Strengthen the Building Blocks of Innovation
Build FutureSkills Today.
As the marketplace becomes more competitive, the demand for a more highly skilled workforce will grow more intense. One way to ensure a sustainable stream of skilled workers is to begin arming our young people right from the time they are in school with problem-solving skills and the ability to make rapid decisions based on facts and evidence. They must also be imbued with commercial awareness and the talent for spotting opportunities. Graduates should be led to master Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Skills, which are the very foundation of innovation and lead to advanced problem-solving skills and full-spectrum thinking (design thinking). They must be given skills in Innopreneurship, the science and art of converting ideas into wealth, well before they enter the workforce. The workforce, too, has to acquire new skills. In particular, firms must become skillful at using innovation methodologies that empower them to come up with innovative business models, internal processes, sales and marketing strategies, distribution networks and customer support schemes. Small and Medium sized firms (SMEs) have to emulate the methodologies, systems and processes of the large multinational corporations. Innovation is not just for the private sector – the government too, must innovate.
The government must become proficient in streamlining processes, improving the public delivery system and improving client satisfaction. This can be achieved by applying a systematic and structured innovation methodology, adapted from the private sector. Innovation is thinking creatively and acting in a way that produces something new and or different that is implemented along the “innovation continuum” for the greater good of our region, state, nation or world.The Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana announces the innovation continuum to demonstrate that innovation is continuous, everywhere, and can be found in three broad areas regardless of the sector or the type of innovation, or whether technology is part of the innovation. These broad areas are “sustaining” or incremental innovation “transformational” or significant innovation and “disruptive” or game-changing innovation. The society recognizes three broad areas of innovation. This is regardless of the type of innovation or whether it affects a new business or a non-for-profit model, the arts, education, or government. The Society regards all three broad areas equally important to the process of innovation.
The innovation may involve technology, but it is not a requisite. Please note that you will be asked to identify, on the nomination form, where your nomination falls on the innovation continuum. My reasoning is that innovation as a context can apply across all steps in the continuum, And, for the thing going through the process continuum, it doesn’t become an innovation until it is commercialized, delivered and accepted to be fit for the purpose it was designed. One can easily see that this is a circular continuum. Once an innovation is accepted by users, experience builds and the opportunity to suggest new ideas for improvement start the cycle all over again. Many times, the cycle is started by adding creative new elements to the current invention sometimes called continuous innovation. Other times, our beliefs are challenged and heretofore impossibilities become possible and that drives drives a radical innovation. Still other times, experience causes us to throw out the current foundational beliefs, and the current generation of creativity and invention by the introduction of a disruptive new idea as a result of scientific breakthroughs, which in turn, begat new creativity and disruptive innovation. The concept of diffusion of innovations usually refers to the spread of ideas from one society to another or from a focus or institution within a society to other parts of that society. As is typical in this series of lectures, we will concentrate on particularly dramatic cases of diffusion between societies to illustrate the main processes. Many of the same principles will apply to the spread of ideas within a society. The value of extreme examples is that they often reveal processes in more pure and stark form than less extreme cases.
Diffusion of innovations between societies is one of the most important processes in cultural evolution. The diffusion of innovations is important because it is relatively hard to invent (or develop) many kinds of useful knowledge. Complex techniques example maize farming are combinations of many skills, and develop over a long period of time. It is usually difficult to invent all the requisite parts in the right order, foresee the advantage of nascent new technology. It may also require a special environment or a historical/cultural preadaptation to make the earliest steps of an invention possible. It is usually much easier to acquire all but the simplest skills from someone else than it is to try to invent them for yourself. The possibility of non-parental transmission, combined with the existence of various types of biases, means that humans can selectively borrow ideas from other societies can attempt to guide the evolution of our culture. As a consequence, societies trade ideas and techniques, as well as disease organisms, genes, and commodities. Elements of the costly information hypothesis are well exemplified by the diffusion of innovations process.
Proper references :
1). http://innovation.my/
2). http://www.yim.my/
3). http://www.ivytech.edu/northwest/Innovation/continuum.html
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