Quiz and Innovation. Connecting the dots

Is there anybody who doesn’t know the word Innovation? Who doesn’t talk about Innovation? People say we have to be Innovative, but I ask what it takes to be Innovative? When do you call a company or a person Innovative?

In simple words, Innovation is the process of creating effective solutions, processes and products that improve business. Being Innovative also means adapting to the even changing business environment.

New technology, new regulations and policies, environmental changes, shareholder expectations, financial market pulse are some of the key factors that keep the business environment dynamic.

The variables that define the business environment are like dots on a canvas. And Innovation is the portrait that you make connecting the dots.

So when you wish your workforce to be Innovative, you have to give them a  canvas with enough dots.

But everybody has their own perspective and so can make their own personas looking at the dots. Hence along with the canvas with the dots, we have to give them the starting point too. The starting point will sync everybody's focus.

The common approach is to write long emails, held webinars. People are bored of this.

An Innovative approach for Innovation fostering is to use the power of quiz. 

The aim of this Quiz will not be to check knowledge but to send  triggers in people's mind

Why Quiz?

People tend to remember things when it is said in a context. During the context, people are paying their full attention to the topic being discussed. The questions that are generic enough; that are strong enough, so that people to go back and read the answers, sets the context. Now people have seen the dots of the canvas and the starting point. It just a matter of time before they complete the canvas. Experts state the following are key benefits of quizzes

• Quizzes improve or expanding one’s knowledge of things, either general or in specific area
• Quizzes are designed to promote, a fun way to study and in the process help improve one’s general knowledge
• Quiz competitions enable students to think from different angles or simply ‘to think out of the box’

Research shows that the students who had taken the practice quizzes performed better than those who just studied; their scores were three times higher.

So I say, to foster Innovation, be innovative in your approach. Go Quizzing guys...

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