{"id":176624,"date":"2023-11-24T00:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/why-companies-do-innovation-theater-instead-of-actual-innovation"},"modified":"2023-11-24T00:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T06:22:36","slug":"why-companies-do-innovation-theater-instead-of-actual-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/why-companies-do-innovation-theater-instead-of-actual-innovation","title":{"rendered":"Why Companies Do \u201cInnovation Theater\u201d Instead of Actual Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-companies-do-innovation-theater-instead-of-actual-innovation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As organizations grow, they begin to prioritize process over product. That impedes real innovation. When organizations realize this, they typically respond in three ways: By hiring consultants to do a reorg (that\u2019s \u201corganizational theater\u201d), adopt new processes such as hackathons to spur innovation (that\u2019s \u201cinnovation theater\u201d), or take steps to try to reform their bureaucratic behaviors (that\u2019s \u201cprocess theater\u201d). Instead, what organizations need is an Innovation Doctrine that addresses culture, mindset, and process and guides the organization\u2019s efforts to achieve real innovations.<\/p>\n<p>Page-utils class=\u201d article-utils\u2014vertical hide-for-print\u201d data-js-target=\u201d page-utils\u201d data-id=\u201d tag: blogs.harvardbusiness.org, 2007\/03\/31:999.242633\u201d data-title=\u201d Why Companies Do \u201cInnovation Theater\u201d Instead of Actual Innovation\u201d data-url=\u201d\/2019\/10\/why-companies-do-innovation-theater-instead-of-actual-innovation\u201d data-topic=\u201d Innovation\u201d data-authors=\u201d Steve Blank\u201d data-content-type=\u201d Digital Article\u201d data-content-image=\u201d\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2019\/10\/Oct19_07_-513439309-383x215.jpg\u201d data-summary=\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They put too much focus on process and not enough on product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As organizations grow, they begin to prioritize process over product. That impedes real innovation. When organizations realize this, they typically respond in three ways: By hiring consultants to do a reorg (that\u2019s \u201corganizational theater\u201d), adopt new processes such as hackathons to spur innovation (that\u2019s \u201cinnovation theater\u201d), or take steps to try to reform their bureaucratic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}