Jared's article Innovation is the new black struck home for me. Not just because he quotes IBMer Eric Tsou from the @issue conference, but because "innovation" has quickly permeated many things within IBM.
For me personally, I have worked on The Innovation Value and won an "Innovation clients can feel" award for a different project. If you have been watching ibm.com, you will notice a lot on innovation. I cannot count all of the messages tied to innovation any more.
I'd say "Innovation is the new blue". (^:
My first glimpse into the business world's obsession with innovation was last year's International Workshop on Accelerated Radical Innovation. There I started to pick up the innovation lingo and, like Jared, saw how important experience design was going to be. None of this user experience work is new, it is just becoming a lot more valuable. If this is because CEO's are obsessed with innovation, then I am quite happy to share my background and experience to help them innovate.
Innovation: "It's the user experience, stupid".
Comments
Patrick Whitney on innovation
And just in, from Business Week - Desgin visionary about Patrick Whitney (IIT Institute of Design, UXnet advisor) and how
business + design = innovation.IWARI
I just found this report about IWARI:
Also, the workshop led to the formation of the International Accelerated Radical Innovation Institute.