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The Key to Successful Innovation? Progress over Product

41 points by rmason 4y ago

patches11 4y ago
While he doesn't call it out these ideas mirror Clayton Christensen's Jobs To Be Done. For people who are interested in this concept that would probably be a good place to start looking, as there are a lot of articles and related resources under that name.
- wakahiu 4y ago
  Found it: https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done It was good read.
hizxy 4y ago
Did they really start out the article with that Henry Ford quote?
- ramesh31 4y ago
  >Did they really start out the article with that Henry Ford quote? Yep. Complete with the meaningless Corporate Memphis stock photo. All the hallmarks of some serious grade A bullshit.
  - mguerville 4y ago
    It’s Inc.com as serious a business publication as People is an investigative poltical news outlet.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  I don't know why this isn't mentioned more often, but Henry Ford was an actual Nazi. Like not just had sympathies or fascist tendencies. He ran an insanely antisemitic newspaper. He sent Hitler birthday presents. Hitler, in return, credits him as an inspiration and a great man. Makes Martin Heidegger look like an antifa by comparison.
  - knob 4y ago
    Do you have source links for this?
    - marginalia_nu 4y ago
      This is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent
  - CharlesW 4y ago
    > I don't know why this isn't mentioned more often, but Henry Ford was an actual Nazi. I thought it was reasonably-common knowledge that Henry Ford was anti-Semitic and did business with the Nazis. Here's a good overview for whoever this might be new information for: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryfo...
  - Frost1x 4y ago
    Revisionist history, omissions of information can be just as powerful as presenting false information, sometimes more powerful because everything else is correct.
- CharlesW 4y ago
  For anyone wondering what this question means: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/
sinuhe69 4y ago
If innovation is not about progress, I don’t know what is else about. Making anything new counts, even nonsense ones? I don’t think so hence I don’t get the point of the article. Focus on continues improvement is one method but not the only one. Disruptive products and services like Xerox or Uber require radical re-thinking, not merely improvement on existing product or service.

41 points by rmason 4y ago

While he doesn't call it out these ideas mirror Clayton Christensen's Jobs To Be Done. For people who are interested in this concept that would probably be a good place to start looking, as there are a lot of articles and related resources under that name.

wakahiu 4y ago
Found it: https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done It was good read.

hizxy 4y ago

Did they really start out the article with that Henry Ford quote?

ramesh31 4y ago
>Did they really start out the article with that Henry Ford quote? Yep. Complete with the meaningless Corporate Memphis stock photo. All the hallmarks of some serious grade A bullshit.
- mguerville 4y ago
  It’s Inc.com as serious a business publication as People is an investigative poltical news outlet.
marginalia_nu 4y ago
I don't know why this isn't mentioned more often, but Henry Ford was an actual Nazi. Like not just had sympathies or fascist tendencies. He ran an insanely antisemitic newspaper. He sent Hitler birthday presents. Hitler, in return, credits him as an inspiration and a great man. Makes Martin Heidegger look like an antifa by comparison.
- knob 4y ago
  Do you have source links for this?
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    This is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent
- CharlesW 4y ago
  > I don't know why this isn't mentioned more often, but Henry Ford was an actual Nazi. I thought it was reasonably-common knowledge that Henry Ford was anti-Semitic and did business with the Nazis. Here's a good overview for whoever this might be new information for: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryfo...
- Frost1x 4y ago
  Revisionist history, omissions of information can be just as powerful as presenting false information, sometimes more powerful because everything else is correct.
CharlesW 4y ago
For anyone wondering what this question means: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/

sinuhe69 4y ago

If innovation is not about progress, I don’t know what is else about. Making anything new counts, even nonsense ones? I don’t think so hence I don’t get the point of the article. Focus on continues improvement is one method but not the only one. Disruptive products and services like Xerox or Uber require radical re-thinking, not merely improvement on existing product or service.