Something to think about.
If it impedes your ability to do business, to provide products and/or services to your customers, or makes it hard for customers to pay you for goods and/or services… then it probably isn’t innovation.
Yes, in one sense innovation is being new or different, but it isn’t actually innovative unless it provides you with new opportunities or allows you to do better with the opportunities you already have.
It’s so easy to get distracted by the new, the different, and the shiny that it’s all too easy to forget that you now have to work twice as hard to get things done as you used to.
Sure, new processes can take time to settle. New technologies can take time to learn. And that’s only worth it if it is genuinely going to bring you the benefits.
Software, hardware, tools, procedures. If they’re not contributing to your business, replace them with something that will.
I remember saying things like this the last three or four times my company’s IT department rolled out a new MS Office update… Without warning… Without training… And much to the distaste to everyone. (=_=)
It was typically followed by weeks worth of “downgrading” people so that they could repair documents with compatibility problems and support call after support call after support call of “How do I do THIS now?” (O.o)
My most annoying phrases at times like that is, “Where is the value-add in this?” It’s most funny, because, our vice president believes in the term. When someone asks the question, the pending responder usually breaks into a cold sweat. =^-^=
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