| Why do we love new gadgets? Why did the | | | | products of mere luck or just the natural |
| Renaissance marked as the period when history, | | | | consequences of interwoven events. They may come |
| science, philosophy and religion has become so | | | | from unexpected occurrences but the fact that people |
| prominent that the ideologies used at this period is still | | | | who initiated the innovations took the risks of using |
| being used until today? Why is it that we recognize | | | | changes for a seemingly inappropriate stuff is |
| those people who aimed for change and the others | | | | something that deserves admiration. |
| who have settled themselves with mediocrity are | | | | Ford realized the potential of the automobile market |
| disregarded? Why? | | | | through the failure of Edsel. Thus, the birth of the |
| Simple. Because they shed new light on what | | | | Mustang. Another good example is the way things are |
| everyone else thought as final and dormant. | | | | anticipated. Everyone knew in 1970's that population |
| They change things radically and they created | | | | would boom and that people would go after prioritizing |
| improvements that are way beyond the limits of what | | | | education in the near future. But only Japan took action |
| was presently thought of. | | | | to create new technologies to support these future |
| Central to innovation is the ability to think outside the | | | | changes. Thus, they created robots to supplement for |
| box. This way, you will find newer modes of | | | | the needs. We may view things differently now |
| discovering what was previously discovered. To | | | | because we are already in the actual situation as seen |
| creating new stuffs from old. To extracting new ideas | | | | before but during those days, this idea of creating |
| from classic ones. When we say innovation, its not just | | | | robots is something that was often dismissed, if not |
| the ability to create solutions from nowhere but to | | | | laughed at. |
| create them from seemingly old things, only creativity | | | | While innovation has a general concept surrounding it, it |
| was applied to them. | | | | still has various issues to resolve through its many |
| The box is the normal way of dealing with things. It is | | | | types. |
| what every one does because it is the common | | | | One type of innovation is process innovation. This |
| notion. It is what most people don't want doing but | | | | deals with bringing benefits through changing some of |
| have no other choice but to go with the flow. It is said | | | | the already-established processes involved. |
| to be the assumptions that the majority takes. Thus, | | | | Product innovation, on the other hand, is the type that |
| the only best way to deal with this assumption is to go | | | | resolves innovation through creating new products |
| against with it. Be aware though that once you do, you | | | | from old ideas or new products from new ideas, |
| have to be firm with what you have set out o do. | | | | depending on how the initiator deals with the condition. |
| Often, going beyond the box means scrutiny, ridicule | | | | This is true with Motorola RZAR mobile phones which |
| and unbelief from other people. And these very things | | | | did not only bring new phone models into the market |
| make an innovator. | | | | but also created a new niche. |
| You can call innovation as something close to being | | | | Additionally, positioning innovation is the type that |
| wild, crazy and extremely foolish. But these fellows | | | | changes the branding of a certain product through |
| here do not suggest that they often fail. In fact, many | | | | switching. |
| of the craziest ideas helped zoom a product or two in | | | | Lastly, the Paradigm Innovation is the type that |
| the market. | | | | changes things radically through catering needs by |
| Take for instance some of the greatest achievements | | | | turning something into another thing that is more |
| that rooted from crazy innovations. Take not though | | | | feasibly good in the market. |
| that some people would eagerly tell you that these are | | | | |