During the past several months I’ve been hopping around different organizations looking at how they are operating in the product creation sense; large corporations, small businesses, and all sorts of companies in between.  It’s a sad story; we’ve become a corporate society run by spreadsheets and email.  I don’t want to slam Microsoft for this, they're in the same boat wandering around the ocean of innovation hoping to find a gem to latch onto.  Neither has IBM after downsizing again and webifying its processes been able to kick start serious innovation there either.  So what is it th ...