{"id":133,"date":"2021-01-19T04:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T04:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jal.mybluehost.me\/\/?p=133"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:32:42","slug":"innovation-go-beyond-the-buzzword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/innovation-go-beyond-the-buzzword\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation: Go Beyond The Buzzword"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"133\" class=\"elementor elementor-133\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1282272b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1282272b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1a618a5f\" data-id=\"1a618a5f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bf1894c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2bf1894c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">So your team is on a mission to innovate&#8230;just like almost everyone in business, technology, government, education, energy, healthcare, hospitality, food, entertainment, news media, manufacturing, construction, and nearly every industry in existence.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/insights\/2013\/11\/innovation-the-most-important-and-overused-word-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Michael O\u2019Bryan pointed out<\/span><\/a> in 2013, \u201cInnovation has become the new buzzword, but its overuse and generalization has caused more instances of eye rolling than actual innovation.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/02\/stop-calling-it-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Nadya Zhexembayeva took this even further and said<\/span><\/a>, \u201cInnovation is <em>the<\/em> buzzword. In fact, it has been the buzzword for so long, you could say we\u2019ve developed a cult around it.\u201d She also shared how this might be turning people off to it.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">While the word innovation is overused, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/blog\/innovate-on-purpose\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">innovation defined as<\/span><\/a> creating new or better ways of doing valued things is needed and is crucial to human progress.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you want to mitigate eye-rolling at the use of the word innovation and set your team up for success as innovators, move from overuse and generalization to specific meaning.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Different types of innovation require different strategies and execution. Take the time to get clear about and aligned around what innovation means for your team and your collective efforts so you can choose strategies and execution that make the most sense:<\/p><ul data-rte-list=\"default\"><li><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Why are you innovating?<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What\u2019s your pursuit of innovation for?<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Who are you seeking to create value for?<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What does success look like for your innovation efforts? How is the world different because of your innovation? How are those you seek to create value for different as a result of your innovation?<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Are you striving for incremental innovation, disruptive innovation, or both?&nbsp;<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What mindsets and skills are required for the journey? <\/p><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to mitigate eye-rolling at the use of the word innovation and set your team up for success as innovators, move from overuse and generalization to specific meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,11,14,8,3,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-collaboration","category-communication","category-design","category-facilitation","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-problem-solving","category-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Innovation-Going-Beyond-The-Buzzword.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}