21. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Adjacent Possible ● Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and, occasionally, contracts) over time
- 22. P r oj Explore!
- 23. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com How to develop good ideas ● Liquid Network ● Serendipity ● Slow hunches ● Error ● Noise ● Exaptations
- 24. P r oj Network!
- 25. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Liquid Network ● Not so rigid that ideas can’t grow and develop ● Not so much space where ideas can’t reach each other. ● Free flow of ideas allows ideas to connect, grow, reconnect with others. ● Liquid networks complete ideas.
- 27. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Serendipity ● You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings serendipitously. ● Go for a walk, take a shower/bath - remove yourself from the problem ● According to NYTimes, web has pushed culture toward more serendipitous encounters.
- 28. P r oj Hunches …
- 30. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Slow Hunch ● Hunch that developed over time is more common than sudden flash of inspiration ● Have to keep hunch alive ● Keep a journal or commonplace book and review it to refresh your hunch ● Sleeping on the problem actually helps
- 32. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Error ● Spark gap telegraph led to the invention of vacuum tubes, which in turn led to computers, television, etc. ● Fleming discovered penicillin by bacteria accidentally entering his lab ● Error in reaching for a resistor led from an oscillator that recorded heartbeats to the pacemaker that regulates them
- 35. P r oj Some noise is not so bad after all …
- 36. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Noise ● Albert Einstein has been considered the patron saint of useful messiness, and once stated “The cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind; what does an empty desk sign?
- 37. P r oj I said “some” … not all!
- 39. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Exaptation ● Defined as using a feature or structure for something other than its original intended purpose. ● Ex. In Indonesia, Timothy Prestero redesigned neonatal incubators out of automobile parts because the locals had access to and knowledge of automobile engines.
- 40. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Innovation You Jeff Degraff
- 41. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Prismatic Thinking ● Colors of Innovation ● The Russian nesting Dolls ● How you innovate is what you innovate ● Create Capacity ● Avoid the negative zone
- 43. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Colors of Innovation ● Green – Create – Influential personality ● Blue – Compete – Decisive personality ● Red – Control – Careful personality ● Yellow – Collaborate – Social Personality
- 44. P r oj The Russian nesting dolls!
- 45. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com The Russian nesting dolls ● Look up, down, and around ● You, your community, and the whole world
- 46. P r oj Avoid the negative zone …
- 47. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Avoid the negative zone ● Too much of anything is bad ● Ask friends to help you out ● Think about why are you thinking this way
- 48. P r oj Empty the bag …
- 49. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com Create Capacity ● Time is limited ● Money is limited ● Brain capacity is limited ● You have to give up something to give room for new things
- 50. Innovation: What and How? Mohammad Tawfik #WikiCourses Htp://WikiCourses.WikiSpaces.com How you innovate is what you innovate ● Think through the whole picture, the colors and the nesting dolls, and change your way of thinking