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November 7, 2007
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Can Johnny Innovate? |
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Innovation consultant and occasional blogger Jim Belfiore is teasing us with “Why Johnny Can’t Innovate – Introductory Article.” In this post, Jim promises to deliver us some interesting insights into the challenges that keep engineers and designers from become successful practitioners of repeatable innovation methods. Six key factors are introduced:
These are certainly some interesting problems to consider. I have had the pleasure of knowing Jim for five years now, and we regularly talk about what we are seeing in the landscape of commercial innovation practice. So, it is with that understanding of Jim’s experience that I am expecting his series to be very interesting, and I am waiting for the first installment. Of course, thinking about these issues makes me want to ask all of you a question. What do you see as the greatest innovation challenge that you see on a regular basis? Let’s hear it. Inquiring minds want to know. [Crossposted from www.InnovatingToWin.com] |
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| posted by Navneet Bhushan [ http://innovationcrafting.blogspot.com ] | November 27, 2007 at 3:14 am |
Hi Jim, I recently attended an UNCONFERENCE at Bangalore. The same question was during Knowledge Cafe as "what comes in the way of idea generation". My response was the following - posted on MY BLOG as well. Just reiterating below "My mind looked at the root of an idea - it has to be some sort of thought - which itself comes to us through some experience. Well once experiences (which can be problems, crisis, normal behaviour, something unique or extraordinary etc) becomes thoughts they can develop into ideas. Obviously it is not about ideas in the mind - the whole problem of Intellectual property is related to so called idea-expression dichotomy - ideas need to be articulated and should be expressed to be considered generated. People mentioned the past experience in an enterprise inhibits people to express ideas again - the psychological safety is an issue most of the enterprises. However to my mind it is really following two issues 1. There are not enough varied experiences for people to have richness of understanding of reality 2. There is not enough imagination if you have experiences to link one experience with another to generate thoughts that become an idea and then get articulated" Other responses are at Murali's Blog |
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| posted by Prakash [ http://trizit.blogspot.com ] | November 29, 2007 at 11:53 am |
James, I'm working as an "Innovation Enabler". I do agree with all those points mentioned by Jim and by Navneet (I was part of his "coffee table"). However there are some points I think I would re-emphasize. - Lack of vision - Lack of experimental attitude - What Is In It For Me attitude My experience in working as an enabler for a Knowledge Based company (IT), I see there are some contextual aspects. People believe they are not paid to do something more than what the customer asked for. Encouraging "let us experiment" attitude is important. Thanks Prakash |
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