“oh this is going to be addictive”
That was tweet #38 from Twitter co-developer, Dom Sagolla on March 21, 2006, the date Twitter was officially launched as a web-based application.
Truer words were never spoken. I started Innovation in Practice on December 2, 2007. This month marks its four year anniversary. The title of my first post was “Innovation is a Skill, Not a Gift.”
The themes of this blog are:
I also taught innovation to a group of special needs students at the Hughes High School in Cincinnati. I had twenty five students, all with various issues such as autism and ADHD. The result was the same. One student used multiplication on a flashlight. He made a copy of the on/off button. I asked him to explain the benefit of having a second button. He said, “The second button is used to change the brightness of the light.” Not bad for a kid named Ryan with Down Syndrome.
For next year, I plan to continue blogging The LAB series. This is my way of practicing with the method and exposing new uses to my readers. In 2011, I used S.I.T. to innovate: the pricing process, a light switch, new product launch, software, corporate training program, pharmaceuticals, a treadmill, cosmetics, Facebook, inflight services, and a book.
Speaking of book, that is another goal for next year: we plan to publish a book that teaches people how to use Systematic Inventive Thinking. No firm date yet.
I want to thank Jacob Goldenberg, Amnon Levav, Yoni Stern, and the entire team at S.I.T.. Also, Christie Nordhielm and Marta Dapena-Baron at Big Picture Partners, Bob Cialdini at Influence at Work, Yury Boshyk at Global Executive Learning Network, the Washington Speakers Bureau, and my fellow faculty at the UC Lindner College of Business.
I thank all of you for reading this blog. I wish you the best in 2012.
Drew
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