The word "innovation" comes from the latin terms novus „new“ and innovatio „something new“.

Recently I’ve started a wild discussion about innovation and the climate it needs to be innovative. Unfortunately I did not only make friends with my opinion. And to be honest, calling someone a nerd after had he told me about his new top-down strategy for innovation really forced some king of trouble.

TOP-DOWN!! Forcing innovation and clever ideas by directive? You guys will now be innovative … You got me?!

Anyway, even I have a very strong opinion about that and I’m feeling sure about this is a suboptimal wrong way for sure, it doesn’t matter and also does not have to be my concern anyway. And thanks god problems could get solved later on.

Later on I was telling my brother about this discussion. And today now – this nasty guy-  he did invite me to a coffee, and with a big smile, as first thing he did, he was handing me over a poster about innovation …. 

Damned! Brother you know for sure …. Revenge will be terrible!