Innovation is nothing but doing
something different with a product or service to make it better cheaper and
more useful to people in many cases it may lead to the growth of complete
new market new solutions come into existence because of that. Let me explain this with an example. All of us have seen barbed wire fences across
the world but from where this idea of barbed wire came into existence
,before barbed wires fencing a large area was extremely expensive and
required a lot of labour since the fencing material was made of bricks
and stones but in 1867 Lucien Smith of Ohio came up with the idea of
twisting pieces of iron wires in such a way that they join up with adjacent wires
and at their junction the ends of the wires stand up straight in such a way
that someone who holds it carelessly may be injured, now this property of
barbed wires was used in making fences of animal farms that prevented
predatory animals and other trespassers from entering the farm and this was achieved
at a fraction of the cost of a fence made of wood and bricks.
So what does the above example
show a man had a problem he wanted fencing to be done to protect his
cattle at the same time he wanted it to be one at a cost that is affordable without
compromising on the effectiveness of the structure that would protect his
cattle. He observed the resources available to him thought about using it to achieve
the intended target and comes up with a solution that would satisfy his need.
On the face of it a solution
like barbed wire seems very simple but iron had been known to man for
thousands of years even iron wires were available to man for a long time by why
no one else thought what this man did. This simple innovation of barbed
wire is still being used across the world as a major fencing solution its no
rocket science it also shows that one does not need to be an engineer or a scientist
to innovate examples are there from people around the world that even innovation
can come from even the simplest of the people who have never read a letter of
their language.
In fact
human civilization itself is based on innovation the utilization of
fire for security and cooking was an
innovation so was utilization of wheel for making vehicles and pottery. The various tools
that man used for hunting like the bow and arrow ,man understood that highly
pointed objects when thrown with a good amount of speed would penetrate the flesh of
an animal deeper and faster also he understood the elastic properties of materials which was the string of the bow that was used to catapult the arrow with great speed.
So this little faculty
of the human mind that makes him think differently and try and find new solutions to
problems with the available resources should be encouraged every person in the world
can innovate.
Rakesh Mallick
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