Wednesday, November 10, 2010

"It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may be worked out by a team, but true innovation results from the enterpris

It is said innovation distinguishes between the leader and the follower. Innovation is creating something on basis of existing things for the betterment of society, country or organization. In terms of business, innovation is often interpreted as conversion of ideas into cash and always favorable to humanity. In essence, innovation is invention plus exploitation. According to me innovative ideas can only stem from creative mind and implementation of them may or may not require team work. In other words, innovation is successful implementation of creative ideas for the good cause. We can see huge verity of innovations around us, which brought in comfortable and made our lives easy. All these invention might be the result of team efforts or individual efforts, but the ultimate goal of them have always been human satisfaction and comfort of humankind. Although innovation can be implemented by teamwork or an individual, the birth of that very idea of innovation is the enterprise and unique perception of an individual. The mind who generates the creative idea of innovation always works as a propelling (motivating/prompting) force to implement the idea. Let us plunge into some examples.


An ancient time there was no mean of transportation. People used animals to carry the cumbersome material from one place to another, but the invention of wheel facilitate the process of transportation. It proved very beneficial for humankind as it saved lots of time and manpower.Years went by and creative minds came up with the idea of bikes, motor bicycle ,cars ,trucks and many more vehicles which brought revolution in the history. All these creations are the innovative ideas, which took place in some of the ingenious minds and afterwards got implemented. The successful implementation of these innovative ideas might be team efforts or individual efforts,but their origin is a unique mind. Although the ancient people had awareness about the uses of wheels, they did not know how many different way they could have used it? if no one would have looked at the wheel from different perspective, we still might be living in the ancient time. According to me looking at existing things from different perspective results in innovation, which has always provided enormous contribution in our diurnal life.



Furthermore,innovation has always helped to make our life easygoing and encourages others to brainstorm. All the inventions and innovation are the result of hard work, consistent efforts and limitless passion for the betterment of society, nation or country. Here i would like to illustrate one more example. In Antediluvian times messages were sent through messengers. The messenger used to take long time to reach at the destination. Moreover, there were no mean to stay or eat out during the travelling. It made communication very difficult. Over the period of time when telephone got invented ,it brought the whole world closer. now communication could be done by just dialing few numbers. Although it saved the cost of travelling and manpower, it was not possible for every person to have it. Furthermore, the need of cheaper communicating device became a must and emails, social networking started. Some software applications allow users to make video voice calls over the Internet. The above two examples depicts the development, progress and advancement of the nations and humankind, which is being feasible because of the creative minds and their innovations. These innovative idea came into great minds and then might be got implemented by groups or teams. According to me there is only one mind behind every innovation and its persistence, want of people's welfare and foresight of looking the nation at the pinnacle of achievements are the motivational forces to get the innovation done.


At the end, I will conclude by saying true innovation has always been resulted from enterprise and unique perception of an individual. To achieve this purpose the individual can take help of group or team, but the individual who prompts the group or team to accomplish the innovation, gets the recognition. All the success of the innovation attributed to the mind and its insightful thinking behind it.









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