I have spent many years of my life in the area of Talent Management (or as it was known many years back as e-learning). The use of learning as a strategic weapon in organizations has always fascinated me. In particular, smaller innovative organizations that survive and succeed learn a lot more quickly and painlessly.
http://www.slideshare.net/sanjoysanyal/learning-in-innovative-organizations/
These slides based on a few chapters of "Making Innovation Work" by Tony Davila, Marc Epstein, Robert Shelton build a framework to understand Innovation. A key point it makes is that it links Knowledge Management (which has for many years dominated our thoughts on Learning) to the Innovation Framework. Knowledge Management is central to Incremental Innovation – operational items that organizations have to do everyday.
For radical innovation – on the other hand – learning by experimentation is key. There is really no substitute for trying and failing quickly. This reinforces the need for leaders and managers need to build an open collaborative culture to facilitate learning.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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I agree with you that innovation is a nice way of learning particularly in India. But there is a definite barrier that one has to work when we work in a mixed culture environment. Also the whole concept of innovation is new to Indians. Most of us feel that "Innovation" always needs to fall in to the Destructive Section rather than the constructive section. When we talk about Innovation, people often misunderstand and give up thinking, that innovation has to be an out of the box phenomemon. What people do not realize is that an additional feature such as a camera on a mobile which often goes out as "imporvement' rather than "innovation" is also innovation.
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