"All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them."
– Brandon Sanderson. American author
The point for innovation
Innovation is not an intellectual exercise, nor a process. It's an outcome.
And you only achieve that outcome if anyone bothers to listen to you, in other words if you are credible!
Source
Further reading
Sanderson, B. (2007). The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn. Macmillan. http://books.google.com/books?id=-EZHf7-jWAQC&hl=&source=gbs_api