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The Jazz of Innovation

Improvisation within a guiding structure

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Vadim Kotelnikov, global innovator founder, innovation speaker

Innovation is about Love – love what you do and love your customers.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

  

The driving force of innovation is love.
By its nature innovation is a science-flavored art.
The process of innovation, ideally, is jazz − improvisation within a guiding structure,
in reality, it is a football game.

  

 
 

To jazz up your ability to innovate artfully, effectively, and joyfully, turn to jazz.

Challenge the status quo and encourage creative out-of-the-box thinking and improvisation mixed with pragmatic business judgment.

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Vadim Kotelnikov (VadiK) innovator venturepreneur trainer speaker

Managers succeed by following rules.
Innovators succeed by breaking rules.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

  

If you create something unseen before, prepare to address challenges unmet earlier.

The most important is to find the most important difference that makes the difference.

  

 
 

There is a clear structure to good jazz, so create a clear guiding structure. Then establish a creative chaos environment within this structure to liberate people, encourage improvisation, and trigger accidental discoveries.

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The accidental discovery is triggered by chaos, experimentation and contradictions, rather than by order and logic.

  

Making Discoveries

SARS Synergy

  

 
 

"Great music is born from the clash of chaos and order."

~ Niccolò Paganini

"Without order nothing can exist – without chaos nothing can evolve."

~ Oscar Wilde

  

The Jazz of Innovation

Yin and Yang of the Jazz of Innovation

11 Guiding Principles

  

 
   

Find the Right Balance
Between Structure and Improvisation

 

  

 
 

You need a certain amount of chaos to embark on creative improvisation but not to the point that you feel overwhelmed by the amount of chaos. Too much disorder and uncertainty discourage people from mobilizing their best effort. Purpose, strategic direction, and the right amount of structure create freedom to invent and innovate. People feel liberated by stretch goals, strategic alignment, and guidelines.

  

 
   

Practice Loose-Tight Leadership

 

  

 
 

Leading innovation is a delicate and challenging process. You need to encourage expansive out-of-the-box thinking to generate new ideas, but also filter through these ideas to decide which to commercialize.

 

Leading Innovation

Ask Learning SWOT Questions

  

 
 

Use a balanced "loose-tight" style of leadership for this purpose.

Alternate the creation of space for idea generation and free exploration with a deliberate tightening that selects and tests specific ideas for further investment and development.

  Loose-Tight Leadership, jazz-like innovation process

 
 

Looseness usually dominates the early stages of the innovation process; in the later stages, tightening becomes more important to scrutinize the concepts and bring the selected ones to the market.

 

Innovation vs. Operations

Creative Leadership

  

 
 

A balanced approach is essential to loose-tight leadership.

Those who remain loose too long generate plenty of ideas but have difficulty commercializing them.

Those who are too tight confine innovation to incremental line extensions that add little value.