ABSTRACT

Many organizations can easily highlight the problems they may have had in innovating successfully. Talk to colleagues, managers, team members or the receptionist, and they will all have an opinion on what is wrong and what needs to change. They can, with some conviction, identify where any individual organization is under-performing:

Not enough ideas

Too many projects

269Too long a development period

Too short a product life

Not enough management support

Too much interference

Not enough budget

Too few resources

Not enough innovation

Too much innovation.