Innovation is commonly misunderstood as creativity. And creativity is widely misunderstood as being free, crazy and wild. So, for many people, innovation and discipline are conflicting concepts.
The fact is innovation and discipline are closely related. Innovation is about realization or implementation of new ideas that result in business value to people. For business, innovations must result in profits for the company. Realization of an ideas, innovation, is a very disciplined process.
Even for the ideas generation phase of an innovation process, in Innovation by Chance or by Design, I have presented methods for systematically generating ideas.
Someone uses the 'T' shape to describe innovation or design. You need to be broad when generating ideas or looking for solutions, but need to switch to disciplined and focused execution in the implementation and commercialization.
Without the discipline, great music would just remain in the domain of random noises.
14 December 2007
28 November 2007
A or B or Both
In western decision making, we are trained to come out with a list of options, say A, B, C .... and then to pick the best one based on some criteria.
In Eastern thinking, in the case of two extreme options, say, A & B, we have the co-existence of both A & B as the concept of Yin-Yang. The answer is not A or B, but the balance of A & B. We want to the have the optimum balance of A & B and depending on the situations, we may want to have more of A, less of B and in other situations, more of B and less of A. We have the ability to keep the 2 options alive and be able to wisely apply them to the issues that arises.
Having A & B together does not mean a compromise position. To me, compromise is always a bad outcome. Consider the dispute and settlement of 2 parties to a compromise. Each one felt he has given away 50% and are not truly happy.
Having an apparent conflict of factors A or B is a contradiction in TRIZ thinking method and there are ways to break the contradiction so as to have the best of both factors A & B. That is the breakthrough thinking that we need.
For more details see Yin-Yang Thinking Framework - Innovative and Critical.
Read about BVITS and TRIZ to see how to have the best of both worlds.
In Eastern thinking, in the case of two extreme options, say, A & B, we have the co-existence of both A & B as the concept of Yin-Yang. The answer is not A or B, but the balance of A & B. We want to the have the optimum balance of A & B and depending on the situations, we may want to have more of A, less of B and in other situations, more of B and less of A. We have the ability to keep the 2 options alive and be able to wisely apply them to the issues that arises.
Having A & B together does not mean a compromise position. To me, compromise is always a bad outcome. Consider the dispute and settlement of 2 parties to a compromise. Each one felt he has given away 50% and are not truly happy.
Having an apparent conflict of factors A or B is a contradiction in TRIZ thinking method and there are ways to break the contradiction so as to have the best of both factors A & B. That is the breakthrough thinking that we need.
For more details see Yin-Yang Thinking Framework - Innovative and Critical.
Read about BVITS and TRIZ to see how to have the best of both worlds.
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