Comments for Analogy and Creativity Blog http://creativityblog.structured-analogy-consultants.com A Structured Analogy Consultants weblog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:01:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on Genius and Madness by Frank Chen http://creativityblog.structured-analogy-consultants.com/2007/08/14/genius-and-madness/#comment-2 Frank Chen Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:21:31 +0000 http://creativityblog.structured-analogy-consultants.com/2007/08/14/genius-and-madness/#comment-2 I couldn't agree more with your conclusion. Having a great idea, any idea, is just the first step in the innovation process. Even though all ideas take hard work to imlement, some ideas will be easier to implement and some will be harder. I believe what makes one different from the other is how well a creative idea fits within the context of the situation. For example, the Youtube phenonmenon came at a time when broadband internet was just becoming available, when digital cameras and even phones start to have video capability and when mass storage of data was getting so cheap to enable mass video file storage. Thus, it was a great idea at the right context at the right time. At any other time, the Youtube inventors may be considered as madmen doing impossible projects. Frank Chen I couldn’t agree more with your conclusion. Having a great idea, any idea, is just the first step in the innovation process. Even though all ideas take hard work to imlement, some ideas will be easier to implement and some will be harder.

I believe what makes one different from the other is how well a creative idea fits within the context of the situation. For example, the Youtube phenonmenon came at a time when broadband internet was just becoming available, when digital cameras and even phones start to have video capability and when mass storage of data was getting so cheap to enable mass video file storage. Thus, it was a great idea at the right context at the right time. At any other time, the Youtube inventors may be considered as madmen doing impossible projects.

Frank Chen

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