Two Barriers to
Overcome |
❶ Remove
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perceptual
and cognitive limitations imposed by your own
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knowledge
structures
❷ Be willing to discard the "old"
paradigms
that have served you long and well, with which you are both
familiar and comfortable. This is the "box" in which you must not be
trapped if you are to make progress. |
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Challenge Assumptions
Challenging assumptions
means questioning the everyday things you take for granted. "The best
assumption to have is that any commonly held belief is wrong," says Ken
Olson, CEO of DEC...
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Ask Searching Questions
Creativity
requires an
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inquisitive mind. Unless you ask lots of
"Why?" and "What If"? questions
, you won't generate creative insights.
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Make a
Difference!
"To avoid this most common of
creative errors, be sure to peek under all carpets, including your own.
Don't take anything for granted. Especially
success. Try looking at the world through more inquisitive eyes; try
getting ideas in motion; try asking the all-important: "Why?"
See what happens!" advises Alexander Hiam.
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Step Out of Your Shoes
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Change hats
and your
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thinking mode.
Stepping out of your everyday shoes and into the shoes of others may help
you surface new insights to a problem...
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Problem Solving Strategies:
4 Levels
KoRe 10 Innovative
Thinking Tools
KoRe 10 Tools help
innovators approach
creation of
entrepreneurial
strategies and
anticipation of opponents' moves more
systematically.
The KoRe 10 Tools help also
innovation leaders and
radical project managers strengthen and
synergize the
most important
areas of innovation...
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Systemic Innovation:
7 Areas
Jugaad
– an innovative fix to optimize resources
The
Indian Jugaad is a respected methodology of
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optimizing the resources.
It is a survival tactic that expresses a need to do what needs to be done,
without regard to what is conventionally supposed to be possible. This
meaning is often used to signify
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creativity
to utilize the limited resources to the maximum extent...
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Silicon
Valley
In Silicon Valley, companies
challenge the status quo
and encourage
creative
out-of-the-box thinking mixed with pragmatic business judgment...
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