{"id":100,"date":"2007-02-19T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-02-23T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T23:16:38","slug":"an-innovation-hype-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"An innovation hype cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nitibhan.com\/jugaad\/2007\/02\/the_self_inflic.html\">Over at Jugaad<\/a> Niti Bhan picks up on the BusinessWeek discussion and posts an insightful look at the backlash against innovation. <\/p>\n<p>She makes the connection between the Gartner Hype Cycle  &#8211; which, in itself, is very insightful &#8211; and the trend for media reporting about innovation.  Niti makes the point that after all the hype about innovation, it is now falling into the &#8216;trough of disillusionment*&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She adds that now &#8211; in theory &#8211; innovation should start moving onto the Plateau of Productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended reading.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside Niti also has a lovely quote about innovation cultures and the value of the &#8216;skunkworks&#8217; type approach.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kanter also advises managers to make sure there are no culture clashes between internal teams working on a company&#8217;s traditional products and its new, innovative experiments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* I happen to like the Hype Cycle.  Whether you love it or hate it, you just have to give credit to the creators for the names they use.  I mean look at the terms : the &#8216;Trough of Disillusionment&#8221; almost needs a Jaws-like soundtrack to go with it.  You could also use it in the next Lord of the Rings movie :  &#8220;I&#8217;m buggered if I&#8217;m coming with you Frodo &#8211; it&#8217;s gonna take more than a magic ring to get me to cross the Trough of Disillusionment&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artfiles.art.com\/images\/-\/Albert-Bierstadt\/Storm-in-the-Rocky-Mountains-Print-C10091317.jpeg\" alt=\"Here lies the Trough of Disillusionment\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Jugaad Niti Bhan picks up on the BusinessWeek discussion and posts an insightful look at the backlash against innovation. She makes the connection between the Gartner Hype Cycle &#8211; which, in itself, is very insightful &#8211; and the trend for media reporting about innovation. Niti makes the point that after all the hype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-technology","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}