While innovation can occur as individuals and groups wrestle with new problems, innovation can also be reactionary and occur as a response to unplanned changes. The ancient philosopher Heraclatus once said: “there is nothing permanent except change.”
The statement is certainly true today in our high tech world. Advances in computing power, communication technologies, and networking of computers around the world has quickened the pace at which dramatic change can occur across large and diverse groups of electronically connected people. Innovation often arises as a way of coping with, attempting to control, or benefit from changes.
Changes in the use of information technology often provide the impetus for innovation. There might be instances where local conditions encourage a particular innovation. For example, if past historical conditions prevented installation of wired telephone networks because they were too expensive, but now cell phone networks are both more affordable and available; the innovation of cell phone networks might open up new capabilities for areas that previously did not have such technology. As cell phone networks networks become more prevalent, the ways individuals communicate, compute, and exchange information will change and local companies may seek to introduce cell phones with new features that adapt to these changing communications patterns.
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