All the great ideas and inventions in the world come from the human brain. Just as the brain has an incredible ability to store information, it also has a new ability: the ability to innovate.
A history of the development of science and technology tells us a truth with countless facts: only by innovation can human beings develop and history advance.
innovation refers to a series of activities from the generation of new ideas to product design, trial production, production, marketing and marketization, and it is also a process of knowledge creation, transformation and application. Its essence is the emergence and commercial application of new technology, which includes both technological innovation and non-technological innovation such as mechanism innovation, management innovation and organization innovation. From the perspective of knowledge economy, discovery and invention is a kind of knowledge production activity, and innovation is manifested in the application of knowledge.
In the summer of p>1993, at the seminar of the World Creative Society, Japanese expert Yukio Murakami said, Please use your brains and tell us the various uses of paper clips, and let's see who talks a lot and is strange! Participants said about 2 kinds. An expert handed a note saying that there were 3, species. Others don't believe it. The next day, the expert wrote "Solving the Use of Paper Clips" and summarized it in four words: hook, hang, don't, and connect. He broke through the pattern of thinking and creatively talked about 3 thousand uses of paper clips. He decomposed the overall information of paper clips into ten elements: material quality, weight, volume, length, cross section, color, elasticity, hardness, straight edge and radian, and then connected these elements with straight lines as the information mark-X axis, and then decomposed the relevant human practice activities into the information mark Y axis. The two intersect vertically to form an information reaction field. The information on each point of each axis intersects with the information on each point of the other axis in turn, resulting in several uses. The Y-axis "electric" mark intersects with the X-axis "straight edge" or "radian", which can bend wires or coils and so on. "Paper clips have 3, uses". This innovative thinking and creative skills are amazing.
similarly, we know that the Internet appeared in the 197s and was widely known in the 198s, but why did it suddenly shine and develop rapidly in the 199s? Here, in addition to the accumulation of network technology for many years and the gradual maturity of technology, the emergence and detonation of WWW technology played a very key role. In fact, in principle, WWW technology is not a new invention, nor is it complicated, but through clever combination and integration-that is, an innovation, it has triggered a revolution. This change not only brings technological changes, but also causes progress in information society and information industry.
All societies and times require people to exert their creativity, and companies, firms and factories are all favorable environments for creativity. Use management science and behavioral science to improve creative policies and effective conditions.
The first step to cultivate innovative ability is "I can do those things". No matter what problems I face, I must first confirm the positive thoughts that I have enough ability to do.
The ideas of Socrates, Aristotle and Plato helped Athens enter the first democracy in the world, even though it was a very limited democracy.
Newton's outstanding new discoveries and the arrival of the golden age of British science in the 17th century paved the way for the industrial revolution in England.
Henry Ford's unique and novel mass production principle promoted the great breakthrough of American economy in the 2th century.
Rutherford's talent ushered in the atomic age.
in 193s, Keynes's theory provided the economic theory needed by the government, and then changed the society.
Thomas Edison holds 193 patents and makes electricity spread all over the world.
When ray kroc visited Dick and Morais McDonald's hamburger bar in California for the first time, he was only a middle-aged milk mixer seller. He adopted their basic idea and combined it with other things, but the result was the largest fast food chain network in the world.
The psychology of "I believe I can accomplish it" is the beginning of exploring, creating and solving the journey. If you are convinced that you can't finish it, you will form a destructive idea, so no matter how big or small it is, there will be no success.
Innovation needs both divergent thinking to open up the road and convergent thinking to grasp the direction; Both intuition of image thinking and reasoning of logical thinking are needed. What it needs is not the expertise of a single hemisphere, but the complementarity and cooperation between the left and right hemispheres. The innovative practice of a large number of creators in the history of science, art, military and creation shows that only by maintaining a good tension between the two kinds of thinking can we achieve greater innovative results.
innovation ability is the highest essential strength of human beings. Only innovation can lead to increasingly developed science and technology; Only by innovation can there be perfect material and spiritual products. Opportunities are fleeting, and if you want to succeed, you must have the highest innovative ability.
Method innovation can break through the original framework and is an important aspect of mechanism innovation, which needs to be creatively combined with innovation theory and practice.
in practice, when you find yourself in trouble, you should find another way, let your thoughts diverge, analyze and think about the problem from multiple directions and angles, and find out the solution. The NM creation method proposed by Masakazu Nakayama, a Japanese creative engineering scholar, is based on this idea. For example, according to this method, when inventing a new washing machine, the inventor first puts forward all possible washing methods and tools around "washing" with divergent thinking. Then it is found that accelerating the speed of water flow is the key. Then, make a choice among various methods that may speed up the water flow. This divergent thinking method is often predestined with inspiration. When it enters a new field, it is often accompanied by inspiration.