OFFICIAL @stonepayton #IDEF140 BALLOT

by Todd Schnick on January 22, 2009

INNOVATION DEFINED…Insights from the Twitterverse in < 140 characters!
To VOTE for the best definition of INNOVATION, review the list below, select the number of the definition you want to vote for, insert hashtag (#IDEF140) and include both in a Tweet to @toddschnick on Twitter.
Official Entries:
1. futurescape Innovation is a simple idea, executed well and adopted widely.
2. mikebrown  Innovation – The magic of imagining, implementing, & improving upon what’s been done before to benefit others.
3. Macker  Innovation is clarification, ideation, solutions development and implementation (read, action). It is only as hard as DOING it.
4. wwcasey Innovation is the combination of creativity (the idea), design (making it real), and implementation (making it available).
5. innovate  Innovation transforms useful seeds of invention into solutions valued above every existing alternative.
6. mikebrown  Innovation = A fundamental, valuable improvement relative to the status quo.
7. Macker Innovation is application of the novel and useful.
8. Macker  Innovation is the beginning of the intersection between invention and business insight.
9. innovatebig Innovation is identification of and solution to a real problem that shifts and extends any current understanding of the problem
10. Macker  Innovation = Invention + Business Insight + Execution. 
11. Macker  Innovation is the ability for a product or service to disrupt the industry or market space into which it is introduced.
12. joegerstandt Innovation is finding a new way to add/create value.
13. Macker Innovation is an applied mix of networking, teaming and customer insight.
14. askJayson Innovation – a new idea that radically changes the world with a positive influence.
15. JeffreyJDavis Innovation: Combining common elements in uncommon ways to create unique value.
16. skap5  Innovation is a better way to deliver value.
17. lisarokusek Innovation:More than just creativity.Insight put to action yielding a successful difference,change or new idea brought to life.
18. lisarokusek Innovation is the marriage of rupture and organizational execution giving birth to new realities.Requires discernment& measure.
19. gregorylent Innovation is another word for life, unfolding itself, to itself, by itself, unceasingly.
20. cfrew Innovation is the creative destruction of established norms or generally accepted ideas and concepts which catalyze a mindshift
21. JaneBozarth Innovation (n.): What everyone around me seems to be so afraid of.
22. LoriLeavitEvans Innovation is the transformation of knowledge into novel products or services that improve our economy in life, work or play.
23. pennyhaynes INNOVATION: Creating a method or product that improves a traditional idea OR efficiently meets a need heretofore unaddressed.
24. epredator Innovation scrapes away the surface tarnish of everyday normality and reflects the light of a brighter future.
25. gregorylent Accelerating innovation, as much an allowing, as a doing.
26. CBones Innovation is the creation of something new that becomes widely adopted and creates significant economic or social value.
27. mikebrown Innovation-Taking NO, not for an answer, but for the inspiration to bring something beautifully new and wonderful to life.
28. camcd Innovation is allowing the process of creating and implementing new and better ways of achieving desired stategic outcomes.
29. ckluis Innovation = creating value through good design, R&D vs. manipulation of information.
30. lareynolds Innovation: Ask an uncommon question about a common problem… then act on the answer.
31. rapidbi Innovation = ability to generate ideas * ability to implement.
32. rapidbi Innovation = creativity*risk.   
33. atlbizconsult Way to see things not as they are, but as they can be, borrowing data from other arenas and combining processes for better results.
34. creatingchange Innovation = The net result of risk-taker’s proactive, creative change concepts, effectively explained so $ result.
35. Macker Innovation is clarification, transformation and implementation.
36. Macker Innovation is exploring a challenge, imagining the possibilities, shaping the future, and acting on it.  
37. Macker Innovation is the art the possible united with the discipline of the necessary.
38. mikebrown Innovation = The ability of @Macker to create scads of “innovation” definitions.
39. mikebrown Innovation = ((thinking randomly + borrowing liberally) / implementing successfully) x persistence x time.
40. mikebrown Shattering the status quo into a million pieces that reform into something much better and more beneficial.

Tagged as: Innovation, Social Media, Social Networking, Stone Payton, Twitter

  • http://www.innovationROI.com Stone Payton

    Good Luck Everyone — Can’t Wait To Write The Prize Check, Have The Winner On Our Radio Show, and Share Your Winning Definition with the Innovation Community !

  • Patrick

    I like #5 the best

  • Fernando Pablo Gonzalez Steimle

    It is unbelievable how hard is to innovated about innovation, isn’t it?

    On my personal point of view i can say:

    Innovation Formula

    If:

    I is Innovation
    K is Knowledge
    o is Obsolescence
    N is Need
    i is Imagination
    A is Abundance
    c is Conformity
    ph, t and n are Variables of Evolution and/or Aptitudes
    ph Physical
    t Tenacity
    n Negligence

    (((imposible to write my equation on a correct math way )))

    ^ means Exponential

    I=[Integral of](phK^o(tN^i / nA^c))

    So that way we can say that Innovation is the integration of Physical Aptitudes as a factor of knowledge empowered by the obsolescence of personal criteria multiplied by the Tenacity factor of the need empowered by the personal imagination divide or de-multiplied by the rate of negligence factor of the abundance empowered by the comfort or conformity over the goods.

  • Fernando Pablo Gonzalez Steimle

    And if you consider that I am the winner I will be happy to donate to the Atlanta´s Furniture Bank the half of the prize.

    Call me, I may have few ideas…

    But must know better the problem

    Ciao

    Fernando

  • Bellesan

    #2Mike Brown DEF140

  • Kathy

    I believe #5 is the best.

  • Mary Warsinske

    I vote for #5, it is the best definition.

  • Jennifer

    My vote goes to #5 — Innovation transforms useful seeds of invention into solutions valued above every existing alternative.

  • Nancy

    #4

  • http://stratige.net/ Jorge

    Here;s my 2 cents:

    innovation is an invention that has a social or economic impact on the world, it changes the way we do things.

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  • constructiveinterference

    Here is my shortest definition (Twitter-like) but not entered in the original call “practical creativity”

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