The feature is noteworthy mostly for the fact that it rips a sheet out of Facebook's playbook — a role reversal for a company that watched its biggest competitor clone its killer innovation to wild success.
They sought the single defining action, the grand program, the one killer innovation...they would push the flywheel in one direction, then stop, change course, and throw it in a new direction--and then they would stop, change course, and throw it into yet another direction.
Success is a great killer of innovation: there is an ever greater danger that, as Pixar's list of blockbusters lengthens, its "creatives" will take ever fewer risks and its managers will become ever more complacent (as happened, by the way, at Toyota).
As IDEO's Tom Kelley declares on the first page of The Ten Faces of Innovation, "The Devil's Advocate may be the biggest innovation killer in America today".
In her 2006 book, "Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine — and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It," Cynthia Barton Rabe proposes bringing in outsiders whom she calls zero-gravity thinkers to keep creativity and innovation on track.
In short, anchoring is an innovation killer.
One of America's leading authorities on the workplace, the New York City based Schawbel argues that what he calls "people capital" is the real killer app in our innovation economy.
Well, for the same reason that companies like Google oppose legislation like SOPA and PIPA: the intellectual property regulations can be innovation killers.
Killer apps are sought-after innovations because people get addicted to them and make behavioral changes that might otherwise be unthinkable.
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association CEAA)®, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies, and author of the New York Times best-selling books, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses and The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association CEAA)®, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies, and author of the New York Times best-selling books, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses and The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.
