Mr. Innovator, "Tear Down These Walls"

The article, "Mr. Innovator, Tear Down These Walls", discusses how the sharing of information across different departments in organizations needs to occur more frequently. Not only would information sharing in organizations help, but the external sharing of information could also greatly further the cause of innovation. The main problem in today's world is that the information that would help combine capabilities across organizations is usually impossible to access. The author mentions an example involving the CIA and another agency within the government. The CIA recently gave valuable data to this other agency,which in turn benefited greatly. According to the author, this type of information sharing needs to happen more often in order to open up new innovation opportunities within organizations. Humans and the organizations in which they are a part of need to open up to the idea of experimentation and change to help innovation flourish.