{"id":8255,"date":"2020-03-19T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-prod.qad.com\/blog\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2020-03-19T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:41:45","slug":"turning-new-and-creative-ideas-into-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/turning-new-and-creative-ideas-into-innovation","title":{"rendered":"Turning New and Creative Ideas into Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8257&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.\u201d <\/span><\/i><b><i>\u2015 <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antony_Jay\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antony Jay<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, writer, broadcaster and director<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the hardest parts of innovation is figuring out where you need to innovate, and the areas that need it the most. Everybody on a product team has their own ideas of ways in which the product can be better and the best ways to implement updates or fixes. But everybody approaches the issue through their own lens. Here\u2019s a look at some typical departmental lenses:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Sales:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The last deal they lost.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Support:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Recent customer problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Implementation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Go live faster.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Marketing:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What the competition is doing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>R&amp;D:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Interesting to work on.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Finance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cost to develop.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Training:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The questions\/concerns customers have.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The worst thing is when everybody thinks they know what\u2019s wrong with a new idea. \u201cWe already tried that and it didn\u2019t work\u201d is a perennial favorite. \u201cToo expensive,\u201d is another. There\u2019s no shortage of viewpoints, and almost everyone can articulate reasons why all the other viewpoints are wrong. And they\u2019re all probably right, in one way or another. But is that considered <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/small-yet-mighty-thoughts-on-innovation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">innovation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asking the Right Questions Doesn\u2019t Always Garner Innovative Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If by some chance the team agrees on the right question (or questions) to ask\u2014the right problem to solve\u2014you can be certain it\u2019s not innovation. If everybody sees the need for something, it\u2019s not innovation, it\u2019s table stakes\u2014because all your competitors are most likely already doing whatever it takes to achieve a solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just because an idea isn\u2019t innovative doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t do the things people suggest. You should. Just don\u2019t pat yourselves on the back for being innovators. As Antony Jay said in the quote above, it\u2019s easy to spot the wrong answer. If it was easy to figure out what to do next, innovation would not be such a highly prized commodity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovation Often Comes from the Questions Nobody has Asked Yet<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think of Steve Jobs inventing the iPad. It\u2019s hard to believe that the ubiquitous device made its debut in April of 2010. That said, in just ten short years, it\u2019s become indispensable to millions of people, and spawned countless imitators. But before trying it, who knew they needed an iPad? Only Steve Jobs, one of the all-time great innovators. He asked the question nobody else had thought of yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before Joseph Orlicky of IBM came up with the concept of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/solutions\/qad-digital-supply-chain-planningddmrp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">material requirements planning (MRP)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who knew manufacturers needed a system to calculate net-demand? Weren\u2019t reorder points and safety stock good enough? Yes, they were, until he invented the netting algorithm. The pace of manufacturing took off, paving the way for reduced costs, increased efficiency and global supply chains. He asked the right question to change the face of manufacturing forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/taiichi-ohno-toyota-production-system\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taiichi Ohno<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thought of delivering inventory exactly when and where it\u2019s needed, he too, was asking a question nobody else had thought to ask. Before Just-in-Time (JIT), having a lot of inventory\u2014called Just-in-Case\u2014was a good thing. But what if manufacturers didn\u2019t have to store, protect or count inventory?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reaching Beyond Existing Solutions to Innovate<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovation isn\u2019t necessarily the result of asking the right questions. It\u2019s the result of asking the \u201cwhat-if&#8230;\u201d and \u201ccould we&#8230;\u201d questions instead of the straightforward and easy ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Product teams and committees typically look for answers to questions everybody already knows. What\u2019s the best way to solve this problem? Real innovators say, \u201cWhat question haven\u2019t we\u2014or our customers\u2014asked yet?\u201d Once they hit on the question, they solve it. So, to qualify as innovation, it\u2019s important to focus on the real question (or questions) at hand, especially those not yet raised, and not sift through a stack of current solutions.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8257&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]\u201cThe uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.\u201d \u2015 Antony Jay, writer, broadcaster and director One of the hardest parts of innovation is figuring out where you need to innovate, and the areas that need it the most. 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