Innovation Styles provides a great summary of four innovation thought processes for your business:
Visioning: To envision the ideal future
Modifying: To refine and optimize what has come before
Exploring: To discover new and novel possibilities
Experimenting: To combine and test many unique combinations
There are two dimensions that form the four Innovation Styles:
What stimulates and inspires this style’s innovativeness?
Facts, details and analysis
OR
Intuition, insights and images
How does this style approach the innovation process?
Focused, well-planned and outcome oriented
OR
Broad, perceptive and learning oriented