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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: INNOVATION FOR JUDI PRESENTATION 2 jUNE, April 2011 When We Fail at Failure by Adi Ignatius One mantra of modern business is that nothing is a better teacher than failure. For some entrepreneurs, it’s virtually a badge of honor to have stumbled, even spectacularly, on the way to success. Most of us, however, find it hard to draw useful lessons from our missteps. We tend to fail at failure. (My teenage son and his friends would call this an “epic fail. ????, ???? FINDING THE HIDDEN HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF INNOVATION Innovate: verb, to create something new and valuable a process rather than an event. The active ingredient of that process is, undoubtedly, people. Axiomatic: adjective, taken for granted people are the most valuable assets of any business enterprise is axiomatic in the contemporary thinking of businesses, government and academe. against the backdrop of a wider ‘innovation ecosystem’, s the financial and legal systems, universities and research institutions, government regulations and standards, and professional and industry norms and practices. Synergies: noun, plural, things that are greater than the sum of their parts Innovation, however, is often mistakenly equated with new technologies, discoveries or inventions, or portrayed as simply embracing all forms of individual or organisational creativity regardless of whether new economic or social value is created. Instead, this research embraces the diversity, intricacy and potential for chaos inherent in innovