Five things guaranteed to mess up your innovation process

Over at my HBR Blog, I posted some thoughts on things that companies often do that mess up their ability to innovate.  They include:

1. Innovation is episodic; and on again off again process

2. Resources are held hostage by the incumbent business

3. You try to force-fit innovation into the structure that you have

4. Too little diversity of thought; too little exposure to customers

5. Treating assumptions as though they were facts.

Click on over to the HBR site to read about these issues in more detail.  Your reactions and comments are welcome!