Innovation Paradigm Replaced

Preface

Figure 1 Joseph Mallard William Turner (1838) Fighting Temeraire

Innovation Paradigm Replaced

Preface

When viewing Turner’s Fighting Temeraire or Michelangelo’s David, few would doubt the ability of art to inspire. The emotion engendered by the final departure of a proud warship tugged to its end or David’s tangible curves, smoothed from solid marble, are without parallel. However art’s exclusivity is also its fundamental weakness. Art has high barriers to entry; it requires inspiration, imagination, learned skills and innate abilities. Worse still at the highest level these skill combinations are extremely limited. Each generation is lucky to produce a handful of great artists.
Innovation too, is said to need inspiration, imagination, learned skills and innate abilities. Innovation is considered an art. This book maintains that Innovation cannot afford such exclusivity and this paradigm must be replaced. The alternative is to sit and wait for the next Great Master of Innovation like Darwin, Maxwell and Einstein or Technologists like Edison, Ford and Deming. Innovation need have no lofty goals and only one entry qualification, that it is useful.

This blog applies that qualification throughout, it is written to be useful - not true. A probability, not a fact. It draws your attention to the similarity and analogy between events not simply the facts themselves. On reflection it can be seen that all life is a “probability wave” not a predetermined equation. Even the great truths of Classical Physics bend before the Mechanics of the Quantum scale. No photon or electron is ever more precise than the occasion demands but you need not look to know where it will be, it will go where it is expected. Similarly the mind paints an impression of life with the gentle shades of memory conjured from the elements of experience. Precision is slow and unhelpful when you need to reuse recollections in fresh settings.

This blog is a probability wave that lowers the bar on innovation by showing how ideas can be conjured at will to go where they are expected.

posted by Waldo Hitcher @ 3:21 AM