11 September 2006

Innovation ideas from Google

Those people at Google are so smart! Google’s 9 notions of innovation, as noted on Welcome to Optimism.
  1. Ideas come from everywhere. (Google expects you to innovate.)
  2. Share everything you can. (Every idea accessible to everyone.)
  3. You’re brilliant. We’re hiring. (Google favours intelligence over experience.)
  4. License to pursue dreams. (Employees get a ‘free’ day a week to pursue self-set projects.)
  5. Innovation, not instant perfection. (Google launches early and often with small beta tests.)
  6. Don’t politic, use data. (Use of ‘I like’ discouraged.)
  7. Creativity loves restraint. (Give people a vision.)
  8. Worry about usage and users, not money. (Provide something simple to use, easy to love. Money will come.)
  9. Don’t kill projects, morph them. (There’s always a kernel of something good that can be salvaged.)

3 comments:

Eclectchick said...

Ooooo, droolworthy stuff. Except, oddly, this one:

"Creativity loves restraint. (Give people a vision.)"

I can't quite get behind that one. Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong?

rigtenzin said...

I stumbled on that one too. Sometimes creativity needs restraint and other times restraint strangles creativity. And how is "Give them a vision" relevent to restraining creativity?

I've always felt like I was the little boy who noticed the king had no clothes.

Sophzilla said...

Maybe the "creativity loves restraint" comes from their experience with consultants.