Comments on: Innovation Mindset, Not Innovation Tools http://www.steveshapiro.com/2007/12/31/innovation-mindset-not-innovation-tools/ Steve shares his unconventional approach on Business Innovation, Creativity, Goals and Critical Thinking Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:12:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Stephen Shapiro http://www.steveshapiro.com/2007/12/31/innovation-mindset-not-innovation-tools/#comment-34098 Stephen Shapiro Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:37:22 +0000 http://www.steveshapiro.com/2007/12/31/innovation-mindset-not-innovation-tools/#comment-34098 Pawel, you are so right. Fortunately, we can change the way people think, so all hope is not lost. Pawel, you are so right. Fortunately, we can change the way people think, so all hope is not lost.

]]> By: Pawel Brodzinski http://www.steveshapiro.com/2007/12/31/innovation-mindset-not-innovation-tools/#comment-34095 Pawel Brodzinski Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:53:23 +0000 http://www.steveshapiro.com/2007/12/31/innovation-mindset-not-innovation-tools/#comment-34095 When you are small to medium organization you don't really need tools at all. You need the atmosphere which promotes for being creative. You need people over all stages of management who spread the atmosphere through all organizational structure. The great exercise is to try to imagine how would creativity look like in the organization if there were no tools to support it. If it would suck it does mean the problem doesn't lay within tools but in people's mindset. In those situations, no matter which tools you have, creativity of the organiazation sucks anyway. When you are small to medium organization you don’t really need tools at all. You need the atmosphere which promotes for being creative. You need people over all stages of management who spread the atmosphere through all organizational structure.

The great exercise is to try to imagine how would creativity look like in the organization if there were no tools to support it. If it would suck it does mean the problem doesn’t lay within tools but in people’s mindset. In those situations, no matter which tools you have, creativity of the organiazation sucks anyway.

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