Lately I have been listening to this word Innovation all over. I became very curious to find out what is the actual meaning of Innovation.

As per Merriam-Webster Innovation means ‘introduction of something new’. Let me state my perspective. Innovation is an introduction of new product, or new service, or new idea, or new culture shift, and so on. Innovation is how you influence community in a positive way where everyone accepts and starts using that development. Let’s take Apple’s example. Apple has introduced products such as iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc in recent years. Apple has made changes in existing products and wows the world with the Introduction of all these ground-breaking products. Wow-factor features such as touch screen, Facetime, photo slideshow, etc are widely become popular. It is not that no one has thought about these technologies before. Apple did not introduce the ‘screen-touch’ thought nor implemented first. Same way, Apple was not the first one who has introduced the world that you can take photos from your mobile device and photos can be stored on your mobile devices. These technologies were here from years. But the combination of sliding photos; the way it was moving left from right with the touch of your finger was unique. People loved the concept; loved the finger touching a phone display and they can play with the photos. No one has thought about implementing these technologies in mobile device before; now that modification in existing product is Innovation.

I call Innovation when you take an idea from concept to launch and become ubiquitous. That’s when you know that you become successful. Innovation creates new trend, new standards, or new processes which becomes wide in practice by community. What you guys think what Innovation means?