What is Innovation Tsunami?

The announcement of the new processor - called Barcelona (while it was being developed) - the ultra new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor - and its comparison with the Intel processors - have led the AMD CEO to coin the word - Innovation Tsunami. I am not so much fascinated with the latest processor as by the latest articulation of Innovation pace as the unleashing of Innovation tsunami - well - if we look at the globalisation and increasing complexity has churned out innovation at a pace that has been unprecedented - in fact the futurists are all gung-ho about what we will become to what way we will generate wealth - with all the new ways that we are creating there also are emerging new ways in which we are destroying - well - we dont know which tsunami will be winner - the innovation tsunami which creates more value in the Globalizing Innovation Complexity (GIX) Bang world - or the Innovation Tsunami that destroys value - Hope it is the value creators who will win!

Embrace Failure - the Path to Innovation

Embracing Failure a theme closer to my thinking as of now - I have been calling it intensity to fail comes to the forefront of the Innovation debate - if there is something like that by the way!

The interview above highlights the need to empower employees to drive change in the organization. Change, Learning and Innovation are linked to each other to a great extent - and I believe the intensity to fail - which means how quick and big is the failuire - will determine the success of the organization. So if you want to innovate or drive change or create a learning organization - be ready to fail with maximum intensity - meaning fastest and biggest failures will lead to biggest success! This is too contrarian a view to our minds programmed to incremental success - well get reprogrammed quickly!!