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New Business Concepts pioneered by Vadim Kotelnikov, Inventor, Author and Founder of Ten3 Business e-Coach |
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The Jazz of Innovation |
Ten3 Mini-course by Vadim Kotelnikov 80 PowerPoint slides + 80 half-page Executive Summaries Learn & Teach – Fast! US$34 See contents Buy now |
To jazz up your ability to innovate, turn to jazz – create a clear guiding structure, establish a creative chaos environment within this structure to liberate people and trigger accidental discoveries, and experimentations, discoveries. There is a clear structure to good jazz. Similarly, the flexible improvisation-driven model for innovation project management encourages improvisation within a guiding structure. In innovation, this structure is created through roadmaps, guiding principles, business processes, systems and organizational charts. Strategic-planning and road-mapping processes cannot guarantee brilliant flashes of creative insight, but they can prepare minds and increase the odds that such flashes occur in real time. Thus structure, as chords do in jazz, serves as a basis for improvisation, experimentations, discoveries and innovation.
Tom Peters researched many innovative companies and had been impressed by the "inherent sloppiness" of innovation. The "messy world", or the "creative chaos environment", is its "given precondition". The necessary solution has three parts, each one leading on to the next: experimentation, champions, and decentralized bands. To take advantage of that “inherent sloppiness” of innovation, managers must generate the right climate for creativity, experimentation, and individualism, and encourage iconoclasts and rule-breakers. 11 Practice Tips
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