1.1. Mainstream - innovation is controllable which allows it to be rational, predictable and systemic
1.2. Alternative - innovation is emergent from daily human live. It can emerge from common, everyday work conversations.
1.3. Innovation is not a linear process nor is it controllable
2. Change is Inevitable
2.1. Change is not anything new, its been continual since the Roman roads, Portuguese explorers and the Industrial Revolution (Meadows, pp 6)
2.2. The main difference today is the shift from the energy/matter economy to the knowledge/information economy
2.3. The illusion of loss of control as organizations try to control and measure knowledge
2.4. There is a profound need for human centered approaches. Innovation comes from our collective human experience of living and being together.
3. Reference
3.1. Meadows, D. H. (2008). Thinking in systems: A primer (D. Wright, Ed.). Earthscan.
4. Economic & Policy Role
4.1. Economic Driver; innovation is the major goal of economic activity
4.2. The key for sustaining a competitive advantage in the global markets
4.3. The European Act 1986 cultivates conditions for competitiveness by encouraging research, innovation and the development of new technologies. (Meadows, 2008, Chapter 1)
5. Science & Technology Link
5.1. Innovations is often linked to science and technology as engines of progress.
5.2. Survival strategy is the ability to adapt to turbulance in the market and organization.
5.3. From the organizational view, innovation is treated as a rountine function like marketing/finance
6. Perspective on Innovation
6.1. Character of organization, innovativeness seen as a cultural trait
6.2. Economic progress is applying and distributing the advances of science
6.3. Marketing progress is where an organization can meet consumers needs and provide them what they are missing.
6.4. Strategic competition differentiates organizations in the high tech industries
6.5. Routine function is the standard operating procedures
6.6. Driver of economic development
6.7. Industry barriers molds the barriers of entry and forms the competitive dynamic
7. Manageability Debate: Can innovation be managed and controlled? Those who argue innovation can be managed see it as (Meadows, pp 2)
7.1. Adminstrative problem
7.2. Technical process
7.3. Social/Political matter
7.4. Marketing issue
7.5. Behavioral/Cognitive phenomneon
7.6. Evolutionary process
8. Innovation Paradox
8.1. Goal - creating security and stability through novelty
8.2. The reality is it creates unpredictability and instability
8.3. Organizations must continually innovate in order to survive which only adds to the complexity
8.4. Outcomes that are unpredictable. The general belief that rational choices will lead to ultimate solutions, never become realized
8.5. The end result: anxiety and frustration happens when the innovation fails to meet the desired expectations
