Idea Crafting - A systematic framework for robust Ideation

What is an IDEA? What is the model of an Idea?

What is an Idea? It is a thought.
Is every Thought an Idea? No!
~ what is the structure of an idea! and how do we pick it from our mind!!

Ideas need to be expressed so that they move ahead (live), else they go off or remain dormant. While expressing, the mind needs to give a structure or form to the idea ~ whenever we get into structure we get into the realm of information. Information is needed for structure.

About structure of thoughts - even if they are structureless - thoughts continue ~ many times the very act to giving structure to thought destroys the thought - sort of uncertainty principle (quantum mechanics).

Thought can be structureless and can be structured - similarly since ideas are thoughts they can be structureless or can be structured. The act of giving structure leads to expression of ideas and extension of idea-life!

I offer imperfection, dreams, unexplored domains, uncharted waters, & much non-sense - because in making sense is our only chance to create

How to be an Idea Flirt?

I think one needs to become an Idea Flirt as quickly as one can be

An Idea Flirt is one who engages with ideas for some time - and then with next ideas -

And more importantly flirt with as many ideas as you can same time.

From flirting with many ideas - some ideas will develop into longer relationships - may be a long term relationship.

With some one may get into a marriage - the trick for being a successful Idea Flirt - is to be keep on flirting with new ideas - even if you are in many long term relationships and every married to some of them.

This requires a continuous exploration of the field :) to search and open to have tea/coffees and even one night stands with some of the ideas! While you continue to be in stable marriages and long term relationships with many of the stable ideas!

One important point is to know - how and when to get out of a relationship and even marriage with ideas!

Further - never divorce your ideas - even if your relationship is dead!

Building a Learning Organization – Is that an Oxymoron?

The natural structure we socialize through is a network. This has become evident with the research on social networks as exemplified by the discovery of small world phenomenon. Yet, the way our enterprises have been designed are predominantly hierarchical. Further, knowledge and information work has taken a central position in various businesses. The new world is being re-engineered at such a frantic pace that the organizations are failing to learn, adapt and leverage their expertise. There are unresolved challenges in increasing the learning capability and generation of new ideas in large organizations. These challenges as reflected in the inherent complexity of technology adoption and development, people dependencies and aspirations, infant processes, nebulous understanding of information worker productivity, increasing disconnect between customer needs versus customer wants, globally distributed work and rapid technology churn, combine to produce radically different needs for an organization.

We propose that the organization design should cater for organizational innovation in creating multiple routes to idea fructification. The organization structure should be naturally evolved or designed for continuous learning as a route to innovation. This should include retaining implicit and explicit knowledge, reducing idea to fructification time, enabling experimentation as a route to innovation, tinkering and retaining tinkering knowledge, and enable personal growth, training and career aspirations of employees. In this regard we need to combine inputs from social network analysis, word of mouth marketing, and network science to define and describe a framework for building a learning organization to take care of challenges of the new complexities.

What is an Idea?

My post to the Yahoo group on Ideas!

Hi All,

What is an Idea? I presume all of us have assumed that we know the answer. Believe me, we dont. Please try to answer this, "what is an idea?"

Here are what we have realized and since ideas are not cheap or easily available as mentioned by some of the posts before, we have designed IDEA CRAFTING Workshops. Believe me , idea crafting is very HARD. People have given us the feedback that we havent thought so much in a single day ever as we have done in these workshops.The reason why ideas dont come easy to us - is very simply - our minds are not designed to think! Thinking is a process - and biggest most baffling reason for not able to ideate or think is our increased expertise or what I call Psychological inertia of core competence.

IDEAS are those thoughts that bring in the genesis of change – many times fundamental. These are thoughts that one doesn’t get in regular run-of-the-mill thinking.

IDEAS can happen serendipitously in human mind. They can happen at any time. They can be fleeting glimpses of problem solutions, can be dreams of possible new opportunities, can be new design structures or simply new experiences.

IDEAS doesn’t happen just like that. They come to prepared minds. Only prepared minds can transform these thoughts into change. It requires an ability to generate and execute at the same time.

IDEAS need to be crafted through orchestrated immersion. Contrary to popular belief of organization having lots of ideas and it is all about execution, our experiences show ideas need to be crafted through orchestrated immersion of minds that work inside and with the enterprises.

Idea Crafting - Crafitti Workshops

We have started offering IDEA CRAFTING Framework for large global organizations from Crafitti.

IDEAS are those thoughts that bring in the genesis of change – many times fundamental. These are thoughts that one doesn’t get in regular run-of-the-mill thinking.
IDEAS can happen serendipitously in human mind. They can happen at any time. They can be fleeting glimpses of problem solutions, can be dreams of possible new opportunities, can be new design structures or simply new experiences.
IDEAS doesn’t happen just like that. They come to prepared minds. Only prepared minds can transform these thoughts into change. It requires an ability to generate and execute at the same time.

IDEAS need to be crafted through orchestrated immersion. Contrary to popular belief of organization having lots of ideas and it is all about execution, our experiences show ideas need to be crafted through orchestrated immersion of minds that work inside and with the enterprises.

Idea Crafting framework help us work with large enterprises in generating ideas that become the genesis of change for the enterprises