Innovation

Innovators refuse to be bound by constraints and limitations, and pursue possibilities persistently.

Innovators are among us and within us, spot them via how they think and do things differently. Being able to become innovative or close is being able to think, and create new things based on the business or the customer’s needs, and solve problems alternatively.

Business professionals today need to be creative enough to think out-of-the-box, embrace great ideas; and take logical approaches to plan, engineer, implement, follow through, and evaluate innovation performance smoothly. Organizations have a great opportunity to catalyze innovation and build a highly-innovative business successfully.



Innovators as artists and designers: Innovation is the art in the eyes of artists. Art is driven by our wide imagination and unlimited creativity. Innovation is a systematic way of applying creativity to generate novel ideas, bringing into existence something which did not previously exist. Art is most usually seen by artists themselves as being principally about the act of creation; artistic innovation starts from abstract thinking and wide imagination to perceive the future, explore the” art of possible.”

Innovation starts with an idea followed by a management process that experiments, designs, prototypes, builds a set of hypotheses about how the product of the idea will look like, and how the customers will react to the product, converting the artistic ideas to designing to functioning work to achieve commercial value. Innovators are designers, they master the visual design elements, such as line, form, shape, and color, with principles like balance and variety, to make a visualization more customized for trends and comparisons.

Innovators are philosophers and psychologists: Due to the digital new normal such as complexity and uncertainty, the philosophic mind is in high demand to provide abstract thinking for understanding underneath rules and patterns, and offer multi-dimensional lenses for navigating through uncertainty, discovering truth and unpuzzling myths. The philosophical mind can set guidelines to solve problems innovatively. Innovators with philosophical mindset are able to frame the right problems before they can try to solve them alternatively.

Innovation is usually risky, it’s important to take calculated risks for achieving great outcomes. Hence, good innovators demonstrate healthy psychology to think optimistically. One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it. Collective psychology shapes the culture of creativity. Innovators can instill positive psychology to their workforce, build a culture of learning and innovation. Innovation leaders understand how people think and do things in the organization by understanding the proving psychological concepts and practicing them fluently, influence healthy psychology, inspire breakthrough innovation, and achieve innovation excellence.

Innovators as anthropologist and storyteller: Anthropology provides a holistic perspective of digging into the dynamic human interrelationship, helping people understand and enliven the varied social contexts and cultural scenarios in a better way. Thinking through anthropological dimensions questions one’s assumptions; opens one’s eyes to a spectrum of things with so many different shades and colors of the same world; expanding one’s vision of a contemporary society with cultural diversity, and human potential. Innovators with anthropological perspectives are able to experiment with different ways of doing the same things and they are more tolerant of cultures and customs other than their own, inspiring people-centric innovation.

Inspirational innovators are good story-tellers; the good story is about selling today for tomorrow. They are interesting enough to engage others, meaningful enough to touch the hearts, logical enough to develop empathy, vivid enough to reimagine possibilities, and persuasive enough to roll vision into reality. Besides imagination, information is one of the most intensive innovation puzzle pieces, innovators are able to tell the number-savvy stories, which can lead to more persuasive and evidence-based communication, gain trust and respect for building innovation competencies.

Innovators refuse to be bound by constraints and limitations, and pursue possibilities persistently. Business leaders and professionals should shape colorful vision, embrace creativity, grasp varying opportunities to innovate, take upward challenges and downwards risks, harness cross-boundary communication, and put collaborative efforts into orchestrating innovation constantly.

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