collaboration
Why Collaborating Outside Your Bubble Fosters Innovation
Asking the right question — and expanding the circle of collaboration — can often lead to real innovation.
Think how the 20th century would have been different if Thomas Edison had set out to brighten dimly lit homes and illuminate industry by improving a valve on a gas lighting fixture. The conventional solutions of the time for brighter, better and safer lighting were in a “bubble” of information, technology and expertise all centered on the delivery of gas.