[Quote] All of the brilliant ideas in the world
DVF, empathy, traction, and all the rest only matter if you can convince stakeholders that they matter.
"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!
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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