Read or study on innovation, as well as interesting is fascinating. There are many books by people like Clayton M. Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen, all researchers in the field of innovation that explain in simple way that innovation works and how entrepreneurs should be aware that if they want to survive in an increasingly competitive world.
Many think and believe that what makes it different from the innovative minds of mere mortals is genetics: these people were born not only intelligent but who have great skills to create.
These are people who use more right brain and so have a more intuitive way of thinking and unconventional. At least that’s what they think the researchers already mentioned in the book The Innovator’s DNA (something like the Innovator’s DNA).
In the book, these scholars argue, based on empirical studies, creative features that are not gifts of nature, and that these can be developed.
Many of us have thought and life, but now he says that is no more and no less than three prestigious universities with wing head of Harvard University, the Marriott School and Insead.
These education centers concluded that 25% to 40% of our creative ability is genetically determined, the rest follow a script or basic pattern: first understand that feature (the creative process) and then develop it with practice and and gain confidence in one’s ability to create.
If innovation can be developed, how is it done? After studying 500 people really innovative compared with about 5 000 executives, researchers identified five elements that make up the real creative. These are the conclusions.
1. Partnership capacity: This is considered the main characteristic of innovators. Associations happen when the brain tries to synthesize information in sequence, giving logic and coherence.
That is what helps in the discovery of connections between seemingly isolated issues. The innovative breaks usually happen to intercept various fields and disciplines, the authors write of the aforementioned book.
The bind and blend innovative ideas where others see no relationship. This is what some researchers call the “Medici Effect” in reference to the explosion of creativity and culture lived in Florence during the Renaissance.
The Medici family, met many artists, painters, poets, musicians, sculptors, architects, the Italian city saw the opening of one of the most innovative phases in the history of mankind.
The artists took advantage of the knowledge created by others and the result was the intellectual and artistic exuberance of the era. The other four qualities of the trigger innovative thinking to increase their repertoire of associations, where new ideas emerge.
2. Questioning: The innovators are almost always those who will not let a question go blank. Always question everything. Usually they challenge the status quo and do not accept easy formulas.
One of his favorite phrases is: What would happen if you change this? People ask questions and to understand how things really are, why they are a certain way and how are you may be challenged and subverted.
Your questions provoke a riot of thoughts and insights that lead to collective society for innovation.
3. Note: A guard is always innovative things happening around him. Observers are retailers, and everyone is under scrutiny: consumers, products, services, technologies, structures, processes.
The observations serve as fuel for an explosion of ideas and new parameters for making things. Steve Jobs created the first operating system for its Macintosh after a visit to the innovation of the Xerox.
4. Networking: Innovative spend much of their time and energy trying out ideas by a wide range of contacts with different perspectives and cultural backgrounds.
But that is not conventional contact such as Facebook, no, these people talk preferably with who do not agree on anything. More than social contacts, they want fresh ideas.
Looking daring thoughts, minds and concepts rebels completely out of step with the established patterns.
5. Experimentation: Finally, innovators are constantly experimenting. They live and explore the world of sensory and intellectual way. They are not convicted of anything and are always airing new hypotheses.
Are all users. Visit new places, investigate new ideas, communicate and experience, make up the DNA of the innovative, the map to generate innovative business ideas.