I had to laugh when I read this article in Business Week entitle "Imagining Apple’s Future." Some brilliant author asked four innovators (how do you get that title?) to think about what Apple’s next product might be. I read it. Then I laughed. What has innovation come to? At Owen we actually had classes where you didn’t imagine what you might innovate, you actually innovated something. Saw that end result.
What was Business Week thinking? Anyone can dream up some coolio ideas but there are so many factors that could keep it from suceeding–money, technology, the market–that these pontifications were boring. And, kind of simple for such a magazine.
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Nice observation. Innovation is very, very rare. Probably because it requires both a lot of focused hard work AND the convergence of complementary products/services/tech AND a lot of good luck. The media like to focus on cult of personality (four “innovators”???), but most honest people who’ve been involved with a successful innovation are quick to remind you that it’s not a neat/tidy/controllable process.
Nice observation. Innovation is very, very rare. Probably because it requires both a lot of focused hard work AND the convergence of complementary products/services/tech AND a lot of good luck. The media like to focus on cult of personality (four “innovators”???), but most honest people who’ve been involved with a successful innovation are quick to remind you that it’s not a neat/tidy/controllable process.