> Don’t bother being innovative or doing something that wasn’t in the official plan set six months ago, because even if you did, your managers will not line up

> Don’t bother being innovative or doing something that wasn’t in the official plan set six months ago, because even if you did, your managers will not line up the associated dev, PM, Pgm, UX, docs, legal, and marketing resources to make it launchable anyway. A six month planning cycle does seem slow, but this use of "being innovative" appears to mean "stealing resources from some other project".