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Ask HN: Outcome-driven innovation - sustainable or disruptive?
Is "outcome driven innovation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-Driven_Innovation) about sustaining innovation or encouraging disruptive innovation? Both? Neither? Discuss!
- fixxer 13y agoI'm leaning towards "both," but I just got lectured by an MBA that the "correct" answer is disruptive.
- mindcrime 13y agoIt's clearly "both", especially when you consider that the line between "sustaining" innovation and "disruptive" innovation is fuzzy and subjective anyway. Hell, whether or not something is innovative at all is pretty subjective. Anyway, even if you start with the outcome in mind: "This factory needs to churn out widgets faster without increasing costs" you could generate innovations among a spectrum from trivial to world-changing, that would support that outcome. I suppose if you make the outcome more specific, you might be able to skew the process to favor one portion of the spectrum over another. It's an interesting question.