Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Take some time to think…
Individuals
How do you bring about innovation in your daily work?
Executives
How do you induce innovative mentality within the team?
Organizations
How do you implement the innovation and entrepreneurship for the organization sustainability?
Society
How does the community and citizens benefit from the social innovation?
What experts say about Change
Ms. Carol Lam
President and Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett Greater China
The Advertising Industry
Part 1: The Creativing standards
Part 2: Discovering the joy of work
Failure should always be considered
a symptom of an innovative opportunity,
and taken seriously as such.
– Peter F. Drucker
(Adapted from “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, P.49)
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
– Peter F. Drucker
Drucker Articles Excerpt
“The Dos of innovation”
Innovation is both conceptual and perceptual.
The second imperative of innovation is therefore to go out to look, to ask, to listen.
This cannot be stressed too often. Successful innovators use both the right side and left side of their brains.
They look at figures, and they look at people.
They work out analytically what the innovation has to be to satisfy an opportunity.
And then they go out and look at the customers, the users,
to see what their expectations, their values, their needs are.
An innovation, to be effective, has to be simple and it has to be focused.
It should do only one thing, otherwise, it confuses.
If it is not simple, it won’t work.
Everything runs into trouble; if complicated, it cannot be repaired or fixed.
All effective innovations are breathtakingly simple.
Indeed, the greatest praise an innovation can receive is for people to say:
“This is obvious. Why didn’t I think of it?”
(Adapted from “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, P.135)
Self-reflections
What is the nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
Actions
List my actions for bringing out innovation.