barriers to innovation

this story came through my RSS reader courtesy of the lovely Sarah Hougthon-Jan (the Librarian in Black).
last summer the folks at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre created a team to address innovation within the organization. the results of the analysis were presented in the form of a video, which was shown to managers last month. one of those managers has since uploaded the video to YouTube.
two things struck me after watching this video.
the first – kudos to NASA for investigating this within their organization and actively evaluating how innovation is being blocked.
the second – much of the behaviour in this video directly affects the information-sharing and knowledge management of the organization. No wonder they lost the original moonwalk tapes!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_424YskAfew]

what is your organization, or you as an information professional, doing to increase innovation and remove barriers?

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