Innovation ~ Future of CIO

Innovation & user experience: The digital era upon us is about people-centricity. Creating innovative products that are profitable to the business while being exciting to customers. The term “user experience design” in digital product development as a full lifecycle of research – “define – design – prototype – iterate – test,” is based on a set of suitable standards and design principles. User Experience design explains the why – the purpose of design, and rules which explain how.

It’s important to shape a clear User Experience vision, convey persuasive communication and build a customer-centric strategy. User Experience needs to be owned by the business, not by the design team alone; only then, can you get the best experience with consistency. The focus on what the User Experience should look like, what gimmicks it must include, along with the challenge of meeting these expectations. To shape a clear vision and build a holistic business strategy, you can have tactical and calculated deviation, special cases and exceptions, their combined effect would push user-experience to your perceived vision.

Innovation & ideology: Nothing is perfect, people envision the better future and explore better ways to do things. Ideology matters, as it means how to challenge the ideology of management, talent pipeline development, and methodology. There is energy between people, meaning they are not afraid to say things that will help the business shape the better future. The diverse viewpoints are welcomed, even if they seem to conflict, conflicts can be handled wisely. Things are being acted on, the team is energized and there is a healthy debate, but not debating for the debate’s sake.

Ideologically, effective organizations, no matter large or small, have a multitude of positive characteristics. It creates a sense of positive competition in the team, and a number of times, a lot of new ideas come up for some very difficult tasks. Often, traditional organizational management practices create silo thinking, encourage “command & control”; lack of flexibility. As a result, it risks being relegated to status to a simple process driven ideology rather than an enabler to address future pressures and provide the structured platform required to meet new challenges required by today’s market.

Innovation & provocativeness: Innovation is to explore the “art of possible”; come out with fresh ideas or solutions that we can be provocative, passionate, really intrinsically motivated about, and courageous enough to implement or execute ideas in new and unexpected ways. Incubating new entrepreneurial initiative and thus creating links with a different set of individual cultures. Take the provocative questions initiative, seeking mysteries and paradoxes that the questions for which there were no answers were the ones worth asking.

As the old saying states: there is no such thing as a stupid question, it takes courage and humility to ask thought-provoking questions. Good questions provoke comprehensive answers; great answers stimulate more thought-provoking questions. The management should build a comprehensive innovation agenda, have access to both internal and external resources to achieve the desired ROI.

With the high velocity and unprecedented uncertainty, disrupting, or being disrupted? There is more flow of creative ideas, the more is happening, the innovation pie gets bigger. The expanded boundary amplifies the collective potential to innovate. The higher the level at which we are engaged and stimulated to imagine, the more likely we can spur great ideas and become inspired to take creative activities, explore alternative solutions and build innovation competency.