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Google's Innovation
Hussein Al AhmadXPERT ConsultancyApril 16. 2007 
 
Introduction
Evidence of company's performance and innovation
Since 1998, when Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two intelligent doctoral studentshave admirably developed a set of algorithms that sparked an exceptional andmarvelous leap in Web-search delivery. According to
 
Keith H. Hammonds,Googles’ performance became
“… the envy of executives and engineers around the world ... For techno-evangelists, Google is a marvel of Web brilliance ... For Wall Street, it may be the IPO that changes everything (again) ..." [1] 
Throughout its recital, Google’s leading philosophy was and still "
to organize theworld's information and make it universally accessible and useful 
."
[2] 
Inside thecompany they are both passionate about delivering the best search results andobsessive about how that is done. How afforded data can promote servicesenough to save users time of search and download. Google's amazing ability toinnovate can be traced back to proactive culture that creates and promotes theproper environment for innovative thinking.
“But Google is also a case study insavvy management -- a company filled with cutting-edge ideas, rigorousaccountability, and relentless attention to detail ... Here's a search for the growthsecrets of one of the world's most exciting young companies.” [3]
Google understands the capacity of the Web to leverage expertise, andconcentrate on getting feedback and efficient ideas from its users. Googletactfully applies rules that form the logic of the Internet; as they are simple,governed by supply, demand, and democracy.
"We don't show people things that they aren't interested in, because in the long term, that will kill your business." 
says Google Fellow Urs Holzle.
[4]
In Google, they succeeded to nurture a unique understanding of its users thatgrew to a unique loyalty. From the perspective of a consumer, Google is deliveringmany magnificent and free services. Google have become clear about its twomost important assets that enables it to gain user's loyalty; the attention andtrust of its users. Indeed, both were guaranteed through speed delivering of results.Google innovation was mainly dominated by three major drivers;
Acting like a venture capitalist competing and sourcing ideas,
Paying remarkable emphasis on the rigor and discipline of its idea-creationprocess, and,
Creating and fostering a culture where senior management often takes alead role in the innovation process.
[5]
On the one hand, through fostering those drivers of innovation, besides tyingtogether the collective intelligence of their network and figuring out how toharness the distributed intelligence of the huge net, Google managed andcontrolled the revolutionary innovation model. On the other hand, by adoptingproducer-driven innovation that adequately enables fitting user-driven innovation,Google gained and controlled Evolutionary innovation model. Google
 
havesuccessfully attained major changes and competitive services edge because theyare matching revolutionary goals with evolutionary processes and actions.
 
Evidence
of business-concept innovation
Peter Drucker once stated that …
"Every few hundred years throughout westernhistory, a sharp transformation has occurred centered around a technological advance which causes the world to rearrange itself into one which is hardly recognizable compared to the former." 
 [6]Accordingly, one may wonder howGoogle was and still able to manage its growth with the technological changesadopted by its workplace, those happening in a dynamic global market driven byever-changing consumer trends, and overcrowded with initiative competitors;
Managing the change:
Actually, and relating to the energetic nature of the internet services ingeneral which is ever changing and advancing, Google's speed and scale of change increases too. During its distingwished performance, search enginegaint Google has delevered enterprise products, created services and toolsfor the general public and business environment alike, including webapplications, advertising networks and solutions for businesses. On theother hand, Google have overcome the serious shortcomings normallyaccompanied revolutionary change, especially in its sensitive case of itsintegrated services that demand continuous revolution and large leaps inorder to meet its users’ ever-changing trends and needs.At the same time, according to
Tris
tan Louis
"Google does innovate insome spaces but has largely innovated in order to gain entry in marketsthat already existed. As a rule of thumb, they've been very smart at breathing new innovations in those markets.”  
[7]
Creativity and innovation:
Consequently, perhaps mostly, revolutionary innovation should be followedby evolutionary one, in that evolution delivers superior performance overthe long-term. What really seems to be the innovation model adopted byGoogle in its performance is revolutionary in targeting ambitious goals, …goals to be achieved through an evolutionary process and actions.Looking from a user persbective may help in sheding some light onGoogle's flexible, dynamic, and fairly unstructured product developmentprocess. In her session at ‘SXSW Interactive’ atGoogle, Marissa Mayerattributes Google’s success in product development process to
“fosteringemployee-involvement in product definition, involving the role of creativity, and the resulting products and services.” 
[8]
 
Searching and exploiting opportunities;
Google
 
stands as a model for smart innovation in challenging times. Itrecognizes the capacity of the Web to leverage expertise, and concentrateson getting feedback and efficient ideas from its users. Google tactfullyapplies rules that form the logic of the Internet; they sound simple,governed by supply, demand, and democracy. For example, its engineprovides essentially free communication and search services so that noone has a privileged position. Furthermore, Google successfully havefigured out how to exploit the distributed intelligence of the huge net
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