Monday, April 30, 2012

Provocative Problem-Solving in a Global Context

To be successful and remain a competitor you must create and maintain a competitive edge.  The competitive edge comes from innovation which is more easily achieved by blowing out of the comfort zone.  It is difficult to get to this area because your mind refuses to think in an area that is beyond the zone of incompetence. 

A trick to break the comfort zone, when innovating, is to develop an impossible goal and do a short “brain storm” of ideas.  This method of impossible goals in a short time allows your mind to think effectively without realizing that it has left the comfort zone.  With a set of new and possibly outrageous ideas established, you can look at the aspects of each of them and back out the concepts that would feasibly make the impossible a reality. 

Create the outrageous, embrace the outrageous, and then create the possible.

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