Innovation Rhetoric Is at an All-time High: Here's How to Turn Theory Into Practice - The Huffington Post. It's clear that President Obama is banking on innovation, among other things, to fuel economic and competitive growth. He noted this in his State of the Union speech last January and reaffirmed this on election night when he said, "we want our kids to grow up in a country... that lives up to its legacy as the global leader in technology and discovery and innovation -- with all of the good jobs and new businesses that follow. " But some, like John Kao, former Harvard Business School professor and author of the bestseller Innovation Nation, voice concern around our skill levels. John recently told me "innovation rhetoric is at an all time high, but in many companies the practice is at a very rudimentary level.
" "It's hard to do, so companies focus on the easy part -- the hand waving that tells you how to do it. But they're not actually doing it.
Case for innovation. Framework. Ten Red Flags for Innovation: Why It Fails. What are the signs that innovation in a company is set up to fail?
Wouldn’t it be great to have a checklist on this? Unfortunately, innovation is too complicated and company-specific for one standard rule. It is possible, however, to become better at spotting the signs of failure. Here’s a list (in no particular order) of the red flags I look for when I talk with executives and innovation leaders trying to get an understanding of their corporate innovation capabilities. • The lack of an innovation strategy. The 8 Essentials of Innovation.