Saturday, March 29, 2008

Managing Innovation

Forrester as a new report entitled "2008: Innovation Management Services Take Off". It asserts that, in a softening economy, CEOs will place greater emphasis on innovation, and will look to consultants like BAH and McKinsey to help them better manage innovation.

It has some good suggestions, but my initial reaction was that innovation (as an Exploratory activity) probably needs "management" that is a little different that the traditional plan, organize, control, direct, staff.

Finding the right mix of art and science is probably more art than science.

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