"Toay innovation is more driven by people's creativity than by high-level scientific research."
In a large survey conducted by GE in 2011, of a thousand senior business executives in a dozen different countries, 99% of respondents believe innovation is the way to be more competitive nationally. 88% agree innovation is the best way to create jobs in their country, and 69% agree with the above statement that innovation today is about people's creativity more than high-level scientific research.
Innovation is .....creativity with a real-world purpose such that the result creates value and is adopted by large numbers of people.
Seven survival skills needed by today's workers
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
- Agility and adaptability
- Initiative and entrepreneurship
- Accessing and analyzing information
- Effective oral and written communication
- Curiosity and imagination
These are important and necessary but not sufficient to be an innovator.
What is needed to be an innovator?
Tim Brown's characteristsics of "design thinkers"
from his Harvard Business Review article June 2008 entitled "Design Thinking"
- empathy (putting people first and seeing the world from multiple perspectives by questioning and observing )
- optimism and perseverance
- experimentalism (the trial and error processs, iteration)
- collaboration (often having expertise yourself in different fields)
Teresa Amabile's Harvard Business Review article "How to Kill Creativity" Sep-Oct 1998.
From page 27, Chapter 1 "A Primer on Innovation"
"What do you suppose the foudners of Goodle, Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos; Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales; Julia Child; and rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs all have in common? Gregersen's research uncovered an extraordinary commonality among some of the most innovative individuals: they all went to Montessori schooles, where they learned through play. The research about the importance of play in children's development spans many decades. In the twentieth centure, Maria Montessori, Lev Vygotsky, and Jean Piaget, and others did groundbreaking research on the ways in which children learn through play."
Creating, making, and being innovative are central to being human.
The following video clips drive this message home. I've ordered them by inspirational power and brevity.
Elder Uchtdorf - 2min - "The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.
Everyone can create. You don’t need money, position, or influence in order to create something of substance or beauty." http://bit.ly/3PS9ZM
Preview of Design & Thinking movie - 2min
Dale Dougherty - 12 min - "All of us are makers!" including clips from an old Cheverolet video, "Of all things Americans are, we are makers."
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