Innovator's DNA

Creativity is a learned skills. Innovators learn to be more creative by focusing their time and efforts in 5 important discovery skills. A company can also shape their ability to be more innovative through a proper framework. Learn more from Innovation gurus, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen.

1. DNA
Innovator’s

2. Theauthors
Brigham Young
University
Jeff Dyer
MIT Leadership
Center
Hal Gregersen
Harvard
Business School
Jeff Dyer

3. The ability to innovate is not
merely a function of the

4. but also a function of

5. General intelligence
is basically a
genetic endowment
(at least the way scientists measure it)
IQ

6. Creativity
IQ
is NOT

7. Successful innovators learnto be more
creative by focusing their time and efforts in the
Necessary skills

8. 5
Innovator’s

9. 5
Innovator’s
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10. 5
Innovator’s
Associating Questioning
observing Networking
experimenting

12. Albert Einstein
called this process
“Combinatorial Play”

13. innovators connect different
ideas or practices from
various
disciplines or cultures

14. It is a habitof thinking
which can be built through
training, travel and
exposure

16. Innovators always challenge
conventional wisdom by asking
?WHY

17. and the follow up question
?WHY
NOT

18. We need to
practice consciously

19. It helps us to look for
unnoticedclues, patterns,
and differentperspectives

21. Innovators examine
everything and identify the
commonality
in seemingly unconnected events

22. Pay attention to how
thingswork

23. how peoplebehave

24. how a decisionis made

25. Your skill of observation can
be strengthened bychanging
your perspectives

26. documenting the reasons of
Failed innovations

28. Networking is important for many people’s
career development

29. fornetworking
DifferentReasons
However,Innovatorshave

30. By meeting people different from them,
they build a bridge to a different field

31. They network to acquire
new information

32. borrow ideas from
different disciplines

34. to experiment their ideas
Entire World
Innovators use the

35. Seeking new experience
indifferent domains

36. Breaking
things up to improve them

37. building
to test new ideas Prototypes

38. innovators don’tdesign the
experiment for a specific outcome

39. they pursue its
outcomes to see what
they can learnwith an
open-ended testing

40. Cana company shapetheirabilityto be more innovative

41. 3P framework thatShapes aninnovative organization

42. 1

43. Innovative companies
are almost always led by
innovative leaders

44. They provide a model
of discovery skills

45. and attract like-mindedpeople

46. They know …
what skills
they lack
what they are
good at

47. And, always form teams with
“complementary discovery skills”

49. 2

50. Innovative organizations develop
discovery skills systematicallyand
follow the discovery processes

51. This often begins with the
TOP executives
in the company

52. they extend
the discovery processes
to an institutional level
By …

53. Rotatingtheir
employees’ positions

54. organizing innovation
contests with
outside people

55. Sponsoring
experiments of
new ideas

56. 3

57. forward-looking firms understand the
“Smart Risks”
and invest heavily in disruptive innovation

58. They believe innovation is
everyone’s job

59. And, communicatethe importance
of innovation to everyone by

60. People are
encouraged to
experiment and given
to explore new ideas
“Protected time”

61. Summary

62. 5
Innovator’s
Associating Questioning
observing Networking
experimenting

63. 3P Framework

64. Creativity is a learnedskill

65. StarttodaybyPracticingyour discovery skills

66. and Shapingyour business
to be more innovative

67. www.innodiary.org
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