{"id":307,"date":"2011-01-17T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=307"},"modified":"2011-01-17T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T06:56:33","slug":"the-number-one-key-to-innovation-scarcity-uri-neren-the-conversation-harvard-business-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the HBR blog comes this link to a fascinating study on innovation.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always held that resource constraints help &#8211; not hinder &#8211; innovation, but this study goes way beyond a mere hunch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>How should an enterprise go about inventing something novel and useful? Is there a structured thinking process that reliably produces results? Believe it or not, at least 162 different answers have been proposed to that question.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So when it happens that these rigorously researched methodologies independently converge on a common factor \u2014 something they all find valuable in an innovation process \u2014 it&#8217;s pretty safe to assume that it really is important. Having done that kind of meta-analysis, we can tell you the one element that comes through loudest and clearest: <strong>the value of scarcity as a spur to creative problem-solving.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2011\/01\/the_number_one_key_to_innovati.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness%2Fcs+%28Conversation+Starter+on+HBR.org%29#comments\">The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity &#8211; Uri Neren &#8211; The Conversation &#8211; Harvard Business Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the HBR blog comes this link to a fascinating study on innovation.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always held that resource constraints help &#8211; not hinder &#8211; innovation, but this study goes way beyond a mere hunch: How should an enterprise go about inventing something novel and useful? Is there a structured thinking process that reliably produces results? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}