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# Here Are The 7 Reasons Why Innovations Fail
- URL: https://www.philmckinney.com/innovation-failures/
- Published: 2007-05-01T07:44:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-01T14:09:47.000Z
- Author: Phil McKinney
- Tags: Past Shows, Studio Sessions, Albert Einstein, fail, failure, innovation failure, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-03-26 05:08

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### Segment 1: Innovation Failure

What are the reasons that innovation efforts fail?

1. Innovation for awards and recognition
2. Meaningless innovation
3. Non-user driven innovation
4. Innovation as long as its green
5. Innovation by committee
6. Lightspeed innovation
7. Copycat innovations

### Segment 2: Killer Question Of The Week

- What part of your service offering is under appreciated? Why?
- What part of your service offering is over appreciated? Why?
- What assumptions does your customer have about your service offering? Why?
- How many ideas can you come up with for each assumption if you wanted the opposite to be true?

### Segment 3: Closing Thought

> *“It is high time that the idea of success be replaced by the idea of service”*

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