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Why is Innovation Hard?

Gary Hamel has a good post on the Business Innovation Insider blog here.
The original WSJ commentary is here.
Do these ring true for your experience in libraries?
“As Hamel explains, there are four important “evolutionary risk factors” that innovators must confront:
(1) A narrow or orthodox business definition that limits the scope of innovation;
(2) A hierarchical organization that over-weights the views of those who have a stake in perpetuating the status quo;
(3) A tendency to overinvest in “what is” at the expense of “what could be”;
(4) Creeping mediocrity.”
Stephen

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Posted on: May 3, 2006, 8:00 am Category: Uncategorized

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