Why we innovate
We innovate in order to make better progress; either for ourselves or to get help making progress we seek through service exchange Editing below here What we’re thinking There are many commonly cited reasons for why we innovate. Most revolve around creating value or generating cash. The progress economy reframes that question. We innovate to
The real goal of innovation – improving well-being
To minimise the limitations chasing value brings we need to offer to improve well-being, that is to say “how do we enable better progress?” Editing below here What we’re thinking We’ve identified solving our innovation problem requires a mind shift from chasing added value to improving well-being by enabling better progress. But what does that
Accelerating well-being recognition
Can you reduce one or more of the six progress hurdles to enable Seekers to make more progress? What we’re thinking One of the four innovation outcomes is a proposition that reduces one or more of the six progress hurdles. Is your innovation reducing the lack of capabilities or is more adoptable with less resistance?
Lowering progress hurdles
Can you reduce one or more of the six progress hurdles to enable Seekers to make more progress? What we’re thinking One of the four innovation outcomes is a proposition that reduces one or more of the six progress hurdles. Is your innovation reducing the lack of capabilities or is more adoptable with less resistance?
Improving today’s progress
Can you better enable Seekers to make the progress they can today in a better way? What we’re thinking One of the four innovation outcomes is a proposition that offers to help reach today’s progress in an improved way. This is actually a conceit. A useful cognitive shortcut relating to increasing non-functional potential progress, or
Increasing progress potential
Can you innovate to enable Seekers get closer to their progress sought than they can today? What we’re thinking One of the four innovation outcomes is a proposition that offers increased progress potential. That is to say, a proposition that enables a Seeker to get closer to their progress sought. And that might mean starting
Innovation and sales: two sides of the same coin
Sales and innovation both aim to enable the making of better progress. Innovation is often off-line, sales more in-line. The former helps sales, and the later may result in local innovation. Both leverage the same progress levers.
Transforming innovation: the operational definition
The real question for innovators is not “how do we add value?” but “how do we enable better progress?”. Enable what seekers truly want: improved well-being – by enabling better progress (functional, non-functional, contextual) with lower progress hurdles and quicker well-being recognition. What we’re thinking We’ve uncovered that chasing value is the root of our innovation problem and
Operationalising Innovation: Progress Levers
Progress levers focus creativity, turning innovation (and sales) from a gamble into repeatable creative success. Which levers are you pulling? What we’re thinking One of the most powerful benefits of the progress economy is the clarity it brings to innovation. It reveals a definition that is concrete, operational, and actionable, and which identifies four specific
Sliding along the progress continuum
Close the gap between proposition and Seekers, or explore implications of new positions, on the enabling-relieving progress continuum
