Innovation is Abnormal Behaviour! 27th October 2010
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit" Helen Keller.
Innovation is both Fun and Hard Work
This is the third in our series of BLOGs about the nature of Innovation
Innovation is Abnormal Behaviour!
Innovation is fun - it can be a return to childish exploration, naivety and fresh thinking. You can have a serious purpose without having a serious face (even funeral directors can have fun with innovation1). Innovation can be analytical - uncovering, selecting, synthesising ideas. This can be demanding - but satisfying.
Innovation is therefore both fun and hard work. But whichever it is, it is valuable to individuals and organisations. .
Innovation Delivers!
We are all constantly looking for
- New ideas
- Bright ideas
- Big ideas
- Different ideas
- The right idea
- The right name
- The magic solution
- The silver bullet
- Ideas that make you go wow!
and Innovation can give you all these, by putting elements together in a different way to meet a need.
Innovation helps you look at problems in a new or a different way, aids you in seeing possibilities that others do not, stimulating insights and originality.
Innovation is about a passion for improvement - business wants better products sooner and the public sector wants better services sooner - both of them want them at lower cost!
So what do you want to be?
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Now? |
Living in an Innovation Future |
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Trapped by precedent |
Free to imagine |
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Locked into incremental change |
Enjoying non-linear growth or success |
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Using only familiar ideas and solutions |
Developing breakthrough ideas and solutions |
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Following fixed career paths |
Living with unlimited possibility |
