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Edwin Land (1909 – 1991) was an American inventor who had studied Chemistry. On holiday he took a photograph of his three year old daughter. She asked why she could not see the result straight away and she kept asking why. Land pondered this question and an idea formed in his mind. He went on [...]  In trying to improve quality and looking for improvements we tend to focus our attention on what went wrong. We try to fix problems. A typical management meeting consists of a group of people who are looking at what is not working and trying their hardest to come up with ways to put things right. [...] The CEO of Black and Decker once said, ‘People don’t go into a DIY store because they need one of our drills. They go because they need a hole in the wall.’ Wonderbra in their internal communications to staff say this, ‘We do not sell underwear. We do not sell lingerie. What we sell [...] Taken from this site and the book by Adam Hartung 1. What are the biggest obstacles to innovation in your organization? 2. Why do projects identified in brainstorming or ideation sessions seem to never get off the back burner? 3. Why is there so much funding for legacy work, but so little funding for innovation? [...] |
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