Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.