10月, 2009

Over the years, as an entrepreneur I’ve done quite well because my companies were always on the leading edge of innovation. Many people look at what we had accomplished and they were blown away, but I must tell you much of the innovation came from our customers, our franchisees, our team members, our vendors, and our employees. Interestingly enough, it was always the new guy, or the newcomer who came up with the best ideas.

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It has always been said that; “loose lips sink ships,” and so, there are things that you need to keep close to the vest. One of those things you need to be careful about is with whom you discuss your innovations, inventions, or new concepts. Even if you have a close friend, or coworker you need to be very careful.

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Manifesting is a part of the law of attraction. Manifesting is the process of helping your thoughts, ideas and desires become reality. When you manifest, you are drawing positive things into your life. You are sending out positive vibes to the universe and drawing them back to you.

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Creative thinking is usually the reason behind the success of most any business venture. Maintaining the ability to produce innovative ideas is crucial if a business plans to grow and expand. Read more to see what you can do to help stimulate your creativity when your creative juices seemingly have frozen up on you.

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When you’re confronted with a problem what is your immediate reaction? Do you want to find a solution? Do you ask someone else to help you resolve the issue? Or do you just wait and hope that it will go away? Whichever is your approach to problem solving (there are lots more by the way!) you have learned it through experience or someone has taught you!

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If you notice, you may observe that most of our nonintellectual discussions and conflicts are wars between tradition and innovation. Here you may find a person trying to convince others that one should stick with the legacies: experienced, practices, and patterns – not necessarily using the spoken words, but some contextual jargon; while the other person is contradicting. If only innovation and creativity can make a difference. Or in other words, you learn as you go. The same quarrel exists in our software engineering field, at least in our local industry as I see.

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If you truly want to innovate, invent, or to keep your creative juices flowing then you need to consider cross pollination. You need to consider how important it is to straddle categories, and borrow from one industry to use in another. Many innovators and designers borrow from nature when designing products, cars, or tools.

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There are two lines of thinking in innovation as to where to get innovative products from. The traditional belief was that you should survey all your customers and ask them what they want, and they would tell you and that you would produce it, and they would buy it. Unfortunately, this methodology doesn’t always work.

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Most corporations want to innovate and spend money on research and development, realizing that they will make money in the long run if they continue to press forward. It seems these days that all of our consumer products are getting more and more complicated with more and more features. Of course, the reality is sometimes it is important to de-innovate products, and simplify them so we can lower the cost and please the most amount of people.

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Research and development departments and innovation teams need to be constantly coming up with new ideas. In fact, to solve a given problem they may need 40, 50, maybe even 100 ideas. Then they need to go through each one of them and get rid of the ones that don’t make sense, might cost too much money, or even take too long to implement.

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