Comments on: New! Improved! Shiny! Yes, It’s Innovation 7.0!!!

By: How You Define a Problem Determines if You Can Solve It « Connect « Innovation Leadership Network

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:37:49 +0000

[...] I’ve argued previously that one of the reasons that people have problems with the idea of innovation is that it is intentionally broadly defined. Here’s what I said: … a penguin and an eagle are both birds, yet they look completely different, they act differently, they live in different environments, there’s no clear connection between the two of them. If we try to use the word ‘bird’ to describe two such obviously different things, then it is a useless word, and we shouldn’t use it at all. [...]

By: Quick Thoughts on Innovation « Connect « Innovation Leadership Network

Quick Thoughts on Innovation « Connect « Innovation Leadership Network — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:50:12 +0000

[...] out her blog – it’s very good). It is one of the best frameworks I’ve seen for classifying some of the important subsets of innovation. She talks about the differences between innovating at the more straightforward end of the spectrum [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:35:18 +0000

Thanks Martijn! I think that both Siemens & Berkun are terrific writers and they provide great resources through their blogs and other activities – so it’s not meant as a shot at them.

But I agree with you – I think that both points are worth having a dialogue over. As you say, it’s part of the process of working out ideas.

By: Martijn Linssen

Martijn Linssen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:31:55 +0000

Fine post Tim, fun beginning too

I share your opinion, both posts seem to be re-actions and are rather somewhat black-or-white: that’s what among others bandwagonism does.

But I think this is how learning and opinion-forming works: you state one thing, and “when proven wrong” you state the opposite. When wrong again, you go sit somewhere left of the middle, then right, whatever.

This post helps to do that, so does my comment, and the great think of all this blogging and tweeting is that it happens now at a global scale with the speed of light.

Now that’s what I call innovation!