Bringing Innovation 101: Unlearn everything you know about Innovation

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” - Gloria Steinem

In spite of getting a place in vision statement of every organization and spoken by every CEOs, organizations do very little to bring the innovation in a true sense.

The important thing which stops us from bringing innovation is what we know as Innovation is not innovation.

Unlearning everything we know as innovation, is the first step to innovate.

#1: Innovation is Big

We all taught “Innovation is Big”,

This very thinking makes innovation expensive.

To become an innovative company, YOU NEED NOT TO INVENT THE NEXT BIG THING, PERIOD.

As Hugh Macleod, mentioned in How To Be Creative, "The idea (Innovation) doesn't have to be big. It just has to change the world" 

Anything which brings a small improvement in a way we (especially our customers) do things is INNOVATION.

#2: Innovation is an activity

Most of us think that innovation is an activity, which is need massive investment in terms of resources, to make it worst, many think that it's a non billable activity.

Believe me, Innovation is not an activity, IT JUST A WAY OF THINKING 

Create a culture, Bring defined innovative processes like Design Driven Development(D3), innovation will flourish.

#3: We need Innovators

Innovation is not belong to a set of people or set of skills

Everyone can innovate

"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten", Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative

YOU NEED NOT TO HIRE ANY NEW TALENTS.

All you need is a leader, a leader, who can bring the best from people, who can create a culture of innovation

The same Apple, which created  some breakthrough products , was struggled to innovate when Steve Jobs left Apple during 1997.

Every organization needs someone to drive the innovation, this is exactly what Bill Gates do at Microsoft as a Chief Architect.