by Paul Sloane for Destination Innovation
If you want to stop your organization from trying to develop significant new products or services, here are seven solid arguments you can rely on:
- We are successful. We are growing and making a modest profit. Innovations absorb resources and cost money. Why should we distract ourselves and mess with success?
- Everyone is very busy. All staff are working hard on urgent tasks sorting out today’s problems. They do not have spare bandwidth to experiment with new ideas.
- Innovation is risky. Most radical innovations fail so let’s just keep making our current products and services better.
- We don’t like failure. It would be bad for morale if we launched a new product which flopped and it would be bad for the careers of those who were responsible for failure.