Innovation Flow

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?  is a painting by French artist  Paul Gauguin  (Image Sourece - Wikipedia) I like the metaphor of a journey to describe innovation or innovative problem solving. The metaphor that you have in your mind for innovation will strongly influence your thinking and your approach. If you have a unique style of innovating, that arises from the unique metaphor that you use. I was introduced to the world of metaphors and how they influence our thinking and lives by the book "Metaphors that we live by". If you are planning a journey, then the three most basic things that you would ask will be : Where do we come from  - the starting point of the journey - Here Where are we going - the ultimate destination - There What are we - constrained or limited by  What are we - expected to do to go from here to there In the context of Innovative Problem Solving, the equivalent questions would be We nee...