Comments on: In Search of Failure – Designing for Failure?

By: Let’s Go! Failing Toward Innovation

Let’s Go! Failing Toward Innovation — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:22:14 +0000

[...] innovation management scholar, Bengt-Arne Vedin takes the discussion of failure strategy beyond its baselines of acceptance and lesson learning and advances it to a point where failure is [...]

By: Bengt-Arne Vedin

Bengt-Arne Vedin — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:04:39 +0000

To take your comment and run with it: communities of practice would allow for the building upon steadily improving ‘incremental failures’ = ‘incremental successes’.

By: Patricia McGrath

Patricia McGrath — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:40:47 +0000

I am new to the group. I find your thinking to be very interesting.

Some thoughts that I’d like to share: Learn from what didn’t work, what was attempted/intended. Ultimately leveraging the impact of change for the next opportunity.
Example:
*BPR projects to address “broken” or “repetative” business processes, lead to massive re-engineering initative, the selection & implementation of many ERP packages and sucess of many software vendors/solutions (SAP, PSFT, ORACLE, etc.).
*The implementation of these products and services were the basis for the elimination of roles, consolidation of responsibilities, producing many eventual failures to truly improve business performance internally and externally.

This then, becomes the next opportunity to innovate by creating, yet another set of services and products aimed at creating a functioning set of processes and an organization that is customer aligned.

By: Bengt-Arne Vedin

Bengt-Arne Vedin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:44:57 +0000

Actually, in a version of this piece to appear in a book (forthcoming), I have adopted yours and Saeid’s the creative dance as a possible moniker.

By: Ashkan

Ashkan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:27:21 +0000

Interesting reflections, as always with Prof.Vedin. Maybe Serendipity is the closest word to faliure, with a positive connotation :)