How we communicate our ideas and concepts is an important opportunity for us to innovate. We want people to be engaged with and remember what we are communicating to them. We want to engage their mind. Typically we all have a series of words or text that describes our idea or concept that we want to get across. Usually it is presented in sentence form, sometimes bullet form, to make it easier on the eyes. Why not use some design in how you communicate these text words to make it more engaging and memorable for the mind and how people learn? Many times we are communicating the same thing over and over again…so something like this could be worthy of a little bit of our time to design how this text could LOOK.
Authored by Darin J. Eich, Ph.D.
If growth is a top priority, innovative thinking skills should be encouraged and developed at all levels of an organization. Sure, there should be a great emphasis on external or open innovation and many of innovative ideas can come from your customers or other subject matter experts. Nonetheless, it is the employees of your company who will connect those ideas and develop their own ideas within your innovation system in order to fill your pipeline on a continuous basis. The first place to open innovation is within your organization. Imagine what kind of culture of innovation your firm could have if every employee contributed to the innovation process at a place where his/her unique strengths aligned with your needs? A variety of employees can contribute to each stage of innovation by: