Coming Up With Ideas and Converting Them Into Innovative Business Activities
By: Vadim Kotelnikov
Inventor, Author, and Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach – Innovation Unlimited, and Fun4Biz.com – Entrepreneurial Creativity Paradise
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"The best way to forecast the future is to invent it!" – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman |
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Entrepreneurial Creativity Defined Entrepreneurial Creativity is about coming up with innovative ideas and turning them into value-creating profitable business activities. Entrepreneurial creativity = creativity × entrepreneurial action. "Entrepreneur is a person who habitually creates and innovates to build something of recognized value around perceived opportunities.1 In this definition of the Entrepreneur, "creates" means starting from scratch and bringing into being something that was not there before.
6 Barriers To Creative Thinking and Innovation Negative Attitude: The tendency to focus on the negative aspects of problems and expend energy on worry... More Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success
Milestones Completed and Future Plans: "There's a way to do it better – find it." – Thomas Edison... MoreThe Power of Your Cross-functional Expertise Your mind can accept only those ideas that have a frame of reference with your existing knowledge. It rejects everything else. If your knowledge is functionally focused, you'll be open to new ideas related to your functional expertise only and will miss all other learning and innovation opportunities. If you develop a broad cross-functional expertise, no new idea will be wasted. It will immediately connect with the existing knowledge and will inspire you, energize you, and encourage your entrepreneurial creativity. The broader your net, the more fish you can catch... More DOs and DON'Ts of a Successful Innovator By: Peter Drucker
DOs:
Start small – try to do one
specific thing... DON'Ts: Don't undershoot, or you will simply create an opportunity for competition... More The Art of Innovation: 9 Truths By: Guy Kawasaki
By James Allen, the Author of As a Man ThinkethFor true success ask yourself these four questions:
Don't ask one or two questions and then rush straight towards a solution. With an incomplete understanding of the problem it is very easy to jump to wrong conclusions. Ask open-ended questions that elicit a wide rage of answers:
Changes – a Source of Opportunities Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs. Doing new things, or doing old things in new ways is how entrepreneurs exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. entrepreneurs see change as the norm and as healthy; they always search for change, respond to it, and exploit it as an opportunity. Innovation can be approached methodically, by a purposeful and organized search for changes and by identifying the opportunities that such changes might offer. In your search, focus on opportunities, not problems, these changes can bring along. Results come from exploiting opportunities, not solving problems.
Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements Empowered Employees (Metal):
12 Breakthrough Ideas for the New Economy Source: Harvard Economic Review Executive summary by Anastasia Bibikova. The best ideas related to the practice of management. If you know somebody has used them, don’t try to repeat. Simply consider them, debate them and let them inspire your own thinking!... 2. Monopoly on Creativity: What is nowadays’ key economic resource? It was proved that only creative people can “reach the moon” and make the company flourish... More Continuous Innovative Activity
"Creativity
is a continuous activity for the
entrepreneur, always seeing new ways of
doing things with little concern for how difficult they might be or whether
the resources are available. But the creativity in the entrepreneur is
combined with the ability to innovate, to take the idea and make it work in
practice.
This seeing something through to the end and not being satisfied
until all is accomplished is a central
motivation
for the entrepreneur.
Milestones completed and future plans: "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." – Albert Einstein... MoreHow To Achieve High Visibility In Your Target Market: 10 Strategic Tips By: Glenn Ebersole Strategic Tip #4: DO commit to and be an idea generator. Highly visible people are seen as resources and people who can really help move a business, an organization and/or ideas forward... More
Thinking Outside the Box... Lateral Thinking.... Systemic Thinking... Key Entrepreneurial Tasks... Be a Negative Optimist... Creative Problem Solving... Creative Thinking Tests... 10 Steps of Creativity... Asking Searching Questions... 10 Steps to Turning Your Ideas / Inventions into Big Cash Wealth... Taking Action... Managing Creativity in Your Business Environment... Managing Ideas... Managing Radical Innovation... Making Accidental Discoveries a Habit... Tips for Forcing Combinations... Take a Different View... Pursuing Opportunities... Five Steps toward Entrepreneurial Creativity... The Tao of Entrepreneurial Creativity... Case in Point Ford Motor Company... Case in Point The Power of Attitude... Case in Point Half.com... Case in Point Coco Chanel...
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