It's always about new connections

On his blog, Innovation Leadership Network, Tim Kastelle talks about how innovation is less about the massification and aggregation of new ideas and more about new connections between existing ideas. Every innovation features new connections. Think bad glue + paper (Post-Its), gravity + tubes (indoor toilets), phone + printer (fax), wind + farms (wind farms), electricity + racks (toasters) and on it goes. And the more improbable the connections, the more amazing the breakthrough.

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Mar 20, 2010

Tim Kastelle said...

Thanks for the mention Jack! That's a great set of examples, and I think your final summary is definitely true.

Mar 21, 2010

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