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Innovation Process?

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At work a lot of people keep talking about "innovation process". Of course I can be wrong (I usually am), but the way I look at things "innovation process" is an oxymoron.  Process, in the business world, is what you put in place to have predictable results. You have manufacturing processes, development processes, testing processes... It seems obvious to me that if you're after innovation, predictability somehow shouldn't be part of the picture. You can use processes to help structure the exploration, I'll give you that, but I personally see that as a dangerous thing, and here's why: a lot of people (far too many in here) confuse the meanings of two words, "process" and "results". It's not a direct translation, but there's a firm believe that a process is all you need to get results, and if you follow the process well you'll get your results. Now, while this can be true in, say, manufacturing, I don't think it...

French toasting my bread

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OK, this might sound very earthy and "organic", which isn't necessarily the image I 'm trying to project; luckily it's a cholesterol bomb therefore I suppose the overly serious image of the health freak takes an ironic spin :) Truth is by 1 pm I was really hungry, and almost as if the universe was talking to me, I realized I had these 4 ingredients available to me: -some very good and fairly natural (whatever that means) bacon I bought at TJ -a bottle of organic maple/agave syrup blend -Fresh eggs brought by a colleague who has hens and is kind enough to provide -Fresh bread that I made just last night Now mind you, this is a very rare occurrence....I hadn't made french toast in at least a year, and I bet it was probably 6 months ago that I bought bacon last. I was probably inspired by the uncommon quality of the ingredients. It was delicious, I'm sure my body will forgive me. Mahalo Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8