Some of the new innovation ideas are using Google and Bing for Marketing. People use the search engines for quick and efficient searches. Google and Bing along with others are using the search engines as a marketing tool to get their ideas out there. Millions of people use the internet and businessess are finding it a quicker way to get a jump on competition and reaching a whole new age of buyers.
Along with the search engines, we have cell phones that can receive the internet and social networks on the phone.
Look at the fax machines we have at school. Thousands of words are transferred over many miles to a single sheet of paper by the press of a button. Innovation is all around us if we just bother to look.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Innovation Journal #1
9/30/10
Discuss your level of creativity and innovation skills as of today. How would you rate yourself? Why are you creative? Why not? Why are you innovative? Why not?
I believe I have a high level of creativity. I think of myself as a person who has talents in certain areas. I like to draw, write, and oil paint. Each thing I do takes practice and more practice. I know I am not up there with the big time artists but who cares. The things I do make me happy and contented and that is all I care about right now. I do think I am at least a 7 or 8 when it comes to creativity.
Innovation, well I don't believe I am that innovative. I would say maybe a 4 or 5 when it comes to innovation. The reason I believe that is because it takes me a very long time to come up with ideas. I am not an analytic person and I really have to try hard to see something other than what it appears to be. One of the barriers I face is my own thinking and rethinking until I think it to death. I guess I am my own worst enemy when it comes to coming up with new ideas. I also think my self worth has a lot to do with it. I worry about being the one who thinks out side the box. The reading in our text confirms that this can definitely be a barrier to innovation. I am one who will have to try very hard to change my way of thinking.
I think the readings and activities we do in class will be a start for me to change my way of thinking. I think I will learn how to view things differently. Understanding innovation is becoming easier with the more I read about it.
(See next post for what types of innovation are occurring around you)
Discuss your level of creativity and innovation skills as of today. How would you rate yourself? Why are you creative? Why not? Why are you innovative? Why not?
I believe I have a high level of creativity. I think of myself as a person who has talents in certain areas. I like to draw, write, and oil paint. Each thing I do takes practice and more practice. I know I am not up there with the big time artists but who cares. The things I do make me happy and contented and that is all I care about right now. I do think I am at least a 7 or 8 when it comes to creativity.
Innovation, well I don't believe I am that innovative. I would say maybe a 4 or 5 when it comes to innovation. The reason I believe that is because it takes me a very long time to come up with ideas. I am not an analytic person and I really have to try hard to see something other than what it appears to be. One of the barriers I face is my own thinking and rethinking until I think it to death. I guess I am my own worst enemy when it comes to coming up with new ideas. I also think my self worth has a lot to do with it. I worry about being the one who thinks out side the box. The reading in our text confirms that this can definitely be a barrier to innovation. I am one who will have to try very hard to change my way of thinking.
I think the readings and activities we do in class will be a start for me to change my way of thinking. I think I will learn how to view things differently. Understanding innovation is becoming easier with the more I read about it.
(See next post for what types of innovation are occurring around you)
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