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Creative Chaos Environment Creating Chaos Within a Structure to Inspire Creativity and Accidental Discoveries |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Inventor & Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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"Without order nothing can exist – without chaos nothing can evolve." "New ideas are not born in a conforming environment." – Roger von Oech |
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Innovation Management Team: "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something!" – Thomas Edison... More
Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements Corporate Capabilities (Water):
The Jazz of Innovation The improvisation-driven model for innovation project management doesn’t discard structure, just as there is a clear structure to good jazz. In innovation, this structure is created through roadmaps, guiding principles, business processes, systems and organizational charts... More Finding the Right Balance Between Structure and Chaos If you wish to establish an effective creative chaos environment, you must find a delicate balance between chaos and a guiding structure. You need a certain amount of chaos to be creative but not to the point that you feel overwhelmed by its amount. Too much uncertainty discourages people from mobilizing their best effort. Direction and purpose and a certain amount of structure create freedom. People feel liberated by goals and guidelines. Successful organizations must balance structure and bureaucratic processes at one extreme with the fluid creative chaos of relationships, interests and transactions, which enable it to be innovative and alive, at the other. Case in Point BP – Finding an Equilibrium Between Chaos and Order
To evolve
BP into
an
adaptive organization, one that
would be better able to survive and prosper in today's uncertain and
turbulent times,
The Way Our Mind Works Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right, and each hemisphere specializes in different functions, processes different kinds of information, and deals with different kinds of problems. The left brain works more with logic and analysis, the right works more with emotions and imagination. Intuitive, emotional, and creative work is performed by our right brain. You must divide time between the left-brain and right-brain activity to achieve better creativity results. If you keep bouncing back and forth between creative and analytical activities, you'll get a headache and won't produce your best results. Analysis, evaluation and judgment get in the way of creativity.
Accidental Discoveries Many ideas surface in the strangest ways, often when they are least expected. Sometimes they seem to pop up almost by accident. The accidental discovery is triggered by chaos and contradictions, rather than by order and logic. Cross-Pollination of Ideas Winning innovative solutions are inspired and developed in the process of cross-pollination of ideas, rather than narrowly focused search... More
The Fun Factor... Challenging Assumptions... Get Good Ideas from Everywhere... Freedom To Fail... Keeping Eyes Open for Inspiration... Discovering New Opportunities... Inspiring Accidental Discoveries... Creativity Management... Innovation-adept Culture... Case in Point IDEO... Case in Point Unilever... Case in Point Google... Case in Point Silicon Valley Firms...
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