Innovation

This is just some random thoughts about innovation I commented on Ton's blog . Just a holding place till I have time to think more about it.

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The problem i see 'innovation' as talked about, wrote about is: 'inovation' is equate to 'invention'. But is it?

Most of us 'innovate' all the time, but if it not BIG enough that can be noticed, it is not 'inovation', it is NOT new idea.

Before the craz about 'innovation' (the same I feel about all these talks about knowledge management), does it mean that we NEVER inovate? I think the more we talk about things such as inovation, KM, trust, the more we are confusing the 'average person'. THe more we confuse them, the more they become wondering if the belong to the 'inovative' society. All these talks about inovation actually kills innovation. People become scares of doing things that is wrong in the eyes of all these talks from clever researchers.

All these reminds me of the time I took an appetitude test to be a software programmer. In 1980. The report came back and told me/my manager the tests shown that I can do 'simple thing'. I did not get the job of course. Worse still that same casual remark crashed me. For years I walked around wondering how simple is simple enough for me to manage.

And if such a report can crashed a person who has a strong personality like me, can one imagine what it would do to anyone who has lesser self-confidence?

In my observation, we as a people, has one thing to learn: to be less of an individual, and more as a team player and support one another. No matter how clever or inovative you think you are, you need others to support you and your ideas. Inovation can never happen from the idea of JUST ONE SINGLE person. That I think is what is missing in most of the discussions that I read.

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