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Innovative Thinking : Spurring Innovative Thinking In Business - Tips for Executives
Do you want your employees to be more innovative? Yes, of course. Who doesn’t? However, spurring innovative thinking and action is not easy, otherwise everyone would be creating the Apple Watch, Zoom, and the Go-Pro Hero.
Here I’ll offer tips on how to foster more innovative thinking in your business. Suggestions are drawn from my work and research, plus insight from others such as IDEO, the world-famous design firm.
What is innovative thinking?
Creative ideas come from prolific idea generators. The notion that geniuses hide away and conjure up one great idea is absurd. Really creative people produce many, many ideas, most of which are duds. But within that garbage heap of castoffs, there tend to be one or two good ones. Thomas Edison was famous for running thousands of experiments of his ideas before he and his team came up with a working light bulb, after all.
Punishment Free Zone
Therefore, you need to create an environment where people are given the opportunity to conceptualize, scrutinize and champion ideas and projects. They need to be open to failing and confident there will be no punishment for…
