8 Rules for Nanovation

Innovate or Perish

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1. Get Wired for Innovation!

Everyone has the potential to innovate. However, Nanovators are wired different. Who are they? How do they think? What makes them tick? What do they bring to the game that makes nanovation possible? The Freibergs will show you how to hire, inspire and equip people to think big, act bold, and Nanovate.

2. Question the unquestionable.

Question it! Step out of the prevailing paradigm. Think like an outsider. Challenge your taken-for-granted assumptions—about the way the world works, about your customer’s expectations, and what your employees are truly capable of doing.

3. Look for the intersection of trends to find opportunities.

You can’t win with yesterday’s ideas, so what are the big, converging trends that are headed your way? You’ll find white space where rising trends intersect. In that white space is a huge opportunity for innovation.

4. Jettison the incumbent mentality.

Incumbents are vulnerable to the often-fatal trap of thinking the future will be more of the same only better—more choices, better features, and better design—all incremental improvements on yesterday’s headline. Nanovators don’t think “best practice” they are think “next practice.” Nanovators see the future as a whole new game and leap-frog “best” with entirely new rules.

5. Look beyond customer imagination for next big thing.

Customers are smart and never to be underestimated. But customers don’t always know what they want and if they do know, they can’t always tell you. Nanovators start a lot of conversations with “What if?” and respond to a lot of push back with “Why not?” and “Why not now?”

6. Let limitations drive creativity vs. complacency.

Nanovators see limitations as invitations to innovation and opportunities to differentiate vs. constraints and excuses for why it can’t be done! Limited resources forced the design team to be extremely creative in every aspect of the Nano’s design.

7. Look for breakthroughs beyond your industry.

Some of the best ideas for game-changing innovation will come from outside your industry. The question is: Do you have the guts to look beyond what’s comfortable and familiar? Do you have the wisdom to avoid the “not invented here” syndrome?

8. Dare to Try! Risk more to gain more.

The fact is, you can’t innovate without experimenting and you can’t experiment without making some mistakes. Companies like Tata Motors and Southwest Airlines have created cultures where it is safe for people to try new things and test new ideas.

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Dear Sir

It's true.

But unless we keep the spirit of discipline embedded imagination; there is no chance of innovation.

Sage Ashtavakra has remarked in his samhita that a rule shall have to be broken by superior rule.

This sort of breaking rule is creativity and it suffers no sin.

He cites as an example, law of ignition has to be used to break the rule of fire burns.

Sloka's Meaning:

"If we show our hands to fire it burns, but if we soak our hands in water and then show it to fire, it does not burn so fast.

As the law of fire is broken by the law of ignition, so every law has to be broken by a superior law.

Such breaking of law is not an offense, but is a display of creativity. Such application of mind destroys all Karma."

If we apply this rule along with this western concept of innovation, we are bound to get success.

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan, 

ACA, ACS, ADMA-Lon, DISA, PGDFE
Mobile: 91-9444689595 & 9840571348

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From: Venkataraman Sivakumar <vsivakumar988@gmail.com>
To: V NARAYANAN <nrd80v@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: 8 Rules for Nanovation

Dear Mr. Narayanan,

Today is visible. Tomorrow will be visible when you see the light at
the end of the tunnel. Unless you come to the brink, you won't know
you are innovating something.

So, innovating is unscheduled, boundless and accidental and open ended
that is of either certainty or no certainty. Every figament of
imagination is not innovation. Innotation should be universal that is
acceptable to the universe.

Regards,
Sivakumar