Three recent articles by innovation experts suggest that the term has been so misused and abused by the innovation-obsessed that it has lost all meaning. According to Leslie Kwoh of The Wall Street Journal, along with Bill Taylor and Scott Anthony of the Harvard Business Review, we should chuck the word entirely and essentially start from scratch.
Let’s assume that two of their assumptions are true. 1. The business world is (still) obsessed with the concept of “innovation.” 2. This concept is confusing to many of those same people, and therefore the word is usually misused. But what about number three? Has the word innovation lost all its meaning, and should it be abandoned altogether? I would maintain that regardless of how fuzzy the word and the concept have become, the fact remains that innovation is still a very real force in the world, and one that is accessible to anyone who wants to do genuinely innovative work.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Innovation is Dead. Long Live Innovation! - Forbes
