Innovation Labs Are Killing Your Business!

I really hate the idea of an innovation lab. I think if you I think it should be everybody's job in the company to innovate. And when you set up this separate skunk works, the separate innovation lab, and you say, oh, innovation happens here, what you're essentially doing is giving permission to everybody in the company to you don't have to innovate anymore. Just kind of status quo, maintain status quo. And I think this is such a problem for so many reasons, not the least of which is you want everybody thinking, how do we get better? Because innovations are going to occur at the edges. Also, you're removing the responsibility, and I would argue what should be a mandate for innovation away from the people who are closest to customer.