Can standup daily huddles promote radical innovation ?

I was going through an interesting HBR article of Jan 21, that stated that standup meetings are a hindrance to real innovation and instead encourage only small incremental innovation. In other words, Stand up meetings do not encourage radical innovation. In the pressure of having to do something, the participants are forced to think of changes for the existing system rather than any radical or breakthrough innovation that can bring real value innovation in the long run.

“Huddles”, ”stand up meetings” or “scrums” are short, sharp, focused, chaired, team meetings that take place daily and which often revolve around an information center or board, which acts as an agenda. It is formerly part of Rockefeller habits.

Click here for the Jan '21 HBR article

by Dagny Dukach and Andy Wu, Stand up meetings inhibit Innovation (click here..). Of late I have started standup meetings in my area of short duration, say 20-30 minutes with the focus on continuous improvement. The above research also  has come to the conclusion that longer time period meetings do inhibit innovation. For meetings to be really productive, it has to be short.

In industry where old practices have to be continued and where innovative thinking is not very much encouraged as much as systematic and disciplined thinking, the focus is more on continuing existing superior practices than embarking on innovative thoughts and novel practices. Toyota for instance understands that automobiles have a particular shape, size, weight etc, innovative substitutes for transportation is not what Toyota is worried about, rather it is worried on how efficient can existing systems be or wastes can be reduced or the efficiency barriers can be raised. 

Nowhere in Toyota Production System or Lean methodology do you find any steps promoting radical breakthrough innovation, all the while it is incremental innovation. The research mentions that agile ideas are not good at creative projects, it works only on repetitive monotonous products and processes. 

As regards my doing my daily departmental meetings or huddles, I am not looking at bringing innovative rational thinking improving the teaching learning processes, rather I am looking at small improvements that can result in betering the teaching learning processes happening in the classrooms.

George..