INOVATION – INSIGHT 14 How are you equipping your people to think in a divergent manner? If you want to drive innovation you need to be doing something! CONVERGENT thinking brings together all of the known elements or components. It is safe and generally confirms what we already know. DIVERGENT thinking has the capacity to generate […]

INOVATION – INSIGHT 14 How are you equipping your people to think in a divergent manner? If you want to drive innovation you need to be doing something! CONVERGENT thinking brings together all of the known elements or components. It is safe and generally confirms what we already know. DIVERGENT thinking has the capacity to generate new ideas and elements. It is risky and has the potential to take is to unspecified places. Divergent thinking, to be effective needs to be driven by MODIFIERS. Those modifiers, like exaggeration and progression, have the capacity to drive new ideas, which can be researched, developed, tested and refined. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that while we are all capable of divergent thinking, the capacity to do it effectively is learned. While convergent thinking comes naturally, divergent thinking does not. So, what are you doing to equip your people to think divergently?   What…