Innovation

Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.

Innovation is the way to make a difference for achieving the “art of possible.” Innovations can range from small to radical for driving performance. 

 Creative disruption can lead to breakthrough innovation. Most good ideas often emerge from interactions, innovative organizations manifest creativity from an individual endeavor to a team activity and a collective effort, develop creative synergy by enablement, encouragement, and empowerment.

Innovation & individualism: The freshness of individualism can infuse passion, demonstrate unique strength, and build a strong personal brand. It is a construct formed in the mind and we know that the mind of every individual is different, we are all unique human beings with different character, talent, and habit. The actual mental understanding and subsequent manifestations in action will be different for each individual. By advocating individualism, you create a new state of awareness in which the self is nourished through self-awareness and self-development, make people willing to progress and then take the steps necessary to tap creativity.

From a talent management perspective, an in-depth understanding of individualism helps to build a creative workplace in which people are inspired to think differently, generate fresh ideas, uniqueness and autonomy are encouraged to renew creative energy. People concentrate their energy on developing their own strength and building their innovative competency, not just putting eyes on the competitors, enforcing professional strengths and unlocking potential continuously.

Innovation & Interdependence: Humans progress has gone through three stages: dependent, independent, and interdependent. There is a typical interdependence that leads to conflict, conflict leads to creative thinking for solving problems innovatively. Silos are a typical pattern used in complex business systems in an attempt to keep complexity under some semblance of control. Cross-silo or cross-divisional collaboration is crucial to connect dots for spurring innovation and building dynamic digital competencies.

The core activity of human evolution to the ever-changing environment is to reach high performance or enlightenment. The collaboratively interdependent organizations can reach the higher state of business maturity because limited hierarchy works best in a creative environment in which the free flow of ideas and their prompt implementation is a key element of business success. To discover innovation hot spots, companies must begin thinking about ways to broaden their ecosystem understanding of interdependence, while becoming more responsive to every changing environment, spot the right problems to solve and solve them innovatively.

Innovation & heterogeneous collaboration: One of the biggest challenges in this complex, multi-polar world is the fact that we need different perspectives, different knowledge, and different ways to define a right problem and solve it effectively. To overcome the common challenges and advance the human race, heterogeneous teams with complimentary mindsets, knowledge, skills and talent can broaden perspectives, see things differently, generate fresh ideas and solve problems smoothly. You have to really dig beneath the superficial layer, see around the corner and transcend the interdisciplinary knowledge, to get to the heart of the matter by bridging cognitive gaps and enhancing the culture of innovation.

To brainstorm fresh ideas or co-solve problems, sometimes there is not "one" answer: there are some, or many: that is why it is important to build heterogeneous teams with cognitive differences and complementary skills, capabilities, background, experience, to broaden their vision, and deepen understanding of issues in order to solve them thoroughly. To enhance collaboration of heterogeneous teams, start to leverage powerful technology tools to make formerly invisible patterns of social interaction more visible, and apply such information to boost social engagement and foster innovation. Every good innovation management tool (idea, concept, project, and product) is as good as the people that are using it. People are innovators, not processes.

Creativity needs a problem, and a creative person needs a purpose. Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness. The “art of possible” is phenomenal. The real challenge is to understand where and how you can and should improve to get the biggest innovation effect, focus on creating strategic synergies, scale-up across the digital ecosystem to generate creative value and make a leapfrog of societal progress.

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