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China the story of innovation and disruption.

Paul Hobcraft

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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Why we should focus on Innovation Governance

Paul Hobcraft

” We have just had our third short conversation of a five-part series on Innovation Governance. This specific conversation is all about the fit of innovation governance within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. This is the link on Innovation Governance to the conversation, just under 14 minutes to listen to.

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Our innovation era: creative destruction or destructive creation- which?

Paul Hobcraft

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? Schumpeter saw “creative destruction” as the renewing, through innovation, society’s dynamics that would lead to higher economic development and welfare levels.

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China the story of innovation and disruption.

Paul Hobcraft

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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Our innovation era: creative destruction or destructive creation- which?

Paul Hobcraft

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? Schumpeter saw “creative destruction” as the renewing, through innovation, society’s dynamics that would lead to higher economic development and welfare levels.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

It is always our intention to offer some different thrôughts about the balancing of function, design, process, and structure and giving it equally the creative dynamic attention it needs. The importance of good governance and the proper functioning structure and the process can help absorb and translate these tensions.

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The secret to this government department’s innovation success: Small teams

Idea to Value

Is it possible for government agencies to innovate? And in the case of the US Government: a startup mentality. The federal government is the largest institution in the world, and spends $86 billion annually just on IT projects. Pair these people with dedicated civil servants already working in government. How did it go?

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