Innovation Survey - Lowering the Bar
This survey is fuel for my last post: http://reveries.com/reverb/research/innovation_engine/
It covers businesspeople's (200 responses) views of their company's success with innovation. Based on the number of truly innovative products I see in the marketplace, either the respondents work for an elite set of companies, or our bar for innovation "success" is falling.
Gosh - I feel so pessimistic today. Would love if someone could help me see this through rosy glasses. I'm certain I'm missing something. I'm just worried that if companies keep putting so much faith in innovation, when that innovation is far from ground-breaking, it won't produce bottom-line growth and firms will eventually say, "Innovation? Yeah, we invested in it, but there was no return. We've decided to stick to driving the status quo."
It covers businesspeople's (200 responses) views of their company's success with innovation. Based on the number of truly innovative products I see in the marketplace, either the respondents work for an elite set of companies, or our bar for innovation "success" is falling.
Gosh - I feel so pessimistic today. Would love if someone could help me see this through rosy glasses. I'm certain I'm missing something. I'm just worried that if companies keep putting so much faith in innovation, when that innovation is far from ground-breaking, it won't produce bottom-line growth and firms will eventually say, "Innovation? Yeah, we invested in it, but there was no return. We've decided to stick to driving the status quo."
posted by ROInnovation at 12:39 PM
4 Comments:
Scott you aren't being pessimistic, I think it's a real concern. Back to my post about Gary Hamel where innovation of management practises is key to deliver innovation, it was sobering to see that on the list of types of innovation the innovation of management was not even featured as an option.
Gary Hamel said that his team at the London Business School had analysed the number of articles featured i a variety of global business magazines and the majority mentioned innovation around products and services rather than innovation of managment itself. And this is the top of the heirarchy (according to him) of making innovation happen.
It is amazing that we see people satisfied with the amount of effort they're putting in around products and services innovation, not realising that it's nothing if there's not an innovative culture in which ideas can be received and grown...and yes, I think it will result in disappointment.
But I don't think people will ever question the need to innovate - mainly because they are being forced to face that that is where the money is - by their miriad of competitors who are by their small, swift nature much more innovative about how they manage their companies (Google, 3m, Gore, even Toyota).
I'm confused... the last comment is the second time that our blog has been "spammed". These invitations to make extra cash are an insult to our intelligence and completely irrelevant to our blog.
Does anyone have ideas on how to address the situation? We need to keep the "comments" settings open so you can all contribute... but want to cut out the spam. Advice welcome.
If you set up the blog, you may be able to turn on word verification which will make them go through a verfication process before they post.
Depends on what the dashboard capability is. I had a quick look but cannot control anything or delete posts. That and you may be able to report them to spamhaus.
Hope that helps.
I am a wordpress user which has a software called 'askimet' which filters spam. You should be able to delete the spam comments manually as well - have a little play with your dashboad.
PS: Pam click on my name and you'll be re-directed to my blog
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