Innovation

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Comment by Jan Beeton on December 9, 2009 at 12:12pm

Interesting discussion- keep it up guys! Innovation is also about 3 dimensional thinking moving into 4th and 5th of course- so often we think in 2 dimensions only- this limits us.

Comment by Gavin Tonks on December 9, 2009 at 10:00am

I used to train unemployed people off the street [literally] and then encouraged the trainees to do drawings first in black and white then in colour and from this zI have developed a thing I call squares. I made them draw complicated still lives and noted that their was a pattern developing from similar personality types and the outward look of each drawing from perception depth and use of colour.

The Tibetans believe we think in thought forms and of course not words which are also images
I found a direct link between intellect and spatial understanding through education which did not mean school education either
The square makes people think and translate the image to paper and reveals a plan of their objective thinking

I realized that education allows people to understand abstract thought and form and this education does not need to be formal

Comment by Dumisani Mphalala on December 9, 2009 at 9:23am

I can train you on Six thinking Hats of Edward De Bono which is a good method to create innovators.

Comment by Dumisani Mphalala on December 9, 2009 at 9:21am

I work for an organisation that is promoting innovation in the public sector and am full of ideas as to how can we make public or private sector organisations and individuals to be innovative.

Comment by Gavin Tonks on October 29, 2009 at 2:45pm

Hi as a proponent in the design and artistic field I can truthfully say all creativity is inspiration and adaption.
Our inspiration is based on developing from a base or having a flash of insight that sets us on a path.
Eureka came out of a bath tub and the concept of an idea as a light going off in our heads [What will people say when their are no more incandescent bulbs to go off in our heads] and the youth have an led strip of white light.

Comment by Thomas Hartig on September 9, 2009 at 12:48pm

Hi Anthony. The idea of play and creativity has gotten more press since Jung, and currently several neuro-scientists are busy researching the effects of play on overall creative output, ability to cope with challenging situations, etc.

I still think one of the best strategies for innovation was started by Walt Disney and has been adapted for many different contexts ever since, from innovation tunnels or funnels or whatever nomenclature they were given.

Mulling over a problem? How about you pick up three balls and start juggling!

Comment by Anthony Kreiner on June 17, 2009 at 5:48pm

Here's a valuable quote that goes to the heart of the challenge. "Every good idea and all creative work are the offspring of the imagination, and have their source in what one is pleased to call infantile fantasy. Not the artist alone but every creative individual whatsoever owes all that is greatest in his life to fantasy." "The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable." (Jung 1921, par. 93)

Comment by GEORGE VREY on June 13, 2009 at 8:31pm

hi Anthony i have been interested in brain profiles for the past ten years evaluating people on what quadrants they are using the most and it is great to test people and then notice how they are suprised when you tel them there likes and dislikes i am also a 94%right brain operator and that is why i like this group as well because this is where new ideas will be born

Comment by Anthony Kreiner on June 12, 2009 at 11:13pm

Hi guys. This is by far the most interesting group, and I hope I can support it. Innovation is for me a creative output and developing a right-brain language of symbols is what I spend my hours on. I work off a cognitive science platform, using NBI brain profiles, with a Jungian bias, to try change perceptions of the right-brain as the inferior hemisphere. It appears to me that mystery languages such as mentalese and what is operating in the right hemisphere suffer from a legacy of repression over the centuries, making the study of this language and the unconscious a no-go area for millions of people. I believe in striving to crack this code, to expose the syntax, to develop whole-brain thinking that in turn can help us tap into higher mental faculties. I support innovation that tries to define another lifestyle that rejects the left-brain consumerist idealogy that will still be the death of us. I support innovation that acknowledges the warnings of Jacques Ellul concerning Technique, and the green movement. I am developing the capacity to offer online services, which can be viewed at www.smartmove.co.za

Here's hoping to share some interesting stuff.
Regards,
A

Comment by Chris van Zyl on May 18, 2009 at 6:54pm

Thanks Jan for your response - I'll follow-up! Regards Chris

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