Innovation Provocation

At least once a week I'll be posting ideas, questions or challenges to help you with your Innovation challenges. If you apply the Innovation Preovocation to a business or organisational challenge you're working on, it might help generate new ideas, new products or services, or new ways of working.

The best way to use these is to apply the Provocation directly to your issue - to think the way the Provocation tells you, use that to generate new streams of ideas, and then to 'come out' of the question, and apply these new ideas to your challenge.

Over time, the various Innovation Provocation will build into a set of tools you can use in brainstorms, idea generation sessions or team meetings - either by keeping a list of them yourself, or by referring back to the relevant pages on this blog.

Good luck, and have some fun applying them!

Here's the first Innovation Provocation:

What would your boss suggest if they were sitting in this meeting?

What different way would they have of looking at the problem? What suggestions might they have? What would they want you to concentrate on? What would they discard? What new approaches might they want you to take?

Try it in your next session - and keep an eye out for new ideas, new approaches, and new ways of thinking.