Change and Innovation in Educational Organisations

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Innovation in entrepreneurial organisations: A platform for contemporary management change and a value creator

Purpose: This article examines the significance of innovation to organisations following strategies of entrepreneurial orientation. In particular, the study looks at the significance innovation adds to the implementation of contemporary management control systems (MCSs) and to improved performance in these organisations. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative analysis was conducted based o...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations

IS Process Innovation Unlearning in Organisations

This paper identifies mechanisms that affected over 200 Information System Process Innovation (ISPI) unlearning decisions in three organisational environments over a period that spanned four decades. The analysis is based on previous unlearning studies. Four distinct generations analysed are early computing (1954-1965); main frame era (1965-1983); office computing era (1983-1991), and distribut...

Stealth Foresight for Innovation: Creating Support for Creative Change in Large Organisations in Australia

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight. This paper describes a variety of 'stealth' techniques to embed foresight methods and models within mainstream business and strategy-development processes as a means to support internal innovation and summarises experience gained in applyin...