Go look at the agenda of every CEO out there. One thing that underlines their agenda is “Innovation”. I will not be surprised if every fortune 1000 organization has a set of dedicated people focusing on Innovation.
Here are five simple ways to remember stages of innovation.
Imagination: Imagination is core to innovation. Without imagination, there is no creativity and without creativity, there is no mixing up of things leading to new things.
Insight: Insights are the founding pieces of innovation. I personally think one cannot just get up and run around shouting “Eureka!!!” without insights. That’s exactly founders of Apple, Google, facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have in common. They all had worked on the early bits of these phenomena which gave them insights.
Ideas: Any thought can be an idea. When you apply insights and imagination, creative thoughts emerge. These are ideas.
Implementation: I call every idea as a “Day Dream”. Without an idea being implemented it is simply a vaporware. The famous saying of Thomas Edison “Genius is 1 % inspiration and 99 %perspiration” underscores this.
Impact: Without any doubt, every implemented idea is an innovation. However, the impact determines whether yours will be called as innovation or something else. Like: Improvement, enhancement, new feature, trend setting, breakthrough etc.
Whenever you have to think, talk and do innovation, think of these 5 Eye’s (I’s) of Innovation…
Here are five simple ways to remember stages of innovation.
Imagination: Imagination is core to innovation. Without imagination, there is no creativity and without creativity, there is no mixing up of things leading to new things.
Insight: Insights are the founding pieces of innovation. I personally think one cannot just get up and run around shouting “Eureka!!!” without insights. That’s exactly founders of Apple, Google, facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have in common. They all had worked on the early bits of these phenomena which gave them insights.
Ideas: Any thought can be an idea. When you apply insights and imagination, creative thoughts emerge. These are ideas.
Implementation: I call every idea as a “Day Dream”. Without an idea being implemented it is simply a vaporware. The famous saying of Thomas Edison “Genius is 1 % inspiration and 99 %perspiration” underscores this.
Impact: Without any doubt, every implemented idea is an innovation. However, the impact determines whether yours will be called as innovation or something else. Like: Improvement, enhancement, new feature, trend setting, breakthrough etc.
Whenever you have to think, talk and do innovation, think of these 5 Eye’s (I’s) of Innovation…
Happy Innovating...
Great post Kumar :)
ReplyDeleteHow effective are the first 2 eyes in a service industry?
What about the last eye "Impact"? impact for the service industry?