Annelie Näs

A few days ago I wrote a post about brainstorming lunches, a few loved the concept others felt that I needed to highlight that ideas are noting without implementation. I think that might be a stretch to far, so I want to share something I heard today, Innovations = idea + implementations. Thus, innovations are nothing without implementations, but ideas are. In another post I think I will dive down in all the benefits that I can find with ideas, except for the ideas themselves, but now I thought I would discuss idea development.

With idea development I’m not talking about developing or generating ideas, but to simply develop and expand the fragments of ideas. I think that this is an area which we do not spend much time on. We talk about ideas and implementation and what that leads to. But what happen in between?

Few ideas are actually implemented. But why?
Most of the focus here seems to be that most people like to come up with ideas but few have the energy or time to take them from idea. Other says that the idea was not good enough, but that might not be true.

Let’s say we have 10 ideas, which we sit down and develop. Some might during the development process become bigger and better others get’s stuck in the folders such as “not the right time,” “not possible” or “not a good reason.”

Of the ten original ideas, we might only choose to develop 1. The other 9 we did not leave because there was not energy or time but for other reasons. But when we speak about being creative we rarely talk about these ideas, the ideas that got stuck in the development phase.
What would happen if we would give the ideas to another group? Would they all of a sudden be better?

What if we saved them for later? Would statements such as “we talked about that before…….” followed by an indication to drop it, disappear?

If we developed a culture in companies and societies were dropped ideas were transferred or rediscovered, would be lower the cost of innovation?

A few days ago I wrote a post about brainstorming lunches, a few loved the concept others felt that I needed to highlight that ideas are noting without implementation. I think that might be a stretch to far, so I want to share something I heard today, Innovations = idea + implementations. Thus, innovations are nothing without implementations, but ideas are. In another post I think I will dive down in all the benefits that I can find with ideas, except for the ideas themselves, but now I thought I would discuss idea development.

With idea development I’m not talking about developing or generating ideas, but to simply develop and expand the fragments of ideas. I think that this is an area which we do not spend much time on. We talk about ideas and implementation and what that leads to. But what happen in between?

Few ideas are actually implemented. But why?
Most of the focus here seems to be that most people like to come up with ideas but few have the energy or time to take them from idea. Other says that the idea was not good enough, but that might not be true.

Let’s say we have 10 ideas, which we sit down and develop. Some might during the development process become bigger and better others get’s stuck in the folders such as “not the right time,” “not possible” or “not a good reason.”

Of the ten original ideas, we might only choose to develop 1. The other 9 we did not leave because there was not energy or time but for other reasons. But when we speak about being creative we rarely talk about these ideas, the ideas that got stuck in the development phase.
What would happen if we would give the ideas to another group? Would they all of a sudden be better?

What if we saved them for later? Would statements such as “we talked about that before…….” followed by an indication to drop it, disappear?

If we developed a culture in companies and societies were dropped ideas were transferred or rediscovered, would be lower the cost of innovation?