Can technology improve business innovation?

Useful innovation is one of the most meaningful outputs of human creativity. Today, technological aids are increasingly employed to improve and amplify the innovation process. Now new social methods, especially crowdsourcing, have fundamentally altered how innovation is achieved and even who does it.

Few would argue that software has crawled into virtually every nook and cranny of modern life, leading to more than a few prognostigators to claim that it’s now eating the world.