Thinking About Innovation

Finally!

The Swedish site is now working!

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Hello Seth!

First of all I would like to Welcome you to my blog!

This domain is temporarily, usually you will find my blog at www.tankarominnovation.com but I’m transferring it to a new web hotel and I have experienced some problems. Luckily I also own this domain so you will be able to find almost every post here instead. My plan is to also start to write in English in the future, that is why I have registered the English domain too. I have already started to translate some of the posts.

If you are curious about what I have written about you in the past you can go check it out here.

Thank you very much for listening to me and I hope to hear from you.

Josephine

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This video is about how the world changes and that we often don’t see that. A lot of things have happened the last 20-40 years, health and economy has improved rapidly in some countries. This video shows Hans Rosling, professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, talking about statistics. Sounds interesting? No? I’ll assure it is. He starts by showing you that Swedish top-students are more stupid than monkeys. That, I’m not proud of but if you watch the clip you will understand why.

Gapminder is a good example of a really innovative idea. It ables you to show statistics in an interesting way.

Remember to visit Ted for more videos.

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I have heard that people like status quo, that we don’t like change, that we want to continue as we always have. That sounds reasonable, a lot of people don’t want to change. But I read this book “Leading change” by Kotter and he has an example that contradict that theori. He says that if you ask a person if he or she would like to have 10 million dollars, that person would say yes. Even though there is plenty of evidence that people who win a lot of money change their life a lot. But if people didn’t like change they wouldn’t accept the money. The gist is that people don’t want to change when they don’t benefit from it but they are very open to change when it’s good for them. (Kotter, 1998, s.117). I believe in that.

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When you fail, you often try to figure out why to prevent to do the same mistakes again. But do you know what you should do? Every time you succeed you should do the same. Make a analysis of what went well and the you can learn from that and hopefully you will succeed again.

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”Don’t worry about people stealing your idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”

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I’m back. I had a wonderful time in Egypt. The food was very good and very cheep, the people were incredibly nice and there was a lot of things that you could entertain yourself with. I can defiantly recommend Egypt.

Okay, let’s start working! One of my favorite blogs are Seth Godins’s. Today I found a very interesting video with him.

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“It’s easy to underestimate how difficult it is for someone to become curious. That for seven, ten, fifteen years of school you are required to not be curious. Over over and over again the curious are punished.”

“They start realizing that the safest thing they can do feels risky and the riskiest thing they can do is to play it safe.”

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The best thing to do when you just started a blog is probably not to go away for a week. But this is exactly what I’m planning. Traveling is a big passion for me, especially when it’s cold in Sweden.

Earlier this week I found some great tickets to Egypt and now I’m leaving tomorrow. It’s just a regular charter but I think me and my friends can make an adventure out of it.

Hopefully I will have some great stories to tell you about when I get back!

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David Batra came to our university to talk about innovation and creativity. Since he is a stand-up comedian (who went to business school before he got famous) the speech was both fun and interesting.

Here is a list of things I liked:

1) Ideas is best when they come from you and when you do the things you love.

2) Decorate you office like how it would be if it was a cabin/hut/shack. Remember your childhood, life should be fun!

3) If you want to live like a grown up, do that, but if you don’t, you don’t have to.

4) Play charter. Try to look at your everyday life with new eyes, you know, the way you do when you are traveling. You look at everything and you get enthusiastic about normal things.

5) It is in the everyday life and in the really boring things that you can find the fun. A lot of good ideas has started as a joke.

6) If people laugh at your idea, it could be a good sign, or a bad one. Don’t give up just because people find it silly.

7) Don’t be afraid to fail.

8) It is the one that owns the problem at usually has the solution.

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Innovate or die is a new contest that just got a winner.

Make something useful out of pedals.

This is the winner.

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This post is dedicated to my mum.

Do you want to know more about the features, take a look at this guide. My favorite is the Multi-touch-control.

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Business Week wrote this week about what not to do in a recession.

“Innovation is the driver of performance, growth and stock market valuation.”

Do not do this:

1) Fire talent. “Talent is the single most important variable in innovation.”

2) Cut back on technology.

3) Reduce Risk. “Innovation requires taking chances and dealing with failure.”

4) Stop New Product Development.

5) Boards Replace Growth-Oriented CEOs with Cost-Cutting CEOs.

6) Companies Retreat From Globalization.

7) CEOs Replace Innovation As Key Strategy.

8) Performance Metrics Are Changed.

9) Hierarchy Is Reinforced Over Collaboration.

10) Retreat Into Walled Castles.

What do you think? Do you agree?

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I just remembered hearing that you shouldn’t speak in negations. The mind is just not very good at processing not and never. You will remember the things you where supposed not to remember. Sometimes it is good though to start at backward/up-side-down list to be creative but you should always “translate” it back to a positiv list before you use it.

I would like to make the list again, but this time “10 things to do in a recession”.

Do this:

1) Keep talents.

2) Continue to invest in technology.

3) Continue to take risks.

4) Continue with new product development.

5) Keep Growth-Oriented CEOs.

6) Continue to work with globalization.

7) Innovation is always the key strategy.

8) Reward those who work with high risk projects.

9) Collaboration is important especially for the generation X and Y. (and you want to keep them)

10) Collaborate with other companies, consultants and people. Remember your network.

So if you are going to do all this, where are you supposed to save the money? I can just come up with one idea and that is to be more effective. Try to find your weaknesses, where do you loose time, energy and money? There is always old stuff that will hold you back. Find them and eliminate them.

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Have you ever thought about when the future is?

The answer is amazingly easy if you want to believe Nicklas Lundblad’s ideas. The future is in 20 years. That is the future that is relevant to most people. Most living people today is interested in how the world will be in 20 years. At the same time it is so many years that it is impossible to guess how the world has developed.

I have always been interested in the future and have always been speculating about it. I’m now talking about technology, inventions, and thoughts (not about my own life). To be able to go to the future and take a look is a dream to me. Imagine 20 years from now, what will they have that we have not?

You can almost say that I live in my own future. Not that I could think too many smart thoughts 20 years ago. But not me or anyone else could have imagine the world as it is today, 2008, 20 years ago..

Nicklas also wrote a article about this. Unfortunately it is in Swedish but for you lucky ones out there who can understand it -enjoy. “Den långa framtiden”

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Hi!

My name is Josephine Linghammar. I’ve been blogging for a year in Swedish. But for some reason I decided, just a minute ago, that I should do it in English too. The plan is that the English and Swedish one should be almost identical. Because I’m a bit self conscious I will not tell Sweden about me writing in English, so please don’t tell anyone ; ) (But if you can read Swedish I will recommend you to visit the Swedish one)

So, who am I? And what have I been writing about for a year? I study at a university in Sweden, and I’m currently in my second year. I take Psychology and Innovation technology and I love ‘em both. That means that it is exactly this I will be writing about. Oh yeah and creativity of course, which is also one of my favorite subjects.

This was the introduction, now, let’s roll!

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