Thoughts on Think Tanks

Seen around town: Companies discussing or starting "strategic" think tanks (differing from "creative" think tanks... which I still think should be more aptly titled).

Think Tanks are the things you create in politics in order to get a certain point of view across without calling them Lobbyists, and by attempting to back up their opinions with research or facts.

Think Tanks are also the things you create in a business when you have the sneaking suspicion that your business might be threatened.

Think Tanks are not units you want to isolate from your employees or business folks if they're the ones who are supposed to provide innovative ways to make a company better.

A Think Tank in a glass walled tower has a great view of the surrounding landscape, when they should be looking at the cogs and gears of the machine they're tasked with overhauling and turning into something new.

Unless I'm mistaken about the purpose of a "Think Tank" - which maybe in the proper case should be renamed "Think Net" or something that doesn't imply an impenetrable armoured vehicle or an aquarium.

Meh.