Innovation through subtraction

Wow.. a great post from Tim Kastelle on Innovation Excellence. Tim is aligning his current reading about the natural world with innovation concepts, such as his recent post on the Coelacanth. This latest post is about the multi-dimensional insights a drawing (of a caracel) provides, as opposed to a photograph in understanding the subject. Good innovators, he argues, understand their customers similarly without the need for focus groups.

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Better process means better innovation

This excerpt is part of a larger post by Dr Tim Kastelle from UQ.

It is from Chess Champion Gary Kasparov commenting on the winners from a 2005 Chess tournament which allowed human and computers to enter as hybrid teams. The winners were amateur players using modest equipment with a superior process. He said:

"Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process."

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Willing to be weird?

A post from Dr Tim Kastelle:

I think that to successfully innovate, we have to be willing to be weird. We must be prepared to succeed unconventionally, namely:

1. Reward people that come up with the weirdest ideas
2. Be extra vigilant for conventional failures
3. Make it risky to not test out new ideas

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