Thesolutionto reconciling disciplined execution and innovation lies in giving greater freedom to those people doing the work to exercise their talents and creativity, but doing so within short cycles so that those doing the work can themselves see whether they are making progress or not.
Von Hippel has shown that if you put the means to create solutions in the hands of the people who will use thesolution, a tremendous amount of innovation results.
We were fortunate to be awarded an innovation subsidy from the Belgian Flemish Government, which enabled us to keep refining our solution and keep hiring people.