Transformative Innovation - 2nd Edition by Graham Leicester (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Innovation is vital. But 'sustaining innovation' and 'disruptive innovation' are not enough. Only 'transformative innovation' delivers a fundamental shift to new patterns of viability in tune with our aspirations. This is a stand-alone, practical guide to realizing transformative potential at scale, written for policymakers, funders and innov<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Innovation is a necessity in a changing world. But what kind of innovation?<br /> Sustaining innovation fixes what's failing. Disruptive innovation shakes<br /> things up. Only transformative innovation can deliver a fundamental shift<br /> towards new patterns of viability in tune with our aspirations for the future.<br /> Typically, disruptive initiatives make only a short-term impact or are<br /> eventually 'mainstreamed' to help sustain existing systems. That is<br /> particularly true in the public, social, cultural and civic sectors (for which<br /> this book is written) where no natural patterns of renewal are in place.<br /> This is a stand-alone, practical guide to realizing transformative potential<br /> at scale. It offers six elements for policymakers, funders and innovators: <br /> - Knowing: how to expand our sense of what constitutes valid<br /> knowledge to become more comfortable with complexity<br /> - Imagining: how to conceive, develop and design transformative<br /> initiatives to carry a group's longer term aspirations<br /> - Being: how to organise for action, manage the process, and sustain<br /> the people involved over time<br /> - Doing: how to introduce the new in the presence of the old, enrol<br /> others and figure out what to do when you don't know what to do<br /> - Enabling: how to construct a policy framework for long-term<br /> transition and provide smart financing to match<br /> - Supporting: how to develop systems and structures to support a<br /> culture of renewal in our public, social and civic systems.<br /> It ends with an invitation to join a growing community of transformative<br /> innovators around the world - a network of hope in powerful times.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Graham Leicester</b> is Director of the International Futures Forum. Graham previously ran Scotland's leading think tank, the Scottish Council Foundation, founded in 1997. From 1984-1995 he served as a diplomat in HM Diplomatic Service, specialising in China (he speaks Mandarin Chinese) and the EU. Between 1995 and 1997 he was senior research fellow with the Constitution Unit at University College London. He has also worked as a freelance professional cellist, including with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He has a strong interest in governance, innovation, and education, is a senior adviser to the British Council on those issues, and has previously worked with OECD, the World Bank Institute, and other agencies on the themes of governance in a knowledge society and the governance of the long term.
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