Who’s Driving Your Innovation Bus?
Innovation has become the buzzword of the decade with every CEO, Senior Manager, and CTO beating the drum for "Innovation" in their companies. While I don't disagree with them on the need for innovation, I do have a major issue with the way that many of them are driving that innovation agenda.
When tech leaders or business leaders drive an innovation agenda within their own areas of speciality without integrating that agenda with the core value creating areas of the business the agenda is doomed to mediocrity. In addition, in most cases these leaders are not differentiating between "Innovating" (solving problems in new ways) and "Implementing Innovations" (the application of other's innovations within your business).
To be fair, I don't actually believe that Innovation is an either/or issue either, there are good reasons to implement other's innovations within your business. P&G has been very successful in knocking down the "not invented here" mentality that can slow the overall growth of an organization. But...
