Blogging Innovation » The Innovation Gap – Leaders versus Teams. It strikes me regularly that senior executives of many firms underestimate the insights and abilities of their companies. I guess that many of us grow up with a backward-looking preference. We prefer to remember how things were “when we were there” and expect those attributes and features to remain the same. For most of us, the people we worked with and the companies we worked for are still locked in the past, unbending and unchanging. I’m stealing a bit from Seth Godin’s recent post about “senior management“. His point, and mine, aren’t that senior managers are myopic or uninspired, although that’s certainly possible.
It’s more that they have a vision but often aren’t confident that the organization can achieve the vision without painful change. Most large organizations are built to optimize a set of predictable processes which support and maintain a given set of products or services. One reason to avoid innovation is this concept of “brittleness”. Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement | Six Sigma IQ - IQPC. NogH: THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY (Kurato: Entrepreneurship: A contemporary Approach)) 2003. It is important to recognize the role of creativity in the innovative process. Creativity is the generation of ideas that result in the improved efficiency or effectiveness of a system.(3) There are two important aspects of creativity: process and people.
The people are the resources that determine the solution. The process remains the same, The process is goal-oriented; it is designed to attain a solution to a problem. but the approach used by the people will vary. For example, sometimes they will adapt a solution, and at other times they will formulate a highly innovative solution.(4) Table 2.1 percents a comparison of these two approaches. Creativity is a process that can be developed and improved.
Everyone is creative to some degree. There are four phases or steps in the creative process. We shall examine this four-step process using the most typical order of development. There are a number of ways to develop a creative mind. 1. (Enmglewood Cliffs, NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1983). 1. 1. 1. OVO | Innovation Services. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Blogging Innovation » Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010. By Braden Kelley After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010: Mitch DitkoffMitch Ditkoff is the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions and the author of “Awake at the Wheel”, as well as the very popular Heart of Innovation blog. .Jeffrey PhillipsJeffrey Phillips is a senior leader at OVO Innovation.
OVO works with large distributed organizations to build innovation teams, processes and capabilities. Jeffrey is the author of “Make us more Innovative”, and innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com. Hutch Carpenter is the Vice President of Product at Spigit. Special GiftAs promised, I would like to give you all a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire in advance of its October 5, 2010 hardcover launch date. Paul SloanePaul Sloane writes, speaks and leads workshops on creativity, innovation and leadership.
ORGANIZING CREATIVITY » Scrivener — A perfect program for dissertation writing. I have already recommended Scrivener in the references of “Organizing Creativity”, but writing my dissertation thesis with it has led me to recommend it once more: It is simply an awesome, awesome, really awesome program. Note: It’s now available as Version 2.x and still the best tool I know for writing (and the posting is still up-to-date). No kidding — I wrote “Organizing Creativity” with it, which was over 400 pages long, had 138.105 words and 785.500 characters, and it was still very easy to find the thread or specific spots where I wanted to change something. Now my dissertation thesis has 45.531 words and 288.429 characters and still isn’t finished — and I just cannot cope with the love for this program.
First, let’s give a quick overview of what Scrivener looks like: The typical interface of Scrivener. Very organized and a pleasure to use. I’d like to stress a few of the great functions of Scrivener for thesis writing: Organization Binder You know the “Outline View” in Word? Split View.