People are blogging, vlogging, designing, and innovating. Organizations are creating labs that will invent new products or services. Ambitious designers and consultants are creating new ways of thinking about how to solve problems. Templates are being used that can help everyone solve everyone’s problems. Leaders and employees alike want to make an impact and have their input matter.

When this becomes the status quo, what will the periphery look like? Where will the outliers be and what will they be doing? Will people tire of the design and innovation conversation and simply move on to something else?

As people, businesses, and organizations learn to continually adjust to complex change, then this mode of thinking and acting will become the new normal. Continuing to evolve and not becoming fixed on specific means and outcomes will be the standard.