{"id":824,"date":"2007-10-25T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/10\/25\/innovation\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T22:59:33","slug":"innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/10\/25\/innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceosforcities.org\/conversations\/blog\/2007\/10\/innovation_mistakes.php\">CEOs for Cities<\/a>, a pointer to an interesting article in <u><em>Business Week<\/em><\/u> about innovation &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/content\/oct2007\/id20071019_786269.htm\">Five Common Mistakes in Innovation<\/a> &#8212; that included the paragraph below, which really caught my attention.  Anyone who has ever participated in community initiatives, non-profit work, government or school-governance type stuff, knows the drill of endless &#8220;brainstorming&#8221; and &#8220;pilot initiatives.&#8221;  The frustration of seeing those things go (almost) nowhere takes its toll.  In reality, it&#8217;s like the author writes: &#8220;&#8230; the script for innovation isn&#8217;t a mystery. It just takes a long time and a lot of change to pull off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the excerpt that looked <em>so<\/em> familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 Over-reliance on pilot initiatives &#8220;We&#8217;ll be more innovative if we do more brainstorming sessions.&#8221;In an attempt to take action quickly, some companies initiate projects that focus on a single product idea or a promising near-term opportunity. Alternatively, they latch on to a single technique, such as ethnographies or brainstorming. Yet, for most companies, the scale of impact required is too massive to depend on a single approach.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing this, successful companies such as Procter &amp; Gamble (<a href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?symbol=PG\" rel=\"ticker\">PG<\/a>) are taking a portfolio approach to innovation, working with multiple consultants and using multiple methods so the process of innovation becomes a series of multiple experiments. They then come away with a better understanding of not only which methods and partners work, but which ones work best with their existing organizational culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via CEOs for Cities, a pointer to an interesting article in Business Week about innovation &#8212; Five Common Mistakes in Innovation &#8212; that included the paragraph below, which really caught my attention. Anyone who has ever participated in community initiatives, non-profit work, government or school-governance type stuff, knows the drill of endless &#8220;brainstorming&#8221; and &#8220;pilot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-innovation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}