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Innovate
In our unpredictable world, success goes to people who have a natural curiosity and are willing to experiment.
Successful innovation requires a conscious and explicit commitment, and inevitably involves risk. Here are a few tips that will help to hone your capability in this area.
• Question all the time. Don't be impressed by precedent. Regularly ask yourself how else could you do this, or what you would do differently if you could start again from scratch.
• Learn from the experience of others. Draw on their intuition and common sense. Encourage ideas from others. Benchmark other departments, other organisations.
• Disagree constructively: innovation depends on relentless self-questioning and the pursuit of continual improvement.
• Network voraciously: share your ideas, and see what reaction you get. Many problems are best solved by interdisciplinary thinking.
• Remember that, sometimes, getting the wrong answer is as enlightening as getting the right answer. Many of the greatest inventions were accidental - the Post-it-note, for example.
• Be willing to change your mind: holding stubbornly to a point of view is not a sign of strength. The best innovators are prepared to admit that they are wrong sometimes.
• ...and relax: take advantage of coffee breaks, cab rides and other opportunities for a few minutes' downtime. Innovative ideas often come in places and at times that can surprise us.
Pete : "SO NEXT TERM'S LECTURES START AT 9AM."
Valerie : "...I HATE 9AM LECTURES. EVERYONE ON OUR COURSE DOES."
Pete : "YEAH, WELL, US LECTURERS DON'T LIKE THEM EITHER!"
Valerie raised up her glasses.
Valerie : "SO WHY DO WE DO THEM THEN? ACCORDING TO A STUDENT UNION POLL...
ATTENDANCE WOULD DOUBLE IF LECTURE HOURS WERE SIMPLY SHIFTED FROM 9AM TO 5PM TO ONE HOUR LATER, TO 10AM-6PM."
Pete : "WOW! THAT'S ACTUALLY VERY SIGNIFICANT!"
Valerie : "SEE YOU NEXT TERM THEN. NOT AT 9AM."
In our unpredictable world, success goes to people who have a natural curiosity and are willing to experiment.
Successful innovation requires a conscious and explicit commitment, and inevitably involves risk. Here are a few tips that will help to hone your capability in this area.
• Question all the time. Don't be impressed by precedent. Regularly ask yourself how else could you do this, or what you would do differently if you could start again from scratch.
• Learn from the experience of others. Draw on their intuition and common sense. Encourage ideas from others. Benchmark other departments, other organisations.
• Disagree constructively: innovation depends on relentless self-questioning and the pursuit of continual improvement.
• Network voraciously: share your ideas, and see what reaction you get. Many problems are best solved by interdisciplinary thinking.
• Remember that, sometimes, getting the wrong answer is as enlightening as getting the right answer. Many of the greatest inventions were accidental - the Post-it-note, for example.
• Be willing to change your mind: holding stubbornly to a point of view is not a sign of strength. The best innovators are prepared to admit that they are wrong sometimes.
• ...and relax: take advantage of coffee breaks, cab rides and other opportunities for a few minutes' downtime. Innovative ideas often come in places and at times that can surprise us.
Pete : "SO NEXT TERM'S LECTURES START AT 9AM."
Valerie : "...I HATE 9AM LECTURES. EVERYONE ON OUR COURSE DOES."
Pete : "YEAH, WELL, US LECTURERS DON'T LIKE THEM EITHER!"
Valerie raised up her glasses.
Valerie : "SO WHY DO WE DO THEM THEN? ACCORDING TO A STUDENT UNION POLL...
ATTENDANCE WOULD DOUBLE IF LECTURE HOURS WERE SIMPLY SHIFTED FROM 9AM TO 5PM TO ONE HOUR LATER, TO 10AM-6PM."
Pete : "WOW! THAT'S ACTUALLY VERY SIGNIFICANT!"
Valerie : "SEE YOU NEXT TERM THEN. NOT AT 9AM."
