Innovation Flow

Innovation is (a) creating insightful ideas, (b) creating value out of it in new ways and (c) taking it to the market successfully. Creativity needs freedom while the process of value creation and taking it to the Market needs significant discipline of execution. The challenge is to balance these two apparently contradictory requirements - freedom and discipline.  Older models based on the concept that the left hemisphere of the human brain handles organization and the right hemispheres handles creativity do not teach us (a) How to achieve excellence in both hemispheres simultaneously ? or (b) How to strike a balance between the two ? or (c) How to trigger either one of the hemispheres on demand ?  I do not doubt the relative importance of either, rather I am interested in understanding how the left and right communicate with each other, how they can both work in synergy. If  Innovation = Creativity x Execution -------------------------------- (1) then how ...

Art & Innovation seems to go together. Art Fry (3M) of PostIt fame has become a legend in Innovation circles. Here is some news about Art Fong, an innovator from HP. Art Fong has a piece of advice for Innovators - I am sure you would like it. http://www.thenextbench.com/t5/Blog/Heritage-of-Innovation-Preview-Excerpts-from-an-Interview-with/ba-p/43699#A801 Phil (McKinney of Killer Innovation) recently interviewed Art Fong, who was personally recruited by Bill Hewlett to Hewlett-Packard in 1946. http://www.killerinnovations.com/ About Art Fong: Prior to joining the HP team, Art had many groundbreaking achievements in his career. He was a part of the development of the first AM/FM radio and radar technology, which became an integral part of the World War II efforts against the Axis. During his time at HP, Art made major engineering contributions to the company, with innovations such as impedance-measuring instruments, a line of signal generators, and the first calibrated microwave ...