{"id":1749,"date":"2013-02-16T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2013-05-19T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:32:07","slug":"effective-innovation-needs-better-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/from-our-business-transformation-consultants\/effective-innovation-needs-better-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective innovation needs better understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/businesstransformationmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37\" alt=\"businesstransformationmini\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/businesstransformationmini.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Effective innovation needs better understanding: value from building robust synergies across all parts of portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Extract from HBR Blog Network &#8211;\u00a0Greg Satell: <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"articleBody\">\n<p><em>Albert Einstein is often quoted (perhaps apocryphally) as saying, &#8220;If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would spend 19 days to define it.&#8221; Innovation is a particularly sticky problem because it so often remains undefined. We treat it as a monolith, as if every innovation is the same, which is why so many expensive programs end up going nowhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2012 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved.<br \/>\n<strong>More &#8230;<\/strong> <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/02\/before_you_innovate_ask_the_ri.html\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/02\/before_you_innovate_ask_the_ri.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/02\/before_you_innovate_ask_the_ri.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective innovation needs better understanding: value from building robust synergies across all parts of portfolio. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[40,43,41,42,94,95,35,11,10,12,98,100,70,73,71,72,96,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}