In this series, Ron Price examines the 12 enemies of successful innovation. Number 10 is avoiding ambiguity.
Episode Transcript:
Enemy number 10 of successful innovation is avoiding ambiguity. And this is a tough one because as we’re innovating, we’re developing new ideas into new solutions, into new innovations, we want data. But sometimes the data’s not going to help us. Sometimes the data only partially helps us. Sometimes we get to the edge of the data because innovations are not data-driven, they are value-driven. Sometimes your idea can’t be quantified right away, especially when the data is qualitative, not quantitative. Now, data is important in decision-making, but it is not always the driver of innovation. As a leader, we need to embrace the process of discovering the data and then leave room for ambiguity along the way and not to let our impatience for revenue statistics get in the way. So, we have to be careful not to avoid the ambiguity that is often inherent in successful innovation. This is how we overcome enemy number 10 of successful innovation.
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