Air-cover: Innovation's secret ingredient

Bill Fischer has written about how innovation can flourish in organizations (see his latest book The Idea Hunter (co-authored with Andy Boynton),Jossey-Bass, 2011). You need a great team that can work freely. That is a necessity. But, what he finds as more important is to protect this team from the day to day problems and the usual business related stress and strains. Someone with enough authority, within the organization, can do this. Such a person would need to be visionary enough to understand what's needed, what's possible, etc. and have faith in the team. Usually, such person will be a hard nosed businessman, but needs to have this head in the cloud kind of imaginative bent of the mind too. Mr. Fischer provides many examples of this collaboration over time. Steve Jobs succeeded, repeatedly, in nurturing such innovation. May be, this is a necessary combination to get innovative products/ services generated in an organization!


Air-cover: Innovation's secret ingredient - Forbes: