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Rimshot? Moonshot? So what?!? - Is ridicule as an indicator of innovation?

DrewCM's picture
Submitted by DrewCM on May 16, 2012 - 10:15pm
Chat Date: 
Thu, May 17, 2012

One of the greatest challenges for those working in the innovation space is the recognition of innovation in terms of impact. Many of us, and our clients if we are consultants, are seeking breakthrough innovations yet true breakthroughs seem few and far between. The promise of innovation might be market transformation yet most enterprises seem to be living on a diet of incremental improvements and half-step changes as compared to much desired second order changes. The path to innovation success itself is strewn with abject failures and comical shortcomings.

So what?

Rimshot? Moonshot? So what?!? - Is ridicule as an indicator of innovation?

DrewCM's picture
Submitted by DrewCM on May 16, 2012 - 10:16pm
Chat Date: 
Thu, May 17, 2012

One of the greatest challenges for those working in the innovation space is the recognition of innovation in terms of impact. Many of us, and our clients if we are consultants, are seeking breakthrough innovations yet true breakthroughs seem few and far between. The promise of innovation might be market transformation yet most enterprises seem to be living on a diet of incremental improvements and half-step changes as compared to much desired second order changes. The path to innovation success itself is strewn with abject failures and comical shortcomings.

So what?

Balancing Perceptive and Analytical Thinking in Innovation

Renee Hopkins's picture
Submitted by Renee Hopkins on May 09, 2012 - 5:00pm
Chat Date: 
Thu, May 10, 2012

I'm inspired this week by Jonah Lehrer — NOT his most recent book, Imagine. Instead I want  to talk about decision-making and reference Lehrer's previous book, How We Decide, published in 2009).

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