Innovation Framework  This essay/rant has evolved over nearly
nine months, but was finally brought to a close after I re-used
the material in an interview last month. Genesis was one of our
sales executives asking for help in preparing for a customer
meeting to discuss Sun's "innovation framework." I found the
question fascinating, because I never think of having a process
for invention or disruption; it just kind of happens. However,
from a corporate strategy point of view, there are arms lengths
of books published on creating new business models in the name
of spurring innovation. If you can convert innovation into dead
trees, there's a framework in there somewhere.  Our discussion
turned into a cataloging of the mechanisms for identifying
disruption and leveraging the corresponding change in market
size (or market existence -- like that for pre-fab salad),
operating costs, distribution costs, or costs of goods sold.
First and best-known entrant in the art of projecting disruption
is scenario planning, pop