How Companies Kill Innovation – A Good Laugh
Internal forces are often the worst enemies of innovation. Not much else to say on this : – )
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Hey, Stephan, well done. Would have worked better as a tomato though. Tomato sauce tastes nothing like a tomato and can’t be used instead of it!
But a point well made, none the less. I use the analogy of looking for treasure in a fire bucket in the corporate corridor compared to exploring for it on a global beach.
Look for as long as you like, but you’re unlikely to find a gem in a bucket, but look long enough on a beach and the chances are much better. The morale?
Innovation is best looked for outside the organisation, not within it. See my blog post:
http://www.blog.lanzen.co.uk/?p=219
Cartoonist must have worked with “innovator” Sun Microsystems ? Especially the “Management Indecision” looks familiair.. and the “Stubbornly Marketed as Original Idea” as well..
Oh, yeah, the management indecision!!!
Most due to the poor internal talent mgmt, sometimes cross-cultural communication(diversity/equality) problem in MNCs.
Good one!! its quite true..
Also the not invented here (by My Department / Division et) is also a real good idea crib killer.
He forgot the worms coming from other apples, bringing the meat back to their own to build their empires…
Very good capture of the process. In our company we have an additional two steps that ensure that the product project manager will have their arteries hardened even more: first is a matrix organization where the person responsible for completing the project has no actual resources working for them and is entirely dependent on another person who does not know how to lead or delegate. Then to make sure that the process is completely hosed, during the phase where the projects are slowly dying, develop task forces from multidisciplinary groups who are forced to meet without having any ability or empowerment to actually make decisions. These ideas will forever bury the project (and the project manager)
The cartoonist has successfully put the real lifecycle of most of the innovations. However, the real situation is even worse than that. Many great innovations are killed unknowingly in various stage in many organizations.
Great piece and wonderful cartoon illustration of something that captures the process really well