I don't necessarily disagree, in fact I think Your point is quite salient. I do however think it is somewhat a pity that this sort of 'innovation strategist' is

I don't necessarily disagree, in fact I think Your point is quite salient. I do however think it is somewhat a pity that this sort of 'innovation strategist' is thought of as a domain for executives and directors, because those people are inherently too high up on the ladder to propagate innovations on lower, workflow-related level. As in, such top-down innovation will just miss small, but pilled-up issues. I think we shouldn't assume that there is no place for generalists 'low on the ladder', because with such bellieve we will implicitly ignore the proposals advocated by the 'low level' workers, who are actually the one who have to deal with the workflow obstacles every single day.