Ideas to Actionable Ideas
During my recent interaction with the leadership team, I was introduced to the Idea broad, which housed various ideas… Those that are to be pursued those in pursuit and those that are abandoned. The list is ever growing and being reformed, sometimes trimmed, sometimes replaced but, changing, mostly.
We all want to innovate, innovate to make things better or satisfy our growing needs or may be even for survival. Our innovation is to solve a problem that we have or to make our life easier, for betterment in general. And to achieve this, we need ideas. Idea generation does not just mean that we assimilate new ideas into our existing thinking. Rather, we need to be willing to let go. We need to let go of those orthodoxies in our mind, challenge them and stop them from coming on way to innovation. The more we learn to let go off the conventions, the more can we accommodate, the more skilled we become at rethinking our thinking, which is arguably the most important innovation…idea generation skill that we can have.
While we are having several ideas now, it becomes important to test if the idea is actionable. Am I proceeding in the direction for which I come up with the idea? In my humble opinion, we must spend a substantial amount of time analyzing and testing if the idea is leading me towards the goal. It is better to have one valuable idea than a big volume of ideas. …. And the result, we have an Actionable Idea Board, don’t we
