An Assessment Methodology for Evaluating Communications Innovations

There has never been any shortage of ideas in the communications industry, only a problem of which to choose and which to reject. Building upon the thesis that to the extent a current innovation replicates the effects that past great innovations had on their host societies, an assessment tool is developed to aid in the design and decision processes. Three characterizations and two constraints are developed from an analysis of past great innovations that form the basis of the analysis technique. It has been found that this methodology can provoke new insights into old situations.