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What is Innovation?

Harvard Professional Development

Instead, it’s a process that guides businesses through developing products or services that deliver value to customers in new and novel ways. Ultimately, innovation is taking forward action and developing growth opportunities — not standing still or maintaining the status quo. Innovation isn’t just an idea or a tool.

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Understanding Interdependence in the Thinking Process

International Coach Academy

There are different types of thinking processes, including critical, creative, and analytical thinking. Critical thinking involves evaluating information and arguments logically and systematically, while creative thinking involves generating new and innovative ideas.

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AN EASY WAY TO GET THE IDEAS YOU WANT

Imagineer7

Ask yourself these questions which come from the creative thinking technique SCAMPER from my book THINKERTOYS: What can I substitute for this attribute? The innovations were created by creative thinkers focusing on separate attributes of the screwdriver such as the handle, power source, and the shaft. Can I add or magnify it?

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Seven notes for unlocking creativity in the workplace.

Charles Leon

Employees surveyed said that upper management rarely encouraged creative and flexible thinking, particularly if it might upset or disrupt existing ways of doing things. Creative thinking and systems thinking are not necessarily incompatible. Rick-taking and creativity are inextricably linked.

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Stagnation vs. Innovation

International Coach Academy

Stagnation refers to “a situation in which something stays the same and does not grow or develop” (Cambridge Online,2023). Rigid thinking is evident when one is bound up by embedded beliefs which can hinder the development of new perspectives and ideas. How can you develop the space to potentially see this problem differently?