Avoid Innovation Inbreeding

Friday, April 6, 2012
Are you sick of hearing about innovation? Feeling the pressure to come up with the "next big thing" for your organization, or the "magic bullet" that will balance your books? Perhaps you're feeling fatigue because your organization is suffering from innovation inbreeding...

Last week, I came across this concept in an article in the Harvard Business Review – Stop Inbreeding Innovation. "Innovation inbreeding," writes author Scott Anthony, "is when innovation efforts are consistently led by the same group of people who have lived their life within the company. Even worse is when innovation efforts are contained . . .