Failure of imagination

It's very difficult to nail down the starting point of the innovation process -- much harder than finding the source of the Nile. You often see the process described simply as ideas leading to value (profit), but this doesn't tell us much about the origins of these ideas. Perhaps this is why the idea end of the innovation process is called the Fuzzy Front End -- translated as, "something we don't know much about." One thing's for certain, national governments need to encourage imagination if they expect their nation to be truly innovative.

Here's a very imaginative, and fun, presentation I found on Slideshare: