Innovation is hard. Just look at Research in Motion (the makers of BlackBerry) or Nokia who have been praised as the leaders and innovators in their field and who are struggling to come up with products and services to compete in the changing mobile landscape.
I stumbled upon this infographic, which does not contain any concrete information but instead gives an artistic, visual impression of the creative process. There are two ways to react to this graphic and I think they can teach us a lot how we see innovation.

Reaction 1: Embracing the chaos for more creativity
If your first reaction to this image is to agree with this visual representation of the creative process and that it is a complex, unstructured process that may or may not lead to innovations you probably...





