Please do not co-relate these ideas to any
organization that you are working or know. This is my generic thought process
on how Innovation should happen.
Recent times the thoughts on how nurturing innovation and how
delivering quality up scaling on a smaller scale or within limited capacity are
popping inside my mind and thought will share with you guys. Innovation and
thus quality improvement through continues innovation were always my very much
interest factors and I always tried to see the view points of the same from
various angles and tried to analyze the same. I strongly believes that
continues innovation is the key factor for sustainable growth of any
organization. So how that can be achieved within limited capacity and within
limited resources. So for the same purpose I just wanted to see innovation in
the practical aspects of it to conclude it to two categories.
1. Innovating on the existing system.
2. Innovating for something new.
In either cases, innovation comes with a costly affair. Money spend on it and ROI makes innovation more practical and feasible, just like any good job. In order to achieve the same, I had a study on how we can incubate innovation on limited capacity or limited scale. So practicality of same drive me to the following factors.
1. Innovate by ourselves.
2. Invest on R&D of innovation by others.
In order to digest both facts, we should again understand that innovation is all about making our life simpler and easier. But it is also a fact that innovation comes at a cost. But as a matter of fact, internet has provided us with so many opportunities to adopt or get or use the open sources. It makes the innovation less costly than it actually meant to be most of the time as we gets so many resources already in the form of developed. Then it remains as just use it policies.
I have observed that the most challenging job involved in innovation is that shifting people from the comfort zone that they were comfortable with a prolonged to time to another comfort zone (on a happy path). Just the way mentioned, this shift is one of the main hurdle of the innovation adoption.
Yesterday in fact I was just going through the open sources that are available on the net. It was to my surprise that a single Google chrome can makes your life easier or rather precisely a short cut key on a windows operating system may make your life easier. Either you create a short cut or rather make use of available one.
Throughout my career It was habitual to me to make the shortcuts on any job that I do, it was nothing biggie though, but was making my life easier, and it was making somebody else’s life easier too. But it even came to my observation that certain small innovation or adoption to new ideas of doing job/work can eventually result in a drastic productivity increase.
It can happen in the following ways.
1. Most importantly it’s all about listing out the pain areas or understanding a tool or concept found interesting to list it to the category ‘How it can be made useful?’.
2. Study of the tool or concept from every aspect of it is another interesting thing to do.
3. Evangelizing the tool or concept in the appropriate way is the most important task involved in it. For example, if three people are using a tool in three different ways may not be an appropriate way to do. One can in fact find out the best/easiest way to do same and can spread the idea.
4. Quantifying/Measuring the productivity increase is another critical factor of any innovation.
As a practical example of it, I had a look into the Google chrome extensions/plugins, which made me wonder if somebody can actually do a study on how it can be made use of it in our daily job. To be precise, there may be so many shortcut keys which I am not familiar with the operating system that I work with or the tool that I am using. Per save of time/effort through a productivity increase tool in the name of innovation may actually result in drastic increase of time/effort. I have in fact proved it in many projects. Sometimes when the resource count increases it may save hours of productivity.
1. Innovating on the existing system.
2. Innovating for something new.
In either cases, innovation comes with a costly affair. Money spend on it and ROI makes innovation more practical and feasible, just like any good job. In order to achieve the same, I had a study on how we can incubate innovation on limited capacity or limited scale. So practicality of same drive me to the following factors.
1. Innovate by ourselves.
2. Invest on R&D of innovation by others.
In order to digest both facts, we should again understand that innovation is all about making our life simpler and easier. But it is also a fact that innovation comes at a cost. But as a matter of fact, internet has provided us with so many opportunities to adopt or get or use the open sources. It makes the innovation less costly than it actually meant to be most of the time as we gets so many resources already in the form of developed. Then it remains as just use it policies.
I have observed that the most challenging job involved in innovation is that shifting people from the comfort zone that they were comfortable with a prolonged to time to another comfort zone (on a happy path). Just the way mentioned, this shift is one of the main hurdle of the innovation adoption.
Yesterday in fact I was just going through the open sources that are available on the net. It was to my surprise that a single Google chrome can makes your life easier or rather precisely a short cut key on a windows operating system may make your life easier. Either you create a short cut or rather make use of available one.
Throughout my career It was habitual to me to make the shortcuts on any job that I do, it was nothing biggie though, but was making my life easier, and it was making somebody else’s life easier too. But it even came to my observation that certain small innovation or adoption to new ideas of doing job/work can eventually result in a drastic productivity increase.
It can happen in the following ways.
1. Most importantly it’s all about listing out the pain areas or understanding a tool or concept found interesting to list it to the category ‘How it can be made useful?’.
2. Study of the tool or concept from every aspect of it is another interesting thing to do.
3. Evangelizing the tool or concept in the appropriate way is the most important task involved in it. For example, if three people are using a tool in three different ways may not be an appropriate way to do. One can in fact find out the best/easiest way to do same and can spread the idea.
4. Quantifying/Measuring the productivity increase is another critical factor of any innovation.
As a practical example of it, I had a look into the Google chrome extensions/plugins, which made me wonder if somebody can actually do a study on how it can be made use of it in our daily job. To be precise, there may be so many shortcut keys which I am not familiar with the operating system that I work with or the tool that I am using. Per save of time/effort through a productivity increase tool in the name of innovation may actually result in drastic increase of time/effort. I have in fact proved it in many projects. Sometimes when the resource count increases it may save hours of productivity.
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