{"id":221,"date":"2008-11-26T04:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-11-26T04:17:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T04:17:19","slug":"what-the-hell-is-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/what-the-hell-is-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"What the hell is Innovation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/aussiegold\/1190791294\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sign - Right this way, new Head of Innovation\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1413\/1190791294_d942eb25ae_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"From AussieGold on Flickr\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From AussieGold on Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know why I&#8217;ve given it a capital. Innovation (had to there), is meaningless. It has been since marketeers started using it to describe anything that may be vaguely new or interesting, or &#8216;thinking&#8217; that was vaguely new or interesting, or perhaps, just interesting. It could be thinking about the future, or thinking about the future in a new way. Or EVEN thinking about our thinking, on the thinking for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. WTF? What is Innovation, that Research &amp; Development isn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m genuinely interested in if anyone else shares my growing hate of the word. Please tell me, what&#8217;s the difference? Why can&#8217;t we be Research &amp; Development?<\/p>\n<p>Answers on a post-card please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t even know why I&#8217;ve given it a capital. Innovation (had to there), is meaningless. It has been since marketeers started using it to describe anything that may be vaguely new or interesting, or &#8216;thinking&#8217; that was vaguely new or interesting, or perhaps, just interesting. It could be thinking about the future, or thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[66,86],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-crap","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}