Removing a Step in the Process –Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash Skill #15: Eliminate Resources to Deliver a Better Result Managing any process as a series of dependent steps or events is the key to this skill. As the contribution of each process step is dependent upon the contribution of the previous step, the greater the number of…

Skill #14: Vary a Resource to Do Something Different From What It Normally Does The third skill for releasing innovative value from an Initiating Resource varies an attribute of the resource so that it easily replaces what was there previously. …

Skill #13: Multiply a Resource to Do Something In Addition to What It Normally Does The second skill for ‘tapping’ the unrealized value latent in an Initiating Resource involves focusing on an intrinsic attribute of the selected resource and seeking to multiply it so that it does not only what is normal, but does something else as well All intentional innovative behavior commences with the…

Skill #12: Extend a Resource to Do More Than It Normally Does All innovative behavior commences with the selection of an Initiating Resource. This is then ‘tapped’ for its unconsumed value utilizing one or more of seven skills. …

Skill #11: Copy by Observing Best Practice While improving through experience and trial and error is certainly valuable, eventually the rate of improvement plateaus and progress becomes incremental or even stalls altogether. However, it is still possible to achieve breakthrough advances by isolating a critical activity and then finding someone who engages in that activity at a…

Skill #10: Copy by Observing Yourself The uncertainty typically attached to coming up with a good idea can be reduced by holding in your mind a picture of the broad solution that is required to deal with the problem you are facing. …

Skill #9: Copy by Observing Things The metaphor of climbing up one side of a mountain and down the other is a useful one for demonstrating the innovative technique of Copying by Observing Things. I have used it in previous ‘Copying’ posts and again in the image above to illustrate…

Skill #8: Copy by Observing People Simply observing what others are engaged in can help us innovate to remove an obstacle that has been preventing us from achieving a goal. Understanding more generally what people are doing in a particular situation opens up other specific applications for the overarching behavior…

Skill #7: Copy by Observation or Create Through Generation While a difficult problem is daunting when it first reveals itself, a valuable starting point is to know that there are two reliable options for tackling it. One is to copy a solution that successfully solved a similar problem and the…