What is innovation? A scientist inventing a new finding, a technologist creating new technology, a doctor having a breakthrough for a dreaded disease or an artist creating a masterpiece? Can a common mannot contribute to Innovation?
Let’s dive into this; this is very important and the very foundation of BreatheIT. We face many challenges every day. Most often, we brush those aside assuming, they are the usual way of life and that is how we live. If we add a thought for every struggle we have, however small they are, we can make a bigger and lasting impact by bringing changes and solutions to those. So all that we need is “not to ignore” these and spend some time over these. We all can be innovators.
Let’s take a real example. We get solicitors at our door, many of whom do not have any business with us. We wonder, how do we address them in a better way, without even opening the door. We wish, if there was a solution, which could show us, who is at the door, to help us decide how to engage with them. Few years back, someone thought of this and invented Ring door bell. What if everyone would have brushed this off? There are thousands of such examples, and we have solutions now. So, every small struggle poses an opportunity for innovation.
So how do we find the problems and solution. We do not have to make a large effort for finding problems. They are around us. We just need to spend sometime thinking over them. Next, how do we find solutions (not everyone can spend money and energy to create solutions)? We need a problem inventory and the right people to create solutions for these. BreatheIT is creating an inventory for problems for your everyday experience. Please share those with us (info@BreatheITFoundation). We will assess, who can create the solutions for us and make the outreach for these.
