Business Topic (Innovation).pptVIP

BEC Vantage Innovation Innovation  How creative are you? If you can connect all the circles below with the minimum number of straight lines without lifting your pen from the paper. How creative are you? Well, if you can make it with 1.More than 5 lines = Are you sure you wouldn’t be happier in a less intellectually demanding job, like public relations? 2.5 lines = No prizes for creativity. The average six year old could have come up with this solution. 3.4 lines = You show promise. You’ve obviously questioned at least one wrong assumption about the task. 4.3 lines = Well done! You’ve successfully bent the rules without breaking them, and that’s what rules are for. 5. Fewer than 3 lines = Congratulations! You must be cheating. Cheating is highly creative. Creativity How many persons in the following picture? Pillars or wall? When do you say…? 1.Believe me, we’ve really done our homework on this one. You mean, we have found out everything we need to know to prepare for this. 2.Look, let’s not make a mountain out of a molehill. You mean, let’s not make this seem more important/serious than it is. 3.Well, we’ll just have to make the best of a bad job. You mean, it’s a bad situation and we can’t change it, so we must do what we can. 4.Well, we’ll just have to make do, won’t we? You mean, because we haven’t got what we really want/need, we must manage as well as we can with what we’ve got. Innovation Problem solving process Condition for innovation Idea killers Outsourcing Problem solving process Define the basic problem Reformulate the problem in different ways Break the problem down into parts Brainstorm the possible solutions Brainstorm as many ideas as you can in 10m Eliminate non-starters (screening ideas) Select the best possible solution. (set criteria, mark them) Implement your idea Condition of Innovation Be a risk-taker, those who are reluctant to take risks don’t innovate Be illogical, an over-reliance on logic kills off ideas before they