Sharing Ideas
When you get an idea, what do you do? Write it down somewhere and lock it up? Most of us probably do not even write it down. And probably never share it. Daniel Scocco thinks that innovation is about sharing.
Instead of keeping ideas tightly locked try to share them and collect other people’s insights. Using this approach you will realize that the ideas alone will not suffice. You will need to test, execute, understand the market, research, test some more, and so on.
After all, even if others steal an idea, they cannot steal the brain that generated the idea.
Yeah that is the idea. They can not steal the brain and most importantly they can not steal th execution!
Anyway I just discovered your blog, and you have plenty of interesting info here. The design is beaultiful also, clean and simple.
Good work.
Comment by Innovation Zen — October 14, 2006 @ 10:30 pm
Thanks.
The first thing that struck me was how similar our thinking is. You wrote about Googling the idea to see whether there are any other similar ideas. I was telling people to do it as the second step.
1. Log your ideas
2. Search for similar ideas
3. Test it out with a few friends/colleague
4. Write down a list of steps to expand the idea
5. Find some ten uses of it and see whether anyone is willing to pay for one or two of those
6. Build a prototype and show it to larger circle
7. Start building the product/service based on the idea
We actually built several products this way.
I will definitely track your blog. You have lots of good ideas. My experience is that Sharing ideas in fact make the ideas themselves a lot better. It is a great test to see whether anyone gets excited by it.
Comment by dorai — October 15, 2006 @ 8:20 am
[...] This is such an interesting coincidence. I blogged about Sharing Ideas a couple of days ago. I think there is a great benefit to sharing knowledge too. [...]
Pingback by Knowledge Spiral « Dorai’s LearnLog — October 16, 2006 @ 11:07 am
Well, I have some ideas. Where do I send them?
Comment by vic — January 30, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
Vic,
You can create a blog and start writing about your ideas - one for each article. This will allow people to view them and comment them. Here are some tools you can use:
WordPress (you can start a blog called IdeaLog
Yahoo360 (you can not only have a blog but invite other people who may contribute)
blogger
There may be others.
– Dorai
Comment by dorai — January 30, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
Please check out idaloo.wordpress.com
Comment by Idaloo — December 16, 2007 @ 8:17 pm