Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age

AFTERWORD

Building Your Innovation Playbook

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

—BILL GATES

As we have seen throughout this book, innovation is far more complex than most people give it credit for. It is never the result of a single event but arises from a confluence of factors and often involves dozens of people—and sometimes many more than that—to bring an idea from its initial discovery to the point where it can actually make an impact on the world. It does not require a singular skill set or personality type, but in fact usually arises out of combinations of those things. There is no “silver bullet” ...