[Weekly Retro] Things we get wrong about innovation
#47 - Apr.2024
Happy Friday!
💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off for the weekend:
Things we get wrong about innovation:
- Not realizing the combinational nature of new solutions: Most innovations are iterations of previous ideas. It’s about the value, not the novelty. Leverage others' ideas and add your contribution.
- Confusing inventions with innovations: A new invention is just the first step. How you turn it into something accessible, optimized, and available to solve a real problem is what turns it into an innovation.
- Believe that all innovation should be disruptive: Disruptive innovation is just one side of the spectrum. Ignoring the potential of incremental improvements of new ways of doing things is missing a huge opportunity to create value.
Innovation can become a complex process. But the first step is to find simple ways to solve people’s problems.
Many of the biggest innovations started with a small step forward.
✉️ Post from this week
This week I wrote about running out of ideas and embracing our practice to move forward, even if it seems meaningless.
The next dot
#105 - Knowledge bites on tech innovation, design, and creativity. Move forward. You might be closer than you think to your next big idea. You just don’t see it, yet.
César Rodríguez
👨🏻💻 Interesting links I found during this week
Why generative AI needs a creative human touch | MIT Sloan
To succeed with generative artificial intelligence and extended reality, companies should also harness human creativity, curiosity, and compassion.
Beth Stackpole
Don’t design for AI
Design for problems worth solving with AI, distributed cognition, cognitive tasks and human centered intelligent systems
Johannes Schleith
🖋️ Quote of the week:
“No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.” - Seth Godin.
