Two recent articles on innovation — The Harvard Business Review’s “Please, Can We All Just Stop Innovating?” and the Wall Street Journal’s “You Call That Innovation?” — caught my attention and got me to thinking. Both lamented the rise of innovation labs across the business-scape that start out with good intentions but tend to fall short of delivering.
Indeed, it seems as if even the word innovation has lost its boldness, its impact, its edge…simply because the labs and innovation officers aren’t really producing anything monumental or substantive.
