Systematizing innovation

We've tied ourselves up in knots trying to figure out how to foster innovation. There is a growing discourse that argues that so called "open innovation" does not deliver.

Can innovation be systematized?

Methinks it can....

The grand challenges for computing

This is going to be terse. The challenges are:

1. Big knowledge (as distinct from big data)

2. Normative design

3. Event processing

4. Ubiquitous decision support

Big data is useful in supporting all of these, but does is it remain a grand challenge?