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Innovation: The Good and the Bad

 


Is innovation good or bad for your product ? Well, the short answer is , Yes. But the long answer is, It depends upon which characteristic of the product we are targeting for the Innovation. If we are innovating 1. To increase the stability of the Product. 2. To automate the process. 3. To reduce the turnaround time. Then yes, Innovation is good. But if we are innovating to hide the flaws of the primary product then it is very dangerous in the long run for both product and organization culture. Lets understand this with real life examples. We all pay taxes to the government and in return we expect the government to build good infrastructure for us. Be it school, roads  or hospitals. But as we all know incompetent governments fail to do so, in most of the countries, most of the time. Now some greedy genius takes advantage of the incompetence of the government and comes up with the idea of private schools, paid roads and private hospitals. Which most of the people can't afford. If that is not enough the government itself praises such practices for two reasons viz they got undue advantage and they have got a good way to cover their incompetence.  Similarly, we knowingly or unknowingly introduce new auxiliary system to our main system in the name of innovation. It is very crucial for project managers to pay keen attention to what is going in to the system in the name of innovation. If innovations are done to support any of the aforementioned reasons,  then those are most welcomed and should be encouraged. But if the innovations are done to hide the flaws of existing system and innovations turn out to be a parallel system then it's very dangerous for your primary system for two reasons; 1. You will not be able to fix the flaws of primary system. 2. And, Congratulations, you have now another(secondary) system to manage.


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