When the absence for consensus becomes the limiting factor to hurdling
innovation roadblocks, what other mechanisms ease collaborative
cognition ? Here's several for innovation plasticity.
In the
race for interconnected innovation instances that continually lead to
further convergence ( as divergences are a daily occurrence and also
part of the design, engineering and innovation process ) we see that so
to enable alternative mechanisms for lab based breakthroughs and to make
it past the gauntlet of ( within large organization processes ) well
honed, ' hold on, explain how that will work with / within my group '
situations, the key to success often resides in not only collaborative
underpinnings but also the unblocking of known or subconsciously
accepted risks. This is often separate and unrelated to enumerating the
steps and changes necessary to make a specific modules work, solving
technically ( and temporarily ) " impossible " situations and dealing
with lab bench challenges. It is the steps in-between lab bench science
and manufacturable usability that these challenges ultimately rear their
ugly head.
Where we see this particularly well articulated is how Systemic Innovation Designers Through Informal and Collaborative Activities
drive formal and specific processes which allows for the quantization
of ever changing user attitudes often reflected as ' needs ' in certain
circumstances: sometimes early on in the design processes. This is
embodied in the further process of transversal competencies mediated by
digital tools: telepresence, simultaneous collaboration, and synchronous
and asynchronous communication which ultimately ( if done properly )
lead of convergences through a systematic peristalsis. When pushed or more aptly in today's language, " enabled " through effort.
This has been echoed for more than 20 years ( ten proceeding the original publication and then after ) where in Facilitating Innovation Through Cognitive Mapping of Uncertainty
we see the systematic need for specific Skunkworks frameworks that can
encompass the incredible level of uncertainty in early stages of
defining breakthrough efforts ( from lab bench science ) through the
engineering process. This mixing and cognitive separation, refinement,
leads to the formation of what to do, what not to do weavings allowing
the underpinning of what some have referred to as likeness lillypads -
allowing the further connection between what has worked, may work,
cannot work, and will not work environments. Moreover we see how an
originally seemingly impermeable footpath to alternative future scenario
directions can and often does allow for existing and transitionary
system to take hold to forge those paths, and which some refer to as
innovation plasticity.
With
the notion of breaking barriers ( both conscious and unconscious ) in
not only end users but to those involved in the delivery of specific
components / end user products as the key factor to fostering the
highest levels of convergence capabilities inside and post lab bench
science validation, it seems there are many keys needed to increase the
unblocking of uncertainty and which means an adherence to the need to
foster ( at every level of the innovation effort ) a constant and clear
mode of collaboration as well as a willingness to bend the rules - yet
another type of innovation definition.
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