Tradition: Nobody likes change! Innovation: To keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is insanity!
Tradition: I like it this way! Innovation: If it was better wouldn’t you like it better?
Tradition: My way is proven! Innovation: Your way was innovation 30 years ago, what about some improvements?
Tradition: I like my stuff, the place where I live, the community around me. Innovation: You seem to be attached to that cell phone, the thermal windows, and the online chat groups in your extended community. Not that long ago those things did not exist!
Tradition: I like some of the new things by you seem to want to change the things I like the most! Innovation: In time everything we like the most evolves and changes and becomes the new thing we like the most.
Tradition: I like my coffee. Innovation: Looks like a steamed mocha Java to me not just a plane old cup of coffee any more.
Tradition: Chocolate. Innovation: Have you tried the new imported 68% chocolate non-dairy imported from… Oh to die for!
Tradition: My news paper. Innovation: On line or via text message on your blackberry?
Tradition: I don’t like you innovation guys messing with my food crops all that genetic splicing and stuff. Innovation: We are on the edge of curing many of the cancers.
Tradition: You have some very freakish things spliced up Spider-Goats, Day glow Squid-Sheep. Innovation: Milk from Spider-Goats gives us a fiber that is lighter and stronger than Kevlar. We use it in police and military flack jackets to protect lives. The wool from the Squid-Sheep and Squid-Rabbits produce new yarns for fabrics, in colors that don’t require toxic dyes from heavy metals. In addition to that, the logo is a hit with the younger generation.
Tradition: You are weird. Innovation: You are unaware.
Welcome to Imagination Factory
Did you like my two characters Tradition and Innovation chit chatting?
Project IF was put together as an exercise in creative thinking, by placing two divergent concepts together and seeing if something different results.
Imagination: Creative, cerebral with little or no boundaries or limitations.
Factory: The hard day to day nuts and bolts grind of producing something, fixed rules, parameters, specific materials, organization with a plan and purpose.
Today’s IF project is to define an “Innovative Traditionalist“.
What would that person do?
What would we expect from them?
What project would you assign them?
Would you fit into that new job description?
If you can answer any of the above questions you are that IT person we are looking for.
There is a space right below this article for you to contribute to IT. Help us discover what IT is. We need to hear folks say “I get IT”. “Now I see IT”. IT will not happen if you don’t write IT DOWN!
