Turning a Failed Idea into A Successful Practice

By Yann Cramer, Innovation Excellence,on September 3, 2012 

 

In a recent article Peter Denning questions the common conception that organizations need to invest more in generating ideas to foster innovation. Instead he emphasizes the notion of practice, noting that we may actually be ‘idea rich, selection baffled and adoption poor’.

In extreme cases, our obsession with the idea idea leads us to look backward into successful innovations to reinvent the ideas that would be at their core, failing to recognize that experimentation and practice may have been the dominant success factors. More details>>>