In their book 바카라Exprovement: Exponential Improvement Through Converging Parallels바카라, authors Hersh Haladker and Raghunath Mashelkar illustrate, with examples, how approaching a challenge from an entirely new perspective can result in exponentially improved outcomes
Exprovement, in simple terms, is exponential improvement. It is a perspective that addresses problems or inspires growth in hitherto unexplored ways, as explained in Exprovement: Exponential Improvement Through Converging Parallels by Hersh Haladker and Raghunath Mashelkar. So, how does one approach exprovement? The answer, according to the book, is simple: ask the right question.
While improvement is incremental, exprovement is an exponentially improved outcome to an existing or foreseeable challenge, accomplished by creating something that is currently not part of the ecosystem within which the problem exists,바카라 the authors say in the book.
The unexpected connection is more powerful than the one that is obvious. That is the theme of the book, illustrated in different contexts by 15 stories. The idea comes forth right in the introduction where the authors say, 바카라The clean slate is NOT about beginning from scratch. It is about beginning with a NEW PERSPECTIVE.바카라
Exprovement: The Gist
Perspective is what it takes to address problems or inspire growth, in ways people had never thought of before, as the book points out, adding that the perspective of exprovement that allows companies to start on a new footing바카라can be gained by looking for parallels outside of one바카라s industry.
Following is an excerpt from the book. According to the authors, this part is a 바카라great representation바카라 of how unrelated parallels can make exprovement happen.
바카라Phil McCrory was watching a TV news report on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 when he noticed that the fur of an otter who was a victim of this environmental disaster had soaked up a lot of oil바카라so much so that the water surrounding its body was completely free of petroleum! McCrory바카라s inquisitive mind got thinking, and drawing a parallel with all the waste hair that was collected at his salon every day, he decided to experiment. He gathered a bunch of hair clippings, stuffed them into a pair of his wife바카라s pantyhose (so they would be contained, yet remain absorbent) and put the spongy device into a children바카라s wading pool filled with a mixture of water and motor oil. His intuition had been correct바카라within minutes the hair-pantyhose 바카라sponge바카라 absorbed the oil from the water, turning it crystal clear! McCrory바카라s idea went on to be manufactured and sold by World Response Group as OttiMat, which has also been tested by NASA and has been used in clean-up efforts of oil spill disasters such as a 2,50,000-litre fuel oil spill in the San Francisco Bay in 2007 and the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. World Response Group also started manufacturing SmartGrow (based on McCrory바카라s other patent), a hair mat used to fertilize plants.바카라
Innovating on the Go
Haladker, an innovation practitioner, loves working on innovations and building and making things. The book, he says, is about a space he has studied, learnt and practiced. 바카라Being able to articulate how it is done is what inspired the book,바카라 he adds.
In case of Mashelkar, a science and innovation leader, the inspiration came from his classroom experiences. 바카라My lectures on serendipity over the years led me to an audacious thought of 바카라organised serendipity바카라. That inspired me to think about the method and madness of converging the parallels to create breakthroughs,바카라 he elaborates.
One concern for the authors was of staying relevant at all times. 바카라Books tend to get outdated,바카라 observes Haladker. The question was, how to keep their book up to date with the latest happenings, like anyone would in the digital world. Then came the big idea on the go.
We discovered that we can have QR codes in every chapter that can give access to more information digitally. We bridged the gap between the physical and digital worlds바카라making the book phygital,바카라 beams Haladker.
What Next
For his next book, Haladker has been toying with the idea of 바카라negative space and time바카라 and what it can do. 바카라An example of negative space and time is what movie theatres do at 6 am. So may be, (I can) explore this a little more,바카라 he says.
Mashelkar, meanwhile, is working on a 바카라subject that is even more intriguing바카라 than the one on.