November 24^th, 2010.

Information Technology world changes every moments, the products/systems we use today might be old tomorrow, next month or next year. This challenge enforced all IT professionals to be consistently think about the future and be innovative to meet the future demands. Looks like business also have changed their direction now, it’s not about our traditional service and product anymore instead this is a time where every individuals to large multi-national corporation are relying on social media, high e2e solutions, data motilities, seamless integration, emerging markets for their products and service excellencies. Their theme and future depends on how much they can innovate their tools, process, business and most importantly the entire information technology infrastructure itself to achieve the maximum and exceptional business results.

It’s our human nature that we want something different than what we have it today, but the question is how and what different you want? Some folk has brilliant ideas who can think, imagine and practice it differently than others. Innovation is all about anyone’s thinking into next level, different approach smartly, and improve the current products and services.  It’s about ‘How to change the world?’ Most of the entrepreneurs are afraid weather if their innovation fails or don’t get accepted by the people, but the truth is most of the innovative ideas, products and services are sell better than traditional ones.  The best way to get your innovation quicker is enable people to test your innovation, let them feel truly what it means to them, do whatever it takes to make this happen even if you have to work several hours, or door-to-door campaign.

Benefits of Innovation:

·         First in the market.

·         Increase shareholder return.

·         Break the momentum with potential large market share.

·         Successful on your business.

Example of Innovation:

·         iPhone.

·         iPad.

·         Electric Car.

So far we have seen most of the barrier breaking innovation are successful in the market and have earned big time market share around the globe. So, let’s talk about what it takes to innovate? Answer is very simple; it’s just an ‘idea’.  Wow is that simple? So why can’t everyone do innovation? They probably can but the biggest things which need to break the barrier are risk of failure. Most of us always have some idea if something don’t work out on what they supposed to, we always think if we had something like this, it could have been easier or faster etc. but the reason we are not being innovative are we don’t take it seriously or afraid of the risk factors.  Look at all the IT application, software; platform etc they were built because someone has realized that it is necessary to improve some specific product and services.