SVII Workshops
Innovation is not taught as much as learned
Innovation more of an art than a science. As such, it is inherently of greater dimension than linear algorithmic approaches can encompass. Any activity carried to its highest level is an art. Innovation is taking creativity to its highest level. This implies a level of mastery, which is uncommon and whose practice is best transmitted through the time-honored tradition of modeling successful behavior. If one wants to become accomplished in a field it is customary to work with one who has already demonstrated some level of mastery in this field and absorb the lessons through observing and participating in the successful behavior.
Core Workshop in Innovation Architecture Management
An Innovation Culture can be built upon a shared conscious model of the Innovation Process. Once there is a clearly articulated and conscious model there is something to manage to. Managing Innovation is somewhat like flying an airplane - much of the time one is not on course, but by having a declared course it becomes possible to either return to it, or to declare a new course and then strive toward completing it..
If managing is like piloting, then architecting is like providing an infrastructure with it's own equivalent of airports, planes and fuel. The company is the airport, the team is the plane and the passionately conceived of ideas are the fuel.
Arriving at the destination is manifesting the insight in a form that has value, usually but not always, monetary. When management adopts an innovation architecture, it becomes more effective at managing innovation.
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."-- Michelangelo