I really enjoyed the recent conversation here on metacool about the meaning of designing. A bunch of us took at a stab at completing the sentence "Designing is...". Check out the comments here to see some of the thinking. I'm still mulling this stuff over; there's some good provocations there.
Now, what does innovating mean to you?
Innovating is...
A new node between dots to increase productivity or increase value of dots.
Posted by: hidezumi | 14 January 2009 at 12:02 AM
...hard work, tenacity, and discipline that ends up looking like magic. :)
Posted by: dria | 14 January 2009 at 05:23 AM
Innovation is the moment you are looking/doing something and the light-bulb just goes off where you find a better way to do it.
Posted by: Randy Ksar | 14 January 2009 at 11:15 AM
....Means by which one can create either new wealth-producing resource or endow existing resource with enhanced potential for creating wealth
....Systematic abandonment / creative destruction
....Purposeful and organized use of opportunity of changes
Posted by: Vishnu Andhare | 14 January 2009 at 11:32 AM
Usefulness in a new wrapping (:
Posted by: Liv Marit Naess | 14 January 2009 at 03:50 PM
...realizing a valua-enhancing idea in the right eco-system
Posted by: Otto Driessen | 15 January 2009 at 04:19 AM
...realizing a value-enhancing idea in the right eco-system
Posted by: Otto Driessen | 15 January 2009 at 04:20 AM
…using design to create a new and better way.
Posted by: Peter Thomson | 15 January 2009 at 12:28 PM
applied creativity . . .
Posted by: Joseph Pistrui | 17 January 2009 at 12:26 PM
What of the notion that innovation is business-friendly speak for "design" or design thinking?
Posted by: Daylin Breen | 18 January 2009 at 09:41 PM
...is a new and profound technology that made things more easier may it be for tangible or intangible objects.
kimberly ventura
Posted by: california web design | 18 January 2009 at 10:41 PM
...a leap in the genetic evolution of an idea
... the execution of the simplicity that was hiding amongst the clutter of the current paradigms
Posted by: bculligan | 03 February 2009 at 01:06 AM
...finding the perfect solution to a problem that you didn't realize existed.
Posted by: Joe Brown | 09 February 2009 at 06:37 PM
...oftentimes, a [self-evident] combination of already known elements that provides a completely new solution or a radical improvement to an existing one
Posted by: Santiago Rodriguez de Miguel | 21 February 2009 at 07:52 PM
i just bumped into this one reading "The Universal Traveler": innovation is the goal of creativity
Posted by: Santiago Rodriguez de Miguel | 22 February 2009 at 05:16 PM
....... Is illustrated by the old commercial with the guy eating a chocolate bar bumping into the guy eating peanut butter……… this is innovation in essence.
Posted by: Micromatt | 04 March 2009 at 01:15 PM