Innovation Flow

Look at your Problem through different lenses The first step to come up with innovative ideas is to look at a problem innovatively i.e look at the problem through different lenses. We tend to look at a problem from only one angle - but how to trigger our mind to look at it from different angles ? Try asking the question what would X do - X could be Steve Jobs or Buddha or Don Quixote or Gandhi or your own Grandfather or Mother-in-law - the idea is to bring a new perspective to the problem. I listed 100+ such people - studied their innovative thinking style - and asked myself "What would X do?" to create a new perspective to the problem that I work on. I conciously limit this exercise only to define the problem - i do not extend this concept to idea generation (for certain reasons that i will elaborate later). When you try to solve a problem innovatively, a trigger that you could use is: What would a Bumble Bee do? Bumble Bee: According to 20th centu...