Innovation = ?
Innovation is an amazing big buzzword/hype these days. Some of it is definitely valid since it focuses organizations towards change and development in a world of chaos - some of it is really bad since people keep creating industrial ways of doing innovation - of which most of them have no empirical evidence of working in the real world - but all the consultants needs to have them. (Don’t get me started on how the lack of creation stories distorts our view on how things start/happen). So my cheap shot at a definition of innovation which definitely has been made on the shoulders of giants and probably really isn’t new at all.
Innovation = People creating something that creates new meaning
People because it ultimately isn’t about processes, diversity or design, but about human individuals with empathy, cognition, ideas, values, goals, need for recognition, backgrounds and relationships. Creation because it isn’t about academic design processes or industrial product development, but about the type of creation everyone has in us from day one we enter this world, we can all create - we can all innovate. Meaning because value is to vague and minor, meaning because it’s new meaning in terms of how look at ourselves and how we perceive the world around us.