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Where's the beef in innovations?

The problem with the report from the Harvard Business Review [How Thomson Reuters is creating a culture of innovation] is that nowhere does it give even one example of the aforesaid innovations - either because the excerpt left it out or because Cary Burch and Ron Ashkenas left it out, or because the Harvard Business Review left out asking them to put it in.

A glance at the full article shows that it's not the fault of the excerpt, but of the latter two. All you get reading it is a lot of those ghastly corporate jargon words such as champions as in "innovation champions" (it doesn't say if they won gold, silver or bronze), networks as in "innovation networks," enterprise and workshop - together no less - as in "enterprise innovation workshops." And that's before getting into those other ill-begotten bastards of the English language, such as "ideation" and "rapid prototyping."

Where's the beef, Cary? ■