Life must be understood backwards
but it must be lived forwards.
Diary Journals IV A by Soren Kierkegaard 1840
Chart 2: A comprehensive survey of the lessons according to the different topics.
No | Topic | Lesson |
1 | Innovation | Innovations are consciously introduced on purpose! |
2 | Economy | The benefit of an innovation is a reward for uniqueness! |
3 | Improvement | Some innovations do not provide a perceptible surplus value! |
4 | Disruption | Some innovations cause a creative destruction! |
5 | Technology | Technology is the framework for innovations! |
6 | Science | Innovations follow the scientific concept of objectivation! |
7 | Elenctic | Innovative ideas need a transformation of unconscious ignorance into conscious knowledge! |
8 | Entelechy | Innovations emerge from a sequence of innumerable intelligent thoughts, much theoretical recognition, some data information and a convincing display! |
9 | Epistemology | Nothing is more certain for an innovation than a believable and justified perception! |
10 | Categories | Innovative approaches can be assessed by a plurality of categories! |
11 | Management | Skilled work, work force, cooperation and work division are still the main duties of innovation management! |
12 | Project | Innovation management is project management with special intentions! |
13 | Culture | The complexity of innovations requires a culture of flexibility! |
14 | Phases | Innovation projects consist of different phases for management and for work! |
15 | Success | The success of innovations is flanked by a triangle of execution, application and business; yet always challenged by coincidences! |
16 | Promoters | An innovation has to be supported by manifold mindsets! |
17 | Marketing | The economic value of an innovation is generated in the market! |
18 | Barriers | Barriers for innovations are useful, yet even more useful if surmounted! |
19 | Diffusion | Innovation progress takes generally an s-shaped course! |
20 | Design | The innovation reward is always due to human appreciation! |
21 | Opening | Openness facilitates innovations, yet by reducing exclusivity! |
22 | Invention | Inventions are just executable ideas for applications! |
23 | Development | Inventions mainly resolve technological problems! |
24 | Quality | Quality management promotes inventions! |
25 | Checklist | Scampering with questions provides inventive solutions! |
26 | Principles | Inventions can be principally derived from an analysis of patents! |
27 | Morphology | A general analysis provides inventive approaches! |
28 | Research | Research concerns a deliberate problematization of the obvious! |
29 | Falsification | The search for illogicality enables an inventive logic! |
30 | Uncertainty | Inventions need a controversial bossiness! |
31 | Contradiction | Inventions are spurred by contradictory aims! |
32 | Incompleteness | Doubts can cause an inventive change! |
33 | Prognosis | Algorithms are the main tool to derive inventive predictions! |
34 | Prophecy | The casting of opinions is a step toward inventive perspectives! |
35 | Anticipation | Inventions can be tracked by future paths of innovations and of technologies! |
36 | Trend | Inventions go by trend settings! |
37 | Forecast | Complex systems have room for inventive scenarios! |
38 | Creativity | The human mind creates inventive ideas all by itself! |
39 | Inspiration | New things are always somehow associated with existing things! |
40 | Improvisation | Necessity is the mother of invention! |
41 | Interpretation | Good conversation does sometimes suffice to obtain an inventive idea! |
42 | Intuition | Inventive ideas come along with some rest and relaxed meditation! |