I require some assistance

[Bastet]

Well howdy! You've opened the thread, that's a good start... Anyway, I'm doing a Certificate course through my workplace, and I have come to a section that requires some input from other people. I tried to ask my workmates, but the majority of them either didn't want to answer, or didn't have the capacity to. They're not hard questions, and if anyone would like to answer them, you'd be a great help to me. The chapter I'm working on is about Innovation. Ok, here goes:

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Thanks everyone!

 

[SoulTYPE]

Innovation - the desire to achieve and prosper

Not really. I only Aim for what I want, not what others tell me.

Yes they can learn because it builds new skills, opens you up more as a perrson and can lead to something new.

 

[No*s]

Well howdy! You've opened the thread, that's a good start... Anyway, I'm doing a Certificate course through my workplace, and I have come to a section that requires some input from other people. I tried to ask my workmates, but the majority of them either didn't want to answer, or didn't have the capacity to. They're not hard questions, and if anyone would like to answer them, you'd be a great help to me. The chapter I'm working on is about Innovation. Ok, here goes:

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Thanks everyone!

1. An innovation as a modification or the introduction of a new element into a system. Since I get really annoyed with not having text-highlighting when typing posts here, I may well modify my html.vim file to give me what I want.

The change is innovation.

2. Am I? It really depends on the setting. I try not to be innovative in religion. However, in other areas, I have been known to do it. However, how much I do this is an open question. I am innovative at least to a degree.

3. Yes. Learning how to trouble-shoot and practice critical thinking will do that quite nicely .

 

[Bastet]

Thanks guys! I didn't expect such quick responses! I still need a few more people though, so others, don't be afraid to jump in here too. :woohoo:

 

[Master Vigil]

Hmmm... 1. definition - creating something new from what you've got already.

2. Yes, my philosophy and spiritual practices are "new" but taken from many other places and made my own.

3. Sure why not, they first need the tools, imagination, and wonder. They also need to be able to look at something and critique it, and finally think for themselves. Be able to formulate ideas with good knowledge and research of what you are innovating.

I hope that is good.

 

[Pah]

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Thanks everyone!

I believe that inovation is a new way to look at a problem or process or do things differently

Yes, but in a limited sense. I do try to phrase my arguments from different perspectives and from new data. I re-model the house in my mind and have put a gate into the deck railing to facilitate bringing things in from outside without using the steps. (directly from tailgate to deck)

Yes but I think it takes special training to open the mind and think "outside the box".

 

[Bastet]

That's great, Master Vigil - thank you!

 

[Bastet]

Thanks, pah!

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Whoops, by copying your message, I seem to have stolen your font. Sorry!

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

Innovation is modifying what you have to better suit your purposes.

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

Yes. (I think.) I enjoy taking ideas, things, and philosophies and tinkering with them. Sometimes they work out to be worse than the original, but they are modified!

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Yes, and I would say that all they would need to learn would be to adapt and to improve.

 

[Majikthise]

Well howdy! You've opened the thread, that's a good start... Anyway, I'm doing a Certificate course through my workplace, and I have come to a section that requires some input from other people. I tried to ask my workmates, but the majority of them either didn't want to answer, or didn't have the capacity to. They're not hard questions, and if anyone would like to answer them, you'd be a great help to me. The chapter I'm working on is about Innovation. Ok, here goes:

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Thanks everyone!

1.innovation: A new invention or idea or an improvement to one of these.

2.Yes. When i worked as maintenance mechanic at a plastic molding plant I had to improvise new tools to do particular jobs and modify existing machinery.
In this forum I enjoy trying to offer new ideas.

3.Yes.But it can also be inborn talent.One must learn to extrapolate,simply.It does not matter what the subject or application is.


Well,just figured I'd give it a shot,hope it helps.

 

[Bastet]

Thanks, Feathers! You can highlight your text and change it back to black when that happens.

