innovation crafting
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Innovation Crafting - A Framework for Innovation. It has following phases - Open Your Eyes, Open Your Heart, Dream Dreams, Come Back to Earth and Just do itTRANSCRIPT
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“I cannot accept a pretense of science. I much prefer a sophisticated craft, focused on tricks, to a failed science looking for certainties” NassimNicholas Taleb
The Internet Capillary networkInter-disciplinary collaborations
High School Friendships
Complex system design diagram
“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe” Anderson, P.W.,
More is Different, Science, Vol. 177, No. 4047, Aug. 4, 1972, pp. 393-396.
“The older is not always a reliable model for the newer, the smaller for the larger, or the simpler for the more complex… Making something greater than any existing thing necessarily involves going beyond experience.”
Henry Petroski, Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
When Einstein was asked what was most helpful to him in developing the theory of relativity, he replied,
“Figuring out how to think about the problem.”
Care about the Premises more than the Theory
What you know is limited by what you can know today;
What you don’t know today is what you will be forced to know tomorrow;
There are always limits to your Knowledge
What you should do is to create as many alternative futures as possible and also
keep with you as many possible histories as
possible.
You don’t know which history is connected to which future – but one path is unfolding
right now – you need to find out….
Work around
the limits to your
Knowledge
Burning your hand is a small price to pay for a good idea.
Release
Collaboration Ensemble
Play
Accept wide variations
within known parameters
• Conversation.• Released from Vanity,
inhibition, preconception• Treat others inputs as
material to make with• So that New Ideas
emerge
• Work of a group dedicated to collaboration
• Create a whole greater than sum of its parts
• Interactions among members of the groups
Re-conceiving everything in response to what team sees as
newly possible with each passing movement of rehearsal, as a result
of each new thing tried
The whole of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday THINKING
Sometimes one pays the most for the things one
gets for nothing
Actors and other artists do their work for the sake of doing their work!
“Discovery” suggests there is a right choice waiting to be found
Successfully getting reliable innovation from knowledgeworkers requires a diligent faith in an impeccable processknowing that it will produce something of value before a firmdeadline
Calls for collaboration without detailed/coercive direction Passionate support and faith in their work
De-stigmatizing mistakes and failures – Celebrating them assteps on the path to Innovation
The brain is a complex adaptive system. The brain is a social brain. The search for meaning is innate. The search for meaning occurs through patterning. Emotions are critical to patterning. Every brain simultaneously perceives and creates parts and
wholes. Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral
attention. Learning always involves conscious and unconscious processes. We have at least two ways of organizing memory. Learning is developmental. Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by
threat. Every brain is uniquely organized
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/brain-based3
3 Conditions for Learning
Relaxed Alertness
Active ProcessingOrchestrated
Immersion
Low Threat and High Challenge
In Multiple, Complex, Authentic
Experiences
Experiences processed as the basis of
Meaning
"Optimizing the use of the human brain means using the brain’s infinite capacity to make connections–and understanding what conditions maximize this process."
Three interactive and mutually supportive elements that should be present in order for complex learning to occur:
An optimal state of mind that we call relaxed alertness,consisting of low threat and high challenge.
The orchestrated immersion of the learner in multiple, complex, authentic experience.
The regular, active processing of experience as the basis for making meaning.
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/brain-based3
Chaotic Dumbness (High Threat, Low Challenge)
Comply with this or else… Constant use of “Killer Phrases” to destroy new ideas
Automated Disjointedness (Delegation, Hands Off)
Follow the process, don’t worry about anything Processes above people – Right processes Mandated will create
results “Skill Set” based work assignment
Passive Analysis (Data Collection, Historical Data Analysis)
Give me all the data that has been accumulated – I will analyze and give you Insights
Quantify – if you cant quantify you don’t really know? We will do a Quarterly Analysis to provide you results
From Automated Disjointedness to Orchestrated Immersion
From Passive Analysis to Active Processing
From Chaotic Dumbness to Relaxed Alertness
We Love to Kill Ideas! Everyone of us. Especially if they are from Others!
Nurture and Grow Every IDEA
“William Daniel "Danny" Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that
developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied
Minds, Metaweb, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.
2009 © Crafitti Consulting [email protected]
1. Open Your Eyes – and Keep them Open
2. Open Your Heart – and Fall in Love with each Idea
3. Dream Dreams – and Grow with each Idea
4. Come Back to Earth
5. Just Do it – with open eyes, open heart, dreaming with feet on earth