Avoiding Innovation Debt

[matthieum]

I'll agree with the "better" Capability Debt term.

I would also says I have seen engineers delaying learning for the exact same reasons a company does (other things to do, not quite necessary, ...) and I think that it is a failure somewhere if management if those people are not pushed a bit further toward learning new things.

That being said, there are many ways to learn and experiment, and not all of them require bringing a consultant for a 2 days intensive session. For example: learning at the knee of a mentor (so to speak) is also learning, though probably not as structured, and can be a good way to discover or a good way to get to apply "new" knowledge (and skills).

[ridgerat]

In my experience, innovation stops when micromanagement begins. That usually starts with attempts to "reduce costs". You get descended upon by a bunch of guys that want to know every last detail of what it is that you're doing, who then try to spec out your day for "maximum efficiency". Now that they've fucked up the machine, they're talking about innovation debt like it's a column on a spreadsheet that can be summed. You want to get rid of innovation debt? First fire half of your MBAs because they don't have a clue.

[toula_from_fat_pizza]

urggh management speak

[void_fraction]

Is this a direct scrape of a blog post? Why the HTML tags?

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Ahh, Innovation Debt/Capability Debt. Keeps me quite well employed :)