 

[Bastet]

Thank you, Majikthise (I don't think I'll ever forget your name, since Soul called you 'Magic Thighs' lol).

Everyone has been great - I've gotten more answers here in 10 minutes than I did in half an hour at work.

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Hehee, I kinda liked the color, though! I felt like I was doing an impression of you!

 

[meogi]

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Thanks everyone!

1.) Innovation - A new, useful idea/item or a radical improvement on a current idea/item.

2.) Gah, yes and no... being a computer science major, I have to create my own code to achieve a certain outcome... sometimes it works and is useful, other times it doesn't... then again, many of the problems I've had to face, have been worked to death and are pretty much in *perfect* form, regardless of how I chose to solve it. In the future, when working for a company or somesuch, I plan on creating my own things to help whatever our goal is.

As for normal, day to day life though, I just tend to lay back and let other people do the innovating for me

3) Sure, not necessarily in an inventive sense, but definitely in improvement of currently existing things. Teach them the process of how things improve, how it has worked and hasn't worked in the past. It's not gonna work for everyone... but it does work. Japan is a great example - they are the world's greatest "improvers." Smaller, easier, more convenient, or if in a nich market, more complex/specific options/controls.

An example: The guy (as if it was one person, a group of people together are generally your best innoavite 'guy') who made the CD was innovative. So was the guy who upped the capacity, and the guy who made it easier to burn them, and read them faster. Then came the guy who did DVD's. Someone else came along and did BlueRay, WHILE someone else is working on HD-DVD's. Both improvements are innovative, while one may end up dominating the market.

 

[retrorich]

Well howdy! You've opened the thread, that's a good start... Anyway, I'm doing a Certificate course through my workplace, and I have come to a section that requires some input from other people. I tried to ask my workmates, but the majority of them either didn't want to answer, or didn't have the capacity to. They're not hard questions, and if anyone would like to answer them, you'd be a great help to me. The chapter I'm working on is about Innovation. Ok, here goes:

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Thanks everyone!

1. Innovation is the creation of something new.

2. I am innovative in my writing and in finding ways to make people laugh, but in many areas I am conventional, even retro (hence my username: retrorich).

3. I think you can learn to be innovative to a degree, but for the most part I think it is a quality you are born with.

 

[mrscardero]

1. Write down what you think 'Innovation' is (i.e. a definition...try to avoid using a dictionary - your own words, please!)

Innovation= I N N O V A T I O N = Innovation; Being creative, or having new ideas, learning new ways to improve.

2. Are you an innovative person? (Yes/No) Why or why not?

Yes. I like to be creative specially in my workplace. I am the cook so when we are lacking in creating meals, I tend to get bright ideas and make meals that are not even thought of. I like to experiment. I like to create meals that are easy to make and also cheap. I like to learn to improve.

3. Can people learn to be innovative? (Yes/No) What do they need to learn?

Thanks everyone!

People are doing it all the time and sometimes don't know it. But yes. People can be innovative. Learn? They can learn from their past. Like a relationship. You can be innovative by learning from your past relationship. You can be innovative with your eyes closed.

It's early. I am starting to loosen up my brain.

 

[Scuba Pete]

Innovation... thinking outside of the circle

Am I? Bwahahaha! I am not even allowed in most circles.

Can it be taught? Not formally. But reward and empower and watch things take off. Catch someone doing something right, make a HUGE deal out of it and watch them try to redo their success. It is way cool to watch.

 

[Bastet]

Thanks everyone!

 

[SoulTYPE]

Anything for the Bastet.

 

[Bastet]

I just had to come post this...my stars for today:

You're looking for something different today as you are attracted to ideas that are out of the ordinary. You could, however, overlook important details as you strive for originality. Don't worry so much about being innovative. Instead, concern yourself with being sensible. Your brilliant flashes of inspiration must be applied in a limited fashion for the most positive impact.

:biglaugh: All this talk of innovation...