If you want to innovate and make discoveries like penicillin, is out of the box thinking enough, or should you use next level ALIEN Thinking?
What is ALIEN Thinking?
Attention: Knowing how to actively look for the problems/things worth solving and improving
Levitation: Moving from understanding observations to gaining insights
Imagination: Connecting unrelated “dots” from different areas to envision what doesn’t exist.
Experimentation: Testing how to take an idea to a workable solution (use iteration)
Navigation: Steering past obstacles to find a way for your solution to move forward
What are Lessons Learned about innovation from the discovery of penicillin?
- Be curious and apply fresh eyes throughout the ALIEN Thinking process
- Touch all the bases/aspects of ALIEN Thinking
- Build teams with members excel at an aspect of ALIEN Thinking
