Innovation is not a gift you're born with; it's a recipe you can follow.
WHY THIS MATTERS
If members of your team think innovation is something you're born with and cannot develop, they will never get better at it.
The reason why everyone on your team relies on you to solve their problems is because they lack confidence in their ability to solve them on their own. However, if people had a better understanding of the definition of innovation and the process they can follow to drive change, more individuals would be motivated to pursue it.
The reason why everyone on your team relies on you to solve their problems is because they lack confidence in their ability to solve them on their own. However, if people had a better understanding of the definition of innovation and the process they can follow to drive change, more individuals would be motivated to pursue it.
WHAT IS INNOVATION?
Innovation is the result of making things better by either introducing something that should exist or improving something that already exists.
💡 You don’t have to have a new idea every 20 minutes to be an innovator.
👨🏻‍🎨 You don’t have to be artistic to be an innovator.
📱 You don’t have to create a device that will change the world to be an innovator.
Innovation is simply the act of making something better.
You can do that.
You just have to follow the recipe.
You just have to follow the recipe.
THE RECIPE FOR INNOVATION
- IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM. What problem are we trying to solve? What are the root causes?
- RESEARCH. Who do we know or who can we study that has solved a similar problem?
- COLLECT PLAUSIBLE SOLUTIONS. What are all the things we could do?
- SELECT THE BEST SOLUTION. Out of everything we could do which one’s the best option?
- PLAN IMPLEMENTATION. What must be done? What's needed? Who will do it? When should it be completed? How will we know if we succeeded?
- RUN THE EXPERIMENT. We put the idea into action, and track the data to see if it worked.
- EXAMINE THE RESULTS. Have we solved the problem? If not, what’s the problem?
WHAT'S NEXT: In this series, we will break down the seven ingredients of innovation, helping you build a toolkit to solve problems and make things better.
See you tomorrow,
Hunter