Innovation

 

Innovation Process

The Jazz of Innovation

Encourage Improvisation within a Guiding Structure

 

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Vadim Kotelnikov

By: Vadim Kotelnikov

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The Tao of the Jazz of Innovation

  1. YIN (passive, accepting side). Honor the structure: align creative activities with strategic direction, roadmaps, guiding principles, and organizational charts that provide both the structure and the basis for creative insights.

  2. YANG (active, aggressive side). Embrace creative chaos: practice hands-off management, create cross-functional innovation teams, cross-pollinate, experiment, allow the freedom to fail and try again.

Innovation Jazz

11 Practice Tips

 

Innovation

6 Barriers To Creative Thinking and Innovation

Innovation Management

Managing Creativity

Idea Management

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and IP Management

The Jazz of Innovation

Creative Chaos Environment

Experimentation

Freedom to Fail

Turning Failures To Opportunities

The Fun Factor

Innovation-friendly Organization

Corporate Innovation System

Intellectual Cross-pollination

Managing Innovation by Cross-functional Teams

Innovation-adept Culture

Inspiring Culture

Leading Innovation

Guiding Principles To Liberate Employees from the Fear of Trying New Things

The Jazz of Innovation

To jazz up your ability to innovate, turn to jazz – create a clear guiding structure, establish a creative chaos environment within this structure to liberate people and trigger accidental discoveries, and encourage improvisation. The structure, as chords do in jazz, serves as a basis for improvisation, experimentations, discoveries and innovation.

Yin and Yang of Value Innovation

 

 Case in Point  Silicon Valley

In Silicon Valley, companies challenge the status quo and encourage creative out-of-the-box thinking mixed with pragmatic business judgment... More

The "Inherent Sloppiness" of Innovation

Tom Peters8 researched many innovative companies and had been impressed in his researches by the "inherent sloppiness" of innovation. The "messy world", or the "creative chaos environment", is its "given precondition". The necessary solution has three parts, each one leading on to the next:

  1. Experimentation

  2. Champions

  3. Decentralized bands.

Management's task is to generate the right climate for creativity, experimentation, and individualism. This climate requires managers to take advantage of that "inherent sloppiness" of innovation – swimming upstream against the innovation myths.

Finding the Right Balance Between Structure and Chaos

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, purpose, and the right amount of structure create freedom. People feel liberated by goals and guidelines... More

 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,

John Browne decided to raise the creative tension. He established the preconditions necessary for creating such tension and deliberately moved the organization to a situation that was at the edge of chaos. That is, the point at which a natural equilibrium is found between chaos and order, comparable to the conditions in the evolving natural world... More

 Case in Point  Aetna Insurance

Many corporations are now working with the arts community.

Aetna Insurance brought in jazz bassist Michael Gold and his ensemble to teach improvisation. The theory is that kind reactive thinking can help employees handle competition and conflict.

The JAZZ of INNOVATION (Ten3 Mini-course)

How To Prevent Innovation: 10 Tips

  • Establish a "30-minute rule": for the first 30 minutes after an idea is expressed only negative comments can be made... More

 

 
 
 
 

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