{"id":53,"date":"2006-02-11T02:54:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/02\/11\/remote-associations-and-innovation3\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:40:57","slug":"remote-associations-and-innovation3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/02\/11\/remote-associations-and-innovation3\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Associations and Innovation^3"},"content":{"rendered":"

My appologies for the the lame title–I just couldn’t come up with anything less bad.\u00a0 Regardless…<\/p>\n

Blogrium<\/a> has\u00a0an interesting post on the sociology of innovation<\/a>\u00a0and the psychological perception factors that are conducive\u00a0to fostering innovation within groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I was immediately struck by the fact that this is a model of product design as a professional and multi-disciplinary\u00a0practice.\u00a0 Indeed many designers claim that design is a problem solving endeavour (top-right).\u00a0 I contend that solving is only part of the equation; modeling and understanding the problem (bottom-left) is the other half.<\/p>\n

Furthermore most design practice seems to be trapped in derivative stylization (bottom-right).\u00a0 Need proof?\u00a0 Pick up any design magazine.\u00a0 Chances are\u00a0regardless of which one or which time or year,\u00a0it will\u00a0feature the winners of some kind of mind-numbingly sterile design competition.\u00a0 In it\u00a0you will find\u00a0that what passes for award winning design is really little more than a predictable and conservative fashion show of usual suspects.<\/p>\n

And finally design at its best,\u00a0mixes with other disciplines like engineering marketing to give birth to real innovation (top-left).\u00a0 This means that design is not itself innovaton (and one shouldn’t conflate the two) but strongly related to innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So these four quadrants seem to cover the reality of product design and development\u00a0quite nicely.\u00a0 However, I was still unsatisfied.\u00a0 Something was missing.\u00a0 And toward the end of the post there it was: constraints.\u00a0 The 2-D\u00a0model does\u00a0not include one’s\u00a0ability to navigate constraints.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By constraint navigation I’m refering to\u00a0execution intelligence: the ability to successfully act on what has been percieved.\u00a0 Sure you can see differences and similarities, but can you take that vision to market (financial market, product market, idea market, what ever)?\u00a0 No market, no innovation.<\/p>\n

So I included a third dimension and tweaked\u00a0some of the terms (in my cumudgeonly way)\u00a0to come up the following cube: Innovation^3.<\/p>\n

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\"Innovation<\/p>\n

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My appologies for the the lame title–I just couldn’t come up with anything less bad.\u00a0 Regardless… Blogrium has\u00a0an interesting post on the sociology of innovation\u00a0and the psychological perception factors that are conducive\u00a0to fostering innovation within groups.\u00a0 I was immediately struck by the fact that this is a model of product design as a professional and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}