Innovation and Prefrontal Cortex
I had an interesting conversation via email with Prof.B yesterday on improvisation and innovation yesterday. He claims that the issue is quite controversial amongst the innovation people.
His claim is that the total amount of innovation does not necessarily correlate with the speed. In other words, if improvisation is a technique that only provides 'speed' to coming up with new ideas, then, will it change the 'total innovation'?
My response to this would be, yes. The speed does matter here, especially in a world where information is so prevalent, and difficult to pick out what is good information (that is useful for creating innovation) and what is not. If information was rather limited, then the achievable level of innovation is quite fixed, so the chance of attaining 'total innovation' is quite high, as you can run through all the iteration of combination (association of ideas). Improvisation, I believe, will demonstrate its strength when the information is limitless/numerous/expanding, like in the world that we live in right now. Granted, if one lets the time to run infinitely, then you may be able to attain 'total innovation' but who has that time?
By using improvisation, you are using brain's supercomputer to to select the information that are viable in very short time. And if done in non-inhibitive way, it can create breakthroughs in very short time...just how IDEO conducts their brainstorming session.
I had an interesting conversation via email with Prof.B yesterday on improvisation and innovation yesterday. He claims that the issue is quite controversial amongst the innovation people.
His claim is that the total amount of innovation does not necessarily correlate with the speed. In other words, if improvisation is a technique that only provides 'speed' to coming up with new ideas, then, will it change the 'total innovation'?
My response to this would be, yes. The speed does matter here, especially in a world where information is so prevalent, and difficult to pick out what is good information (that is useful for creating innovation) and what is not. If information was rather limited, then the achievable level of innovation is quite fixed, so the chance of attaining 'total innovation' is quite high, as you can run through all the iteration of combination (association of ideas). Improvisation, I believe, will demonstrate its strength when the information is limitless/numerous/expanding, like in the world that we live in right now. Granted, if one lets the time to run infinitely, then you may be able to attain 'total innovation' but who has that time?
By using improvisation, you are using brain's supercomputer to to select the information that are viable in very short time. And if done in non-inhibitive way, it can create breakthroughs in very short time...just how IDEO conducts their brainstorming session.
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