The WSJ says the term "innovation" has begun to lose meaning. On many weekends, I would agree and cite my post Double Talk accounting - lots of talk and not enough results showing innovation at at some companies.
But this weekend, I got many kudos about my GigaOm column Traversing the Valley - which looks at plenty of unheralded innovation in Corporate America and in Silicon Valley.
And I also tallied my monthly posts on New Florence. Through May it is up to 260 posts for the year. That's more than all the posts in the first 2 full years of the blog. Honestly, that blog feels like an endless field of sunflowers you would see if you have driven through Tuscany
So, if anything, we need to be calling out the companies which brag about innovation while still largely selling old products and sticking to older business models and older channels and partners.
But let's not malign the term and say it is not happening at all. There's Tuscany and then there are plenty of barren deserts and tundra.
