Google's 16 Principles of Innovation

• Hire the Best
• Ideas Come From Anywhere
• Practice Sharing & Openness Fully
• Morph, Don???t Kill, Ideas
• Users Come First, Not Money
• Data Drives Decisions
• Iterate a Product (don???t use a Project Plan)
• Make Your Vision Simple, Understandable and Share It With All
• 20% Time
• Think BIG
• Bet on a Trend, or Fall Victim to It
• Accept a Smaller Piece of a Larger Pie
• Feed the Winners, Starve the Losers
• Avoid Hippos (highest paid person???s opinion)
• Never Surrender to Lawyers, Auditors, or Bureaucrats
• Reward Innovation
• Learn How to Learn (a 17th extra principle)

Watch a video about Technical innovation at Google