Comments on: Improve Innovations Through Iteration

By: GeorgeB

GeorgeB — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:54:10 +0000

UNLESS you are going in circles it’s all iterative -
innovation goal is to break out of that useless loop
and move forward (a change from where you were). But then when you get there, there you are! UNLESS,,,

Seems the real challenge continues for “Changing the way we manage change..” (but I repeat myself, again..

By: martin king

martin king — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:53:13 +0000

Big banging probably comes from engineering mechanical midsets and in many engineering projects you have to get it right first time otherwise people might die.

Its all about risk.

Reducing risk helps innovation.

Iteration with adaptation seems a lot more organic to me.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:40:05 +0000

I’m a continuous incremental change guy too Martin… I definitely agree with you about the ideas coming from science – I try to incorporate several of those in my research. Thinking about the economy as a complex adaptive system is how I ended up primarily studying networks.

By: martin king

martin king — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:27:11 +0000

Its the old argument between big bangers Vs tweakers.

I’ve always been a fan of continuous incremental change.

There are a load of great ideas coming from quantum science (uncertainty) and Bio Science (self organisation, complexity, networks, iteration and fractals).

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:10:06 +0000

I agree with all of those points Wim – thanks for the comment!

By: Wim Rampen

Wim Rampen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:47:28 +0000

Hi Tim,

Indeed iterations are truly important as is the understanding that you’ll never be perfect before you get wet feet.

I do think though lot’s of companies rush their innovations to the market without testing them in a real-life though small environment.. Most will put some prototypes to the test, but hardly the end-to-end experience that goes with the new product or service… All will work fine technically, but then the experience of acquiring, installing, working etc etc kicks in.. lots of failure points that are mostly not taken into consideration when testing.

One should not forget that innovations for Customers are as much innovations to the organization and it’s employees/partners etc..

Thus prototyping and real-life testing in small environments (which could be niche markets or alike), could prevent a lot of big-time failures. It is better to fail fast (and cheap) and get some first rounds of e2e iterations before the innovation sees light for the many..

What do you think?

Wim Rampen
@wimrampen on Twitter

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