Innovators, Break Down Those Silos
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How many capabilities are locked away, underleveraged in organizational or industry silos? Who hasn't suffered a severe case of innovator's envy, coveting access to information and capabilities that seem so tantalizingly close?
Most innovation doesn't require inventing anything new. It is often just a matter of combining and recombining capabilities across disciplines, organizations, and sectors. The problem is that those capabilities are often impossible to access. The biggest opportunities in health care, education, security, and energy lie in the gray areas between silos. We need to think and act more horizontally.