{"id":20642,"date":"2016-11-30T10:49:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=20642"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:19:25","slug":"power-of-observation-leads-to-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/power-of-observation-leads-to-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of Observation Leads to Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation is a natural phenomenon that occurs over time. Think of things you see and use in your daily life that have evolved by leaps and bounds over time thanks to major innovations and improvements \u2013 wheels, telecommunication, computers, gaming and more.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s when we open our eyes and open our minds to the nature of improvement that innovation ignites.<\/p>\n<p>For over 27 years, so many people have reached out to our professional team at Davison because they believed in their ideas. They are <em>idea people<\/em>. They are <em>innovators<\/em>. They are <em>inventors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These clients believed that they had found \u201ca better way.\u201d While some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/submitidea.html?campaign_name=blogpost\">confidentially submitted ideas<\/a> for completely new inventions, others submitted ideas for innovations that would improve a current way something is done. They were able to tune into their power of observation and open their minds to the possibility of improvement. In either case, these client stories are not unlike the story of our founder, Mr. George Davison. While they may have tried and failed and then tried again and failed again, it\u2019s all a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/fail-your-way-forward\/\">failing your way forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As we keep going after our ideas, new observations are realized. We learn to understand why it didn\u2019t work the first time, the second time, the third time. However many times it takes is what\u2019s necessary to make movement and progress. Just take it from one of Mr. Davison\u2019s inspirational thought leaders:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI have not failed. I\u2019ve just found 10,000 ways that won\u2019t work.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Thomas A. Edison<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30274\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/edison-lab.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Edison\" width=\"385\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/edison-lab.jpg 385w, https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/edison-lab-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847 &#8211; 1931), in his laboratory at Orange, New Jersey. (Photo by Keystone\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The lesson is to keep curious, keep observing and continue on the path to innovation. If you have an idea and want help on your invention journey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/submitidea.html?campaign_name=blogpost\">contact us<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Media:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/od\/famousinventors\/fl\/Failed-Inventions-of-Thomas-Alva-Edison.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation is a natural phenomenon that occurs over time. Think of things you see and use in your daily life that have evolved by leaps and bounds over time thanks to major innovations and improvements \u2013 wheels, telecommunication, computers, gaming and more. It\u2019s when we open our eyes and open our minds to the nature &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,793,2,15],"tags":[72,60,61,8],"class_list":["post-20642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-2","category-innovative-inventions","category-inventing-advice","category-inventions","tag-innovation","tag-inventing","tag-inventing-advice","tag-invention"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Power of Observation Leads to Innovation - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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