Leading innovation and change

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...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations

Options Thinking for Leading Innovation

Innovation is the lifeblood of successful businesses. From high tech to low tech, from multinational to start-up, innovation has become every firm’s imperative as the pace of change accelerates. The challenges of this imperative increasingly require leaders to manage uncertainty and pursue learning and innovation across the boundaries of firms. A new mindset is required to understand the dynami...

Organizational Innovation and Organizational Change

Three ideas—a complex division of labor, an organic structure, and a highrisk strategy—provoke consistent findings relative to organizational innovation. Of these three ideas, the complexity of the division of labor is most important because it taps the organizational learning, problem-solving, and creativity capacities of the organization. The importance of a complex division of labor has been...

Innovation, Change and Rule-breaking

Competitive dynamics impact a firm’s necessity to adapt its capabilities permanently and to generate innovations continuously. Therefore, management practice claims for continuous change and the generation of substantial innovations. However, to a certain degree, change and innovation are associated with a break of a firm’s existing mode of operation. Routines and underlying rulesystems become ...