Innovativeness

By stepping outside of the comfort zone, you can break down the old box of knowledge, explore the unknown, connect the wide dots to create new ideas continuously.

We are living in a complex world where inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many issues that need to be solved. 

To overcome challenges and solve problems innovatively, do not let knowledge deter your imagination, stifle creativity. Keep your minds flowing to release the positive energy, out of this comes a beautiful thing – abundant ideas and fresh insight.

Ideas shine through the darkness; innovation is the light brightens the surroundings: Creativity is a phenomenon, creativity is all around us, we just need to get connected with it. Creativity is imaginative, expressive, productive, inventive, innovative, or emergent. A creative person needs to absorb the new knowledge across the disciplinary boundary in order to connect the wide dots and work out with more ideas consciously or subconsciously. The higher the level at which we are engaged and stimulated to imagine, enriching the thinking and contributing to a fabulously rich output, the more likely we can generate novel ideas.

A creative team should have a cognitive difference and diversified worldview, collaborate, clarify, and build on each other's ideas, as collective creativity is only achieved through the diversity of thoughts. Silos have been broken down by reducing business tensions, frictions, and conflicts that arise, to streamline information, idea flows. The harmonized digital workplace is in which collaboration and sharing are the norms, learning and creativity are encouraged, ideas are abundant and well-managed to achieve their business value.

Loose ideas spread on the ground; logic is the thread to weave them into precious gems: Creativity is a synthesis of imagination with which you create new ideas and the concreteness with which you can transform ideas into valuable work. Creativity, or broadly, intelligence generates lots of ideas, but it takes logic to recognize, filter, or deal with them, and implement them successfully. Having many ideas is not dangerous if they are submitted with the best of intentions, having too much information may cause a problem if it is not processed effectively. The basic goal of idea evaluation should be to quickly and thoughtfully weed out potential initiatives that are not a good fit for your particular business, so you can focus on the good ideas and commercialize its potential business values.

From idea generation to innovation implementation - plan, do, check, act is not the scenario made of linear steps, but an iterative continuum in the digital era. If idea creation is more art than science, and then idea implementation is more science than art. By leveraging digital platforms and technologies, businesses can be more effective in managing innovative ideas, relying less on silo functions, and more on cross-functional collaboration and innovation. When complex ideas can be visualized effectively, individual contributors can for the first time see where they fit in the universe of work and it can bring a great sense of purpose to their work.

Innovation leaders can break down barriers; set fair principles for idea generation and implementation: Forward-looking organizations work proactively to dismantle business bureaucracy, harnessing different experiences, perspectives and ideas of people to bridge differences, They evolve customers, partners and variety of stakeholders in the conversations to generate great ideas for innovative problem-solving Creative leaders are able to deal with opposing views, cultures, constraints and competition; shape fresh insight, integrate good ideas into alternative solutions to complex problems, to unleash enormous potential of their organization.

Vision sparks the imagination and opens the mind to new concepts and ideas. It is a clear choice among different scenarios that advocates future trends and great ideas. Innovation leaders have their special eyes to recognize innovators for generating and implementing novel ideas. Select for empowerment, select for curiosity, love the clash of ideas, love listening, love learning, etc. They present a collaborative spirit to initiate digital dialogues, brainstorm ideas, turn around tough situations, and skillfully assign their talent, resource and time carefully to solve problems that really matter innovatively.

Creativity is a complex, multifaceted thought process such as association, perspective-shifting, opposites, etc. There is both magic and logic in the idea brainstorming process. By stepping outside of the comfort zone, you can break down the old box of knowledge, explore the unknown, connect the wide dots to create new ideas continuously. Collectively, great ideas are shared, communicated, and selected to achieve their value for advancing humanity.

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