Dear Colleagues,
Let me draw your attention to a new article by Roberto Verganti in Harvard Business Review titled “The Innovative Power of Criticism.” According to Verganti, it is judgment rather than ideation that is the key to breakthroughs.
You will find it at URL:
https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-innovative-power-of-criticism
Abstract: We live in a world awash of opportunities. Thanks to the web, to globalization and to approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations easily have access to an unprecedented amount of ideas. The most difficult thing in this context, is to understand which direction to go. Often, the right ideas are even already in front of our eyes, but we recognize only those that support an old path. What we need, to recognize breakthrough directions, is not to generate one more idea, but to change our lenses. How? Through the art of criticism. The art of criticism enables us to explicitly question existing assumptions and turn them into a bold new interpretation. Taking a critical stance does not imply being negative, but going deeper, searching for contrasts between different perspectives, creating tensions, looking from a new vantage point, reshuffling things to find a new order. The article describes how to practice the art of criticism through cases and methods, such as working with a sparring partner, or clashing visions within radical circles. “While ideation postpones judgment, the art of criticism innovates through judgment”.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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