Gary Hamel wrote a great post on how not to start innovation initiatives. The article is great fun to read but also very true. We see organizations behave in this way regularly.

Hamel and colleagues have researched over 100 cases of innovation and have found they all have in common that “successful innovators have ways of seeing the world that throw new opportunities into sharp relief. They have developed, usually by accident, a set of perceptual “lenses” that allow them to pierce the fog of “what is” in order to see the promise of “what could be.”