I have a friend that is looking at starting up a company and she asked me to go over her idea to see if it was innovative enough? Add that to all the hype that I am hearing recently about innovation this and innovation that, I have decided to write a few posts on the subject by way of clarifying some points that are bugging me and where better to start than with: What is innovation?
Above all else innovation is a process which has, in addition to several phases, a start and a finish and should be managed using some type of process management methodology; whatever works best for you. Innovation for me, from a business stand point, must start with a necessity, albeit a problem and finish in a commercial success anything else for me is something like “it” but just not “it”. Innovation is not however a great idea, something new, something original, something ground breaking, something that makes us different… That could be part of it but only part.
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Author: Darragh Kelly
