Ford vs. Cisco: Two ways to approach innovation

Last week, I talked about how Apple could likely learn from Ford’s approach to innovation, which favors promoting experimentation and shifts focus from blame for failure to encouraging and rewarding experimentation. This week I attended the opening of Cisco’s new Innovation Center in Toronto [Disclosure: Cisco is a client of the author] and it struck me that the differences between Ford’s Research and Innovation Center in Silicon Valley and Cisco’s efforts were very diffe