How to be more innovative

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Business Innovation has a tip on becoming more innovative. They might be talking about company innovation, but we can still apply it to our personal situations as well. What they are recommending is ask a lot of questions. But first, you must formulate the right questions to ask. Then ask alot of the right questions.

What are the right questions to ask about innovation?.

According to Gerald “SolutionMan” Haman, the president of SolutionPeople in Chicago and an adjunct professor of innovation at Northwestern University, there’s a simple tool for jump-starting innovation in the boardrooms across America: ask a lot of questions. As part of the “Questionate to Innovate” framework that Haman has developed, companies are asked to create “Question Banks” and to think just as hard about the right questions to ask as how to answer them. As Haman explained to the FORTUNE business innovation blog, it’s an approach that’s enjoyed some remarkable success over the years with some big-name clients

Some of my favorite questions come from famous people, with the number one coming from Robert Schuller. “What great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail?”

Do you have any questions that get the brain moving in creative ways? Post ‘em!