Innovation isn’t always easy to discover. Here are two different approaches: make it harder, or play more.
This article suggests that making an activity harder will lead to innovation (because you have to be more deliberate in its execution). And this one suggests that play leads to innovation.
I know I’d rather play, but what would you prefer?
And here are ten roles you can play (or make harder!) to foster innovation and new ideas
- The Anthropologist
- The Experimenter
- The Cross-Pollinator
- The Hurdler
- The Collaborator
- The Director
- The Experience Architect
- The Set Designer
- The Caregiver
- The Storyteller
More detail at IDEO
