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Each Innovation Style is a fundamentally different approach for driving the entire
process of innovation and change: taking on a challenge, reaching breakthroughs,
implementing them and making a real contribution through your work. This is a much
broader concept than the creative thinking styles that teach "left-brain"
and "right-brain" ways of thinking.
Even though you may have a preference for one Innovation Style, you have the seeds
for all four styles as part of your makeup. Each Innovation Style is like a language,
and while you may most easily express yourself in one or two, you can learn to use
all four.
Your own score for the profile reflects your preference for generating ideas, bringing
about innovation, and managing change in your life in the absence of a predefined
structure. The profile measures how you like to be innovative rather than
how innovative you are.
Knowing the Styles helps you to...
- Generate a more comprehensive
as well as creative set of ideas;
- Depersonalize interpersonal conflict and build more synergistic work
teams with diverse people;
- Present your creative ideas and innovations more effectively;
- Lead better creativity sessions;
- Implement changes more effectively;
Regarding Intuition and Analysis
People who use the Modifying and Experimenting Styles most prefer to gather facts
first then use their intuition to make sense out of the data. People who prefer
the Visioning and Exploring Styles tend to use their intuition to develop hypotheses
first and then gather facts to support those insights.
Background
This assessment tool was originally developed by William
C. Miller. Miller was a senior consultant at SRI International, has taught
at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and is the author of two
important books in the field of innovation,
The Creative Edge: Fostering Innovation Where You Work (1987) and
Flash of Brilliance: Inspiring Creativity Where You Work (1999).
A full validation study of the Innovation Styles is available upon request.
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