Comments on: Bay area book tour: report http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/bay-area-book-tour-report/ Management and Creative Thinking Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:46:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/bay-area-book-tour-report/comment-page-1/#comment-260169 Bill Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:33:09 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/bay-area-book-tour-report/#comment-260169 You need to talk to your buddy Peter Merholz. At DUX2007 he railed against using the term innovation because it is "well-nigh meaningless from overuse". http://www.peterme.com/?p=601 After that talk, however, a listener asked him how he defined innovation and he stated that “Innovation is simply about making things meaningful for people”. http://re-frame.info/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/innovation-simply-means-making-things-valuable-for-people/ Ugh. What a perfectly ambiguous definition. You need to talk to your buddy Peter Merholz. At DUX2007 he railed against using the term innovation because it is “well-nigh meaningless from overuse”. http://www.peterme.com/?p=601

After that talk, however, a listener asked him how he defined innovation and he stated that “Innovation is simply about making things meaningful for people”. http://re-frame.info/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/innovation-simply-means-making-things-valuable-for-people/

Ugh. What a perfectly ambiguous definition.

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