[Archive] Innovation Management in tweets ...

  • Many people mix up the terms invention, idea and innovation.
  • Innovation is the first(ish) attempt to put an idea into practice. You can manage the process of implementation.
  • Ideas are postulated entities and concepts derived from invention and discovery. You can create an environment to encourage ideas.
  • You can encourage and manage some aspects of innovation but the real trick is finding out which idea is going to be valuable.
  • There is an inverse relationship between the future value of an activity and how certain we are about this.
  • We don't know which ideas will be successful - we have to take a guess and often we will fail in our guesses.
  • Innovation management is a mix of management, encouragement, guess work and embracing failure.

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