INNOVATION — A useful change meets protection

• Situation: A proposed practice appears useful, but existing checks or exchange conditions restrict its use.
• Question: Which restriction protects needed work, and which change could preserve that work while allowing the useful contribution?
• First useful result or blocker: A conditional explanation linking consequences, uptake, compatibility and protective response; a missing distinction remains a specific investigation.
• Mantra: Name whose work changes; recover uptake and its conditions; separate protection from its costs; test the resulting continuation and return to evidence.
• Start with: DTM.1 → DTM.2/.3; use DTM.6 for interaction, DTM.8/.9 for protection, then DTM.4 for persistence.
• Stop or return: An absent capability is not resistance. Return to the subject learning or engineering method; stop the harmful-variant branch when harm is not established.