You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca
Understanding is key to adopting the new.
Innovation is the commercialisation of an idea and its successful adoption by consumers.
Consumers who understand how an innovation will improve their experience - what's in it for them - are more likely to adopt it.
Without communication, innovation is just invention. It's thinking that's locked in a lab, or a technical feature that's buried in a spec sheet. A gimmick, even.
But communicated well - to the right people in the right way - innovation is a force for improvement, value and profit.