Ask HN: Outcome-driven innovation - sustainable or disruptive?
Is "outcome driven innovation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-Driven_Innovation) about sustaining innovation or encouraging disruptive innovation? Both? Neither? Discuss!
Anyway, even if you start with the outcome in mind:
"This factory needs to churn out widgets faster without increasing costs"
you could generate innovations among a spectrum from trivial to world-changing, that would support that outcome. I suppose if you make the outcome more specific, you might be able to skew the process to favor one portion of the spectrum over another. It's an interesting question.