How to be more innovative? Some advice from the experts on how to design your personal innovation roadmap -- in three steps. Slides from a keynote presentation prepared for Queen's School of Business Innovation Summit, 2014.
4. “
Around here we don’t look backwards for
long. We keep moving forward, opening
up new doors, doing new things. Curiosity
leads us down new paths. — Walt Disney
5. the challenge:
to design a personal
innovation
roadmap
a clear track to follow
getting you from where you
are now, to where you want
to be next year
6. 1 become an expert.
commit to continuous
lifelong learning &
professional
development
7. “
Learning and innovation go hand in hand.
The arrogance of success is to think that
what you did yesterday will be sufficient for
tomorrow.
— William Pollard
9. For every job across the company, the No. 1 thing
we look for is general cognitive ability. It’s not I.Q.
It’s learning ability. The ability to process on the fly.
To pull together disparate bits of information.
— Laszlo Bock, SVP
Human Resources, Google
10. Make sure you give yourself enough
uninterrupted time for you to think
because privacy often increases productivity.
work hard. alone.
12. “
Questions are like keys that unlock doors in
our lives and work. The challenge is finding
the right key to unlock the right door.
— Hal B. Gregersen
17. there is magic in the remix
“
The winner is the chef
who takes the same
ingredients as everyone
else and produces the
best result.
-- Edward de Bono
20. “
Pitch your product to friends, family,
angels, journalists, random people you
meet on the street. You’ll see patterns in
their responses. Do their eyes light up?
Do they return a blank stare?
— Prerna Gupta