Do Processes Kill Innovation?
Do Processes Kill Innovation? Innovation is a change in the thought process for doing something or "new stuff that is made useful". Process describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another. When the mankind created Fire, we had no process, which was the first Innovation! Telephone, television, car seat-belt, air-plane, jeans, chewing-gum are just few of the innovative creations which are integral part of our life today. Innovation, by its very definition, violates process. It is almost impossible to change your thinking as long as you are abiding to processes. Process expects following defined set of steps, which guarantees expected outcomes. In a way, process ensures minimal failures or zero risks. Process is outcome of left-hemisphere brain, which drives routine or well rehearsed processing. Innovation is driven by right-hemisphere brain involved in novel si...

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