The cult of innovation

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Martin Belam posts about Andy Budd‘s presentation. I liked this as I’m wary of the reverence given to innovation. Budd suggests that many people/organisations/things that we think of as very innovative actually aren’t.

I agree. I think stuff emerges incrementally while the blowhards lecture us on the importance of big ideas or the creativity trainer wears us out generating a thousand post it notes about some idealised future.

Hat tip: A tweet from Karl Schneider

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