In an industry defined by constant evolution, "innovation" is a word I hear every single day. It gets attached to the latest platform, the newest tool, the freshest trend. But after years working at the sharp end of broadcast and media technology, I've come to believe that real innovation has very little to do with chasing what's new. It is about improving the way we work. It is about revisiting the requirements and the ways to deliver. Innovation is a re-iterative process, n

When I started in operations, connecting different technologies together was genuinely hard. It required close collaboration between high quality engineering teams, vendors and broadcasters, and it took time to get right. Because of that complexity, the people making decisions about who to work with and what to outsource were almost always the technical leadership the CTOs, the heads of engineering. They were the gatekeepers, and quite rightly so. The technology demanded it.

When I started in operations, connecting different technologies together was genuinely hard. It required close collaboration between high quality engineering teams, vendors and broadcasters, and it took time to get right. Because of that complexity, the people making decisions about who to work with and what to outsource were almost always the technical leadership the CTOs, the heads of engineering. They were the gatekeepers, and quite rightly so. The technology demanded it.

There is a lot of conversation in our industry right now about transformation new platforms, new workflows, new commercial models. And rightly so. Things are changing quickly. But in the middle of all that change, I keep coming back to something that hasn't changed at all - audiences still expect content to arrive in the right place, at the right time, at the right quality. They always will.