Will my idea work?

As an innovator, I'm constantly thinking about how I can make my life and the lives of those around me easier or more streamlined.

I come up a lot of ideas that I think are reallyl great, but sometimes they arn't the most well thought out straight away.

The idea of refining my ideas and testing them through a quick feasibility study is the best way I've found to make my idea stronger.

The more I run my idea through these tests and bounce the ideas off others, the stronger my idea becomes. If my idea doesn't fair well in these exercises, I cut it.

Almost like cutting a child loose, it's hard to let go of an idea, but sometimes shelving it for a while is the best thing to do at the time.

- Steve King, co-founder Sming Innovations