The ability to innovate and ideate are considered as cornerstones of Good designers. An Engineer’s ability to display these two qualities should lead her/him on to great accomplishments and designs.
One of the greatest innovators in recent times has undoubtedly been Google with their revolutionizing web searches and allied fields. So when a Google employee, and for that matter not just any employee, but their Vice President of Search Products & User Experience division Marissa Mayers talks about innovation and how to go about innovating, it pays to listen to her.
Calling it the 9 theorems of innovation, she goes on to talk about the philosophy and approach taken at Google that enables them to come out with their uber-cool services & products.
These theorems of innovation should be applicable in whichever branch of Engineering one may design for & needs to be inculcated on to oneself.
Posting this immensely engaging 49 minutes lecture, sprinkled with liberal dose of humor and anecdotes, she had delivered at the Stanford University a few years back – must watch.
If you are unable to watch it [bandwidth issues, maybe], then here are the 9 theorems that she talked about
- Ideas come from everywhere
- Share everything you can
- You are brilliant, we are hiring
- A license to pursue dreams
- Innovation not instant perfection
- Data is apolitical
- Creativity loves constraint
- Users, not money
- Don't kill projects, morph them
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