Innovation
does not come about purely by accident. It requires an understanding about us
and the talent that comes with the innovation team. In the fifth edition of
ThinkInnovation, we will explore these concepts, and in knowing, I hope you
become more aware of your strengths and the ways you may go about leveraging
them for innovation in your organisation.
Many
idea generating devices are capable of producing many creative ideas for the
organisation. However, the disconnection is in the organisation’s inability to
harness sufficient amount of means and resources to support and fund all these
ideas.
Therefore,
organisations must choose to support opportunities that could be executed
within their means in order to place themselves in an advantageous position in
their marketplace.
In
this section of the newsletter, the 2(3) Idea Selection Method is shared. This
is a post-ideation technique for selecting suitable ideas that could be turned
into quick-win projects.
The
method categorises ideas according to their potential attractiveness to the
audience of a target market, and prioritises the attractive ideas along the
capabilities of the organisation in bringing them to its designated market.....
To
create opportunities for greater professional development and personal growth,
facilitators could consider including reflective practice in their facilitative
processes.
According
to Bolton (2010), to generate developmental insights, one needs to reflectively
and reflexively examine his facilitative practice by ‘paying critical attention
to the practical values and theories which inform' him of his facultative
actions.
Instead
of formal education or training, the facilitator acquires and enlarges his
knowledge, skills, emotional and experience bases in facilitation by staying in
action – that is by…..
Some
people are more capable of generating a class of ideas and find it easier to
navigate through a particular phase of the Innovation Process. We call this
inclination our ‘Innovation Attitude’, and there are four of such attitudes.
Successful
innovation teams have a healthy balance of these four innovation attitudes
amongst its members. This way, each member, whose innovation attitude is needed
the most at a particular stage of developing an innovation, could be called to
come forward to lead the teams and seek the breakthroughs they need to move the
project forward.
When
someone was asked what innovation is, we typically would hear people describing
it as something unique, breaking through, and valuable.
However,
there are over 60 different ways of defining innovation, and together, they
share six broad themes.
Innovation:
· Could
occur anywhere in our society, in any part of our organisations, and even in
our daily lives. As long as there is a problem that does not go away, an
unusual approach will be needed to change the situation
· May
come in different shapes and sizes to bridge different expectation and
performance gaps so that stakeholders could receive greater returns in the
things they want accomplished with what they have
· Requires
different types of social actors who would use personal techniques, methods and
processes to navigate the innovation through the systems
Nowadays,
more People Managers are practicing the concept of empowerment with their
employees.
Empowerment
of employees at the workplace is about providing them with opportunities to
make their own decisions with regards to their tasks.
The
three keys principles of empowerment are:
· Building
trust by sharing information with everyone so that they get a clear picture of
their organisation and its situations
· Opening
to discourses on the things that may hold themselves back from being empowered
by creating autonomy through boundaries
· Replacing
the old hierarchies with self-management so that the employees take ownership
of their own future in their organisations
Empowerment
is simply the effective use…..
Ideas
are the source of improvements, innovations and inventions. However, some ideas
may take more effort to generate, are difficult to come by, and more valuable
than others.
Here
is a simple self-assessment instrument which may help you uncover the
innovation attitude you have towards a type of ideas and a step in the
innovation process.
The
fifth edition of ThinkInnovation was created and
produced
by Anthony Mok on 31 Dec 2012.
Copyright
2012. Anthony Mok. All Rights Reserved.
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