The company I work for drives me nuts with this. We do tons of research and innovation on the software side of things. But because hardware takes longer we almo

The company I work for drives me nuts with this. We do tons of research and innovation on the software side of things. But because hardware takes longer we almost never do any research or try out anything risky because we are always the critical path on the schedule. The funny thing is, whenever we have hackathons, hardware teams always end up winning because someone has been sitting on a cool idea that they would never have the time to investigate during their normal job duties. We have definitely lost a couple of our good people because of this attitude.