This is an interesting article by Tim Kastelle on the problem ideas face in old, big, fat organizations: they just don’t spread!
The introduction:
“The fundamental point that I was trying to make in yesterday’s post is that most of us are facing the same innovation problem: it is extremely difficult to get new ideas to spread within most organisations. We are a bit deceived because we hear about innovation at Google, and 3M, and Apple, and we think that all of our organisations should work like that. Unfortunately, most of them don’t. My examples yesterday came from education, and I know that a lot of people in the public sector think that innovation is unusually hard in their organisations. But nearly everyone resists change.”
Read the full article at timkastelle.org:
http://timkastelle.org/blog/2010/02/new-ideas-in-old-systems/
