Following through
This is the shell for a future article to talk about the confusion of “production think” versus innovation. The discipline of developing ‘for production’ may be a hindrance in establishing innovation teams to come up with new ways of doing things.
We want to touch on marketing, driving demand, turning the innovation into a production thing.
October 8th, 2007 at 1:51 am
[...] order to help people to get away from ‘production think‘, I’ve been struggling with trying to precisely define a Proof of Concept. It’s [...]
October 8th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Another threat to innovation is pre-empting the outcomes. My first PoC was derailed for a while when funding was announced before the PoC had even concluded.
All of a sudden people started to evaluate ideas in terms of real world constraints ie ‘production think’; this was difficult to halt and return to free thinking.