If you are a result oriented person, you have to definitely read one book. The title of the book is “Thinking for Results”. It was written by Christian D Larsen. The book was published in the year 1912. Thousands of readers have benefited by reading the book.

The book starts with a positive note: “That man can change himself, improve himself, recreate himself, control his environment and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action. In fact, it is the conviction of all such minds that man can do practically anything within the possibilities of the human domain when he knows how to think, and that he can secure almost any result desired when he learns how to think for results.”

It is easy to see the vital importance of thinking validly. If we don’t, in all probability we may not get the correct results.
The powers of thought are developed by right thinking.
Man is as he thinks he is, and what he does is the result of the sum total of his thought. The average person however thinks at random and therefore lives at random and does not know from day to day whether good or evil lies in his path.

Have a plan and see it through.

Give your whole life to it.
In thinking for results all circumstances should be viewed as opportunities because that is what they are in reality.
Think positively. Think scientifically. Every thought is a power in the life where it is created and will either promote or retard the purpose of that life.

Thinking is an art. You can master it by learning the secrets.
To think is not expensive. It needs no apparatus, no personnel and no premises. There is no cost involved in thinking! The practice of thinking remains, not only man’s highest and noblest activity, but also one of the few pursuits he may follow without having to pay for it.
The only equipment is one’s head; the gears and pinions of the brain, and the lever that sets them turning.

Do not think of weakness.

Do not think of possible failure.

Do not think of obstacles.

Think of the tremendous power within you. Think how you could turn on the full current of that power so that what you want to accomplish positively will be accomplished.

The Christian D. Larsen’s way is a sure way to: thinking for the best results! One should read the book: Thinking for Results.

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Since the last 3 years India has been the most happening market for all industries in Europe and USA. Outsourcing all production work to India was the most common solution to reduce production cost. Due to this money started to flow in India and international organizations realized the potential. Last 2 years showed major economic explosion. This affected Indian organizations in many ways.

Indian organizations got benefited due to economic explosion. People had enough money to buy goods and services which were of a better quality and design. Since many foreign companies were serving goods and services of high quality and design, Indian organization had to match them to survive in the competition. They were forced to pay attention to design, quality and service. These companies eventually hired a lot of designers. Many new design schools opened in India in the last two years to cater to this growing need of industries.

Things changed so fast that there remained a fundamental flaw which is now back firing. Organizations hired designers but failed to use their creative potential to the fullest. These organizations were not ready for the fundamental changes which enable designers explore and show their creative talent. Indian organizations are infested with hierarchy, rigid policy, strict rules, uneven power distribution and frightful environment which are major contributions to kill creative ideas and motivation to work. This is making designers quit jobs frequently.

1) Research suggests sustained innovation and creativity demands a specific kind of

• Organization policy

• Organization structure

• Organization processes and

• Organizational environment

For any Indian organization these changes are radical change in the way it governs or makes business. These changes are perceived as threat to the current success, progress and optimized processes for economical production of goods and services.

Innovation and creative process in organizations is governed by managers. These managers are not designers nor do they have formal training in innovation and creativity. They are more concerned about optimization of the resources, reducing the cost etc. Research says these managers are responsible to kill creativity and disconnect a good idea to reach the CEO.
Research also says no organization can survive for a long time just by reducing cost.

2) Some companies who started recently did it right, but they did not succeed in a long run because there was no system to manage the process of innovation and creativity. And why would there be? There is no institution which gives training in innovation and creativity. This education is fundamentally different from the design or design management education that is given in any design schools.

India as of today is becoming more unattractive to MNCs who are trying to come in because of increase in the salary expectations. It clearly shows that market is going to stabilize in a few months from now leaving India with no incoming money. This would continue unless organizations find a sustained ways to keep the money circulating. Edward De-bono says innovation and creativity is the only sustained way to survive in along run and stay ahead in competition.

It is time for Indian organizations to capitalize on the current economic situation and successfully instutionalize innovation and creativity.

When I first started my studies I thought this is the case only with Indian organizations but recently I found that this is a typical scenario across globe. Organizations in India and abroad are facing problems either in implementation of innovation and creativity or managing innovation and creative people.

Some CEO’S think that their organization does innovations and is very creative at work. They tend to confuse innovation with design. There was an interesting survey done which found that the definition of innovation these CEO’S made varied from gaining a lot of business from the product to changing the color of product from black to blue.

There are various measures of innovativeness. A simple way to find is to look at the product, process, system, service, or an environment the organization developed in one year and ask the following questions:

A) Are there 5 new products that did not exist in the world before?

B) Do these 5 products fundamentally change?

• The way company made business

• The way company manufactured distributed or marketed the products

• The way it is used by the end user

C) Have the products solved the problem that was lasting for over a decade ?

Some designers think that a good design (example an ergonomically better mouse) is also an innovation. The exact difference between a better design and innovation can be explained if you look at the following briefs given to designers

• Design a better mouse. (Would definitely be a mouse)

• Design a hand held input device. (Can be any input device)

• Design a way to give input. (may be device, may be process)

• Design an input system to do the task. (May be one or many device)

• Design an environment to do the task. (May be one or many device or none)

Not many organizations give their designers the last two briefs which have high probabilities of getting close to an incremental innovation.

A radical innovation is still much ahead of these briefs. This may cater to unsolved problems in areas where there is no existing product. In those cases the briefs are made from extensive trend analysis, market research, socio-psychological and ethnographic studies. There are many ways that organization can adopt or deal with this fussy front-end and develop a strategy for innovation.

What does it take to do these changes? How would it affect the way organization function? What is ROI?

1) It takes major change in the way organization works in terms of the organization structure, process, policy and the environment. There is a systematic way to implement this change. As I told earlier that these changes will always be resisted and avoided in organization, hence for successful implementation of change effective communication and convincing becomes necessary apart from managing the change.

2) Companies try to adapt models of previously established companies. These models may have compatibility issues. They either may not suit the kind of work the company does or they may face problems related to culture, social and political conditions in the organization.

3) There is no limit to R.O.I of implementing innovation and creativity but there are ways to work around it and demonstrate it on sample projects.

4) Innovation outsourcing (different from design outsourcing) cannot solve the problem as it would get expensive over a period of time and companies would need to have it in-house.

5) Innovation and creativity training would help to some extend but unless organization make the fundamental changes, instutionalize innovation, bring it into process, and consistently feed the innovation pipeline they may not be able to taste the real fruits.

3M, Google, give atleast 15% of time to employees to work on project that they feel interesting and would benefit the company.
3M made post-itTm from such a program and is still making 100 million dollars each year. 3M also has a policy to make 5 products every year that did not exist in market before.
Google, E-bay, Amazon and Apple changed and are the top 4 growing brands in the world.

The take-away are:

• Start with outsourcing Innovation. Hire an innovation consultant.

• Train people in house in innovation and creativity/hire designers.

• Build a innovation centre.

• Mean while slowly Change. (managed)

>Organization structure (hierarchy, power distributions)

> Policy

> Processes

> Environment

• Establish system for sustained Innovation.

> Market research

> Trend analysis

> Design and innovation management

I am a deziner by proffession (Architect and Industrial designer) I been stuyding innovation and creativity since last few years. My expertise is around the areas of idea generation, creative facilitation, structured innovation process, implementing innovation and creative process in organizations, design management, trend analysis.

The tools, techniques and methods that i use are systematic, scientiic and research based. They can be customized to organisations in any sector like IT, consumer goods, education, agriculture, films, and advertising etc.

Email: idrushi@gmail.com