# Innovation is bad for business: 3 more ‘I’ words to compare innovation to

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The piece uses infection, ignorance, and imitation as metaphors to challenge the treatment of innovation as an unqualified organisational good.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 16 October 2018

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 16 October 2018
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: innovation, metaphor, organisations, business.

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