Sunday, September 19, 2010

Innovation: The life blood of your business

If you run or managing a business and it around for a long time do, must spend a good portion of your time innovation. This is because in a fast-paced world where people expect better and better, and cheaper and cheaper, to face the competition is ahead innovation things.

Here are 7 ways to put new life blood in your organization through innovation.

1. Create an innovative climate.Goran Ekvall of Lund University in Sweden has defined three conditions for a climate of innovation. You are: confidence, dynamism and humor. One who was Ekvall's case studies a Swedish newspaper where the team that consistently Department work on the women's football surpassed all other teams. The reason for this? Quite simply, this group trust each other, had a high level of energy and shared a common sense of humor.

2. Developing Washing-Up creativity.The Roffey Park management come Institute most flashes of inspiration to people if you away from work and not force their conscious brain to find solutions to your problems. Coming for some ideas during the lawn mowing or take the dog for a walk or play golf or waiting for a train station. For Isaac Newton was an Apple on the head, while sitting in the garden. Archimedes was in the bath. For others it's about putting the courts; that's why Roffey Park gets these flashes of knowledge: "washing-up brush creativity".

3. Make new connections.New connections between existing features of your product or service is a popular way to innovate. Akio Morita, Chairman of Sony, said that he invented the Walkman because he listen to music on the go on between shots wanted his golf course. His team together two apparently incompatible products: a tape recorder and transistor radio.

4. Find out what people need.Need is a great incentive for innovation. Take we for example, writing paper. The Chinese paper from rags around the year 100 BC already, but since there was no need, nothing came. When it reaches Europe in the middle ages, when writing was the anger, the supply of rags and worn-out substance, which soon dried out. This is when a French naturalist, made the discovery the wasps nests made of in thin layers chew in a pulp wood dried. 100 Years was all paper with the idea of wood pulp.

5. Test, test, test product testing is the way to go most inventors and organizations about innovation. It may be not the fastest way to success, but it is often the safest. Jonas Salk, for example, he discovered the polio vaccine from spent most his time and testing and constantly figuring What did not work. Thomas Edison, inventor of the incandescent light bulb, 1300 experiments that were complete failures recorded. But he was able to go to keep because, as he said he 1300 knew types that it wanted to work.

6. Adopt and adapt.A relatively easy approach to innovation is notice to tailor how treat other problems and then your own solutions. It is known as "adapt and adopt". It is what watchmaker swatch to have when they discovered that ever more reliable their watches was, the less people required to replace. Your solution? Borrowing an idea from the world of fashion and collections, by their watches in desirable fashion accessories. Now people swatch watches not only to tell the time to buy, but because it is cool to do so.

7. Take you lessons from nature.If you want to be really inventive, you cannot beat nature. The world of nature is to use an endless supply of prototypes in our own world. Take for example Velcro. Velcro was patented by Georges de Mestral, 1950, after he from a hunting trip, the tiny overlapping hooks in tiny ridges, who had joined his clothes covered returned. De Mestral quickly recognized that here an ideal technique to attach material together. Suddenly invented a whole new way of doing things.

The history of the world is the story of innovation. Thomas Kuhn identifies a "paradigm shift" every adoption of a new innovation. Once a new innovation is accepted, the world has changed forever and can never go back to the way and that was it.

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