Talk:Innovation/Archive 1

Henry Bolano

The current page, as of 15 dec 07, starts of with a wast amount of text by Henry Bolano, obviously copied from some book. If noone objects, I'd like to see this removed.

15 December 2007 (UTC)

Other definition

I'd consider innovation to be "any new way of achieving a certain result that affects its accumulated cost or achieves more". Wherein "new" should be read as previously not practiced; and "its accumulated cost" should be understood to refer to the total quantified effort to achieve the "result". Unless more is achieved, "cost" should decrease.

28 April 2006 (UTC)

Reversion

The entry was reverted to the version previous to 12 December 2005, kl 22:00. On 12 december 2005, important encyclopedic information was removed, including other definitions of innovation, the very important issue of measures of innovation, links to other important items like creative destruction and even Schumpeter (!), and the fundamentally important bibliographical sources that make the encyclopedic entry verifiable.

28 April 2006 (UTC)

New Oslo Manual

Developers: please correct the entry on "Technological product and process (TPP) innovations", referring to the Oslo Manual. A new version of the manual was published in 2005 (see: <http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/OSLO/EN/OSLO-EN.PDF>) and there are important implications regarding this definition too! Kind regards, J.Szlezak@freemail.hu

18 September 2006 (UTC)

Innovation and Creativity

Innovation needs to be distinguished from creativity. Creativity is the thinking up of a totally new idea, whereas Innovation is when a new idea is placed into practice and action and transforming that idea into something that is tangible for others to use. Innovation cannot happen without that creative idea. Innovation and creativity have been always paired together as if they were a cast from the same mold. Both activities require different mindsets, skill sets, and thinking styles. There are many definitions of innovation and creativity. Greenberg and Baron in their book: Behavior in Organizations define Innovation as: “The process of making changes to something already established by introducing something new; the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization. They also define creativity as: “The process by which individuals or teams produce novel and useful ideas. Learning and creativity as I consider are two sides of a coin. Proper education techniques are the currency of economic strength, and creativity is inevitably the business of educational systems, not only the economy. The real key and reasoning of America’s economic strength has been in relation to the creativity skills acquired by Americans during their educational endeavors from kindergarten to high school, and throughout their higher educational systems. In an interview in Forbes magazine with Michael Eisner the former CEO of Walt Disney company he stated that: “the future of all American business and its success is going to be based on innovation and creativity”. In another interview recently aired on ABC’s Good Morning America, with His Royal highness Prince Saud Al-Faisal minister of foreign affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Diane Sawyer argued the progress of changing Saudi curricula from a point of view of changing wordings of some verses of The holy Qur’an, and scripts of the sayings of the prophet Mohammed Peace be upon him; to eradicate unwanted behavior neglecting cultural norms, and the desire to change the specifics that she argued about; which we do not have control over since they are quotations that cannot be changed. Instead I would strongly suggest to both sides and emphasize that with the help of American education consultants monitoring and working on these changes in Saudi schools educational texts and curricula is to foster individual and collective creativity and innovation factors, and having the objective of raising achievement, which I am very aware that the Saudi educational system lacks. Implementing creative thinking skill that enables students to generate and extend ideas, initiate hypothesis increasing their imaginary abilities, and finding innovative outcomes. This restructure of the whole educational system would have a significant result of making the Saudi youth change the way they think “out of the box”, and giving them a chance to be more creative. Higher education in health and management are the major areas where innovation and creativity should be found, and taught. From my educational experience back home in a health related faculty, I would criticize my home institution of dampening my creativity skills. We focused on theory majorly. Traditional educational practices were our instructor’s main focus. My colleagues and I used to depend on rote learning and detailed memorization without understanding and grasping concepts where creativity was not cultivated at all. The condensed and accelerated system was a major reason where a student enters medical school after high school without introduction to fundamentals of biology and medicine. Medicine and health related educational training should be complex and problem based with the use of multimedia visuals. Business schools and management specialties and programs should be increasingly aware of the creativity and flexibility required to stay on top of the intense job market, and to help them survive the competition by understanding the discipline of innovation. A suggestion to enhance creativity at higher education institutions everywhere is to initiate creativity and innovation indexes to rank schools on how well they foster them among students and faculty. Also diversity (domestic and international) is another factor that I learned during my educational endeavor here in the United that enhances both creativity and innovation by creating a free dialogue between students to understand different cultures, race, and boundary crossings. Managerial innovation is a healthy sign for a company or entity. It is a clear observation that the most innovative companies depend on change as the biggest factor of success. As we learned in class, IBM as an example to prove my point where the chief executive officer Samuel Palmisano changed the main products of his company from hardware to software. This changing model does not happen overnight. Also taking risks and investing for the long term and joining efforts are other factors of innovation at the managerial level. As Boeing doubled the price of their triple seven jets from $6 billion to $ 12 billion dollars when it shared the risk with partners such as the Japanese Mitsubishi motors and the Italian Alenia Aeronautica. Teamwork is another way to improve innovation when you find a team trying to think along and work on your new ideas.

One of the things I realized during my stay here in the United States was that dental clinics became extremely digitalized, leaving out children from the joy of the digital age, and the learning and educational capabilities that could be added. I also have an idea that is considered an innovation, which is related to my backgrounds in dentistry and public health. Pediatric dental clinics and elementary schools would do a better job in the dental health awareness to kids and children, by having a computer game or a video game console (XBOX /Nintendo/Sony play station); that gives awareness to children about the endemics of dental caries and cavities, and tooth loss, and could be easily developed here in the United States. I hope I would get this idea into action one day.

26 May 2007 (UTC)

Quote

Perhaps include this (slightly modified) quote:

Innovation is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas A. Edison

4 May 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Innovation/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

It needs clear, attributed definitions in the opening sections - perhaps from the books references listed. It also needs references and explanation of key concepts. And snapshots of the work of the most prominent authors/researchers in the innovation field. It also needs to become a collaborative effort rather than the hobby of one contributor. 78.149.76.183 (talk) 16:01, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Last edited at 16:01, 21 October 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 20:33, 3 May 2016 (UTC)