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Challenges Businesses Face in Implementing Ideas The journey from idea to implementation is rarely straightforward. While generatingideas can be an inspiring and creativeprocess, executing them often uncovers a host of challenges that can derail even the most promising concepts.
We will start with a quick brush-up: ideation is a creativeprocess for generating and exchanging new ideas. These can be ideas on how to best resolve a customer problem, ideas on how to quickly seize an opportunity or even ideas on reinventing an organization’s business model. What is ideation?
Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring ideageneration phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. Or doing something completely unrelated to the task at hand. Take a shot at it now. Is it working?
Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring ideageneration phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. Or doing something completely unrelated to the task at hand. Take a shot at it now. Is it working?
Just like a gardener needs a hose without holes to water their plants, so do the creative people in your organization need a hole-free way to bring their ideas to fruition. Spontaneous ideageneration is great. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. That's not the problem.
Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring ideageneration phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. Or doing something completely unrelated to the task at hand. That is unfortunate. Is it working?
Just like a gardener needs a hose without holes to water their plants, so do the creative people in your organization need a hole-free way to bring their ideas to fruition. Spontaneous ideageneration is great. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. That's not the problem.
Curiously, most companies do not have any kind of dependable process in place for leveraging this naturally occurring ideageneration phenomenon. And because they don't, many awesome ideas never get planted in your garden. Or doing something completely unrelated to the task at hand. Take a shot at it now. Is it working?
Just like a gardener needs a hose without holes to water their plants, so do the creative people in your organization need a hole-free way to bring their ideas to fruition. Spontaneous ideageneration is great. So are brainstorming sessions, late night noodling, and creative off-sites. That's not the problem.
Gregg is a Visiting Innovation Scholar at Notre Dame, and is the author of Jack’s Notebook , a business novel about structured creativeprocess. He’s a thought leader and a highly experienced hands-on innovator. Fun, then Serious Results.
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