innovation

Doing the same old pointless thing a different way. Alternatively, creating something brilliant in such a way that it takes twice as long and costs three times as much as the old fashioned way of doing the same thing.

Bob: Hey, let's make a wheel!
Bub: Well, we'll have to draft a budget submission, then set up a steering party, develop a business plan then publish a prospectus. I'm guessing we'll need a couple of million plus a three year window for the R & D alone ...

by Disgruntled Former Employee March 17, 2005

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innovation

A marketing ploy used by organizations that have exhausted all other plausable excuses for introducing ill-conceived products, policies, practices and/or services that will ultimately prove to be counterproductive.

CEO: OMG, this place is a real drag!
Boy Wonder: Gosh, CEO ... let's introduce an innovation!
CEO: Shit! Why didn't I think of that? Where should we start?
Boy Wonder: Gee, I guess we should do a Google search ...

by Aunty Yo's Sister March 17, 2005

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innovate

To steal someone's idea, change it a tiny bit, and release it as your own.

Microsoft likes to innovate.

by JonoBaker February 29, 2008

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innovator

someone who isnt quite a hipster but is always onestep of the game.

castro: why is that guy Wearing a visor beanie backwards? cody: Cause he’s an innovator

by RID3R September 5, 2011

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innovative

something different and had haven't done before in a particular group

1st frnd:> hey dude , wats up now
2nd frnd:> i m gonna to do something innovative

by Dilip Panwar July 31, 2006

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innovation

A word used by game developers when they are going to fuck up a game.

Dev: We're going to make the game more innovative and fun!

*later on after release*
Gamer: Dude! WTF THIS GAME SUCKS!

Innovation...how it fails in most new games.

by bluemuffin May 29, 2009

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