Making innovation happen – moving beyond a conceptual framework

This paper aims to help people in organizations understand why so much of the talk and effort focused on innovation fails to generate real results.

The paper describes the origins of the Synectics® approach to creative problem solving based upon observation of successful innovators. This approach resulted in a tool kit that has applicability for anyone in organizational life struggling to get new ideas and to take these to action.

The paper has reference to a number of organizations and the results realised.

The originality is the reference to a holistic view of creative problem solving connected with a behavioural approach to make it happen. The value to any organization is beyond measure. At a simplistic level the time in meetings can be halved while simultaneously doubling the output. That is a huge cost saving and release of human energy into more productive effort.