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The Innovation Journey

Check out David's article, "The Innovation Journey" in a recent issue of Projects at Work's Executive Report.  With the recent focus of companies on recovering their innovative edge, David found fascinating the discussion from Harvard's Innovation Symposium and the deep paradoxes he saw considered there.

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A preview:

What is the source of true innovation? What are the processes by which  it occurs on projects? In gathering to discuss the elusive subject, leaders of business and academia wrestled with several contradictions and forged some collective insights. For one, the lean revolution might map a way to cost-saving efficiencies, but innovation of the revenue-producing kind requires a different mindset.

"Harvard Business School professor Rob Austin, program co-chair for the Seattle Innovation Symposium, invited me to attend the National Science Foundation and Harvard University-sponsored event after I'd told him that investigating the source of innovation sounded paradoxical. Science stumbles on paradox, and Rob wanted to show me how his methodology was coping with what I considered to be inevitable  contradictions. Interestingly, the delegates, representing the finest minds studying business innovation today, often found ourselves confronting koans as we considered case studies and scientific enquiries into the source of real business innovation."

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