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Innovation, Innovation Management, Innovation, Innovation Management, Innovation, Innovation Management The Jazz of Innovation
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 encourage improvisation.
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 in his researches 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.
Fast Company
magazine calls IDEO "the world's most celebrated
design firm.“
When David Kelley began IDEO, he was determined to
forego the structural demands of big corporations
and refused to install a management hierarchy. His
first order of business was to create an environment
in which his workers would be happy and free to
think creatively. Mostly, Kelley's style is
hands-off, allowing employees to become their own
bosses. At IDEO, there is no corporate hierarchy and
no management structure. Employees are invited, not
ordered, to attend meetings, and can also decide
where they want to work and can tell the CEO what
they really think of his ideas. Out of this chaos
have come products that have made a deep impact on
society. (Virtual
Advisor Inc.)
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