Innovation

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Innovation comes with a relentless focus on experience and not being satisfied by "just getting it out". You might just take time to create a complex experience by taking your innovative idea and ruthlessly concentrating on how to reduce it to its essence. It's not just about cool new feature. It's more about how you can simplify it to a compelling solution.

Tips to help create an innovative culture :

 •  Engage and empower the entire team.Everyone in your organization should feel empowered to unleash his or her entrepreneurial spirit.

 • Suspend judgment. Identify “the good” in the ideas instead.

 • “Fail big, but fail soon.”Team members must also know that they have permission to fail. Sometimes you must move quickly and you can’t always play it safe. 

 • Set a good example.Take time to connect, mentor and develop your team members. Inspire them to create, look for new approaches and think outside the box.

 • Pay attention to the details.Designate specific goals, projects, times and expectations. These types of details ensure the innovation process doesn’t turn into a time suck.

 • Don’t forget about the physical environment. The physical environment people are in can influence how they feel, think and interact and can impact the quality and quantity in the innovation process.

The idea of innovation is taking off just as fast as the businesses that embrace it.

But, not all companies are prepared to push innovation within their organizations. Changing workplace systems and procedures requires resilience and flexibility, and it’s an unfortunate reality that many people are afraid of or continue to resist change

The ballpoint pen : was the equivalent of today’s smartphone. Before the ballpoint pen, writing was a stationary act that had to be done on a certain kind of desk, with all the other things at hand that allowed you to write.

The ballpoint pen turns writing into something that could happen anywhere. Plastic mass production allowed the pens to become even cheaper, allowing for the transformation of societies.

The Moving Stairs :

Nathan Ames, an inventor, applied for the patent in 1859 for the first kind of moving stairs, with a belt attached with three wheels, and powered by kinetic energy. This was never built.

As the 19th century came to an end, there were improvements in the way people lived and worked, facilitating the development of malls, skyscrapers, and electric subway trains. The print and photography industry paved the way for better advertising of products and services.

The Bicycles :

Bicycles made people see more of the world, as they were roaming through surrounding towns and places they wouldn’t have come otherwise. Cities were filled with bicycle riders enjoying the outside and being able to experience life in the open.

Cities were seeing rapid change as the streets and country roads became better, with special ‘cycle paths’ opening in 1895.

The Wheel :

The wheel and the axle didn’t suddenly spring up, but were a gradual, phased invention, starting with rollers that reduced friction on the ground, and helped the Egyptians and Mesopotamians move heavy objects.

The oldest discovered axle was found inside a potter’s wheel in a miniature, toy-like form in Mesopotamia. The fact that the center of the wheel is stationary as compared to the circumference is in fact the greatest mechanical insight ever known.

Combining the wheel with an axle was genius, leading to the invention of the wagon and other transport vehicles.