Sliced bread. Every novelty comes after that, right? Yet, the machine took years to become mainstream. It wasn’t its invention that made it popular. The #innovation by Otto Frederick in 1917- packaging post-slicing to prevent staleness- that’s what made it successful. (1/n)
Most #innovations ‘fail’ if they don’t address the opportunity behind the problem-solving. It takes time. Apple’s Newton (‘93) failed but the iPod & iPhone ‘created’ new industries. Ditto, Gutenberg’s typeset machine invention but the much later success of printing press. (2/n)
Most of ‘corporate’ #innovation efforts are focused, certainty-seeking change efforts. So are the large ‘transformation’ programs. For true innovation to thrive,it needs to be unstructured (largely), free-wheeling, driven by a ‘moonshot’ vision. (3/n)
IMHExperience, #innovation cannot be ‘industrialized’. Templates work for change management, even in certain types of transformation (e.g. systems integration). A commitment to a continuous process of discovery, experimentation leads to an innovative culture. (4/n)
How organizations create and use that culture (scaling the collective energy arising out of discovery & experimentation) is how they become ‘innovative’. Requires investment, patience and time. ‘Disruptive innovation’ is rare and serendipitous. (5/5)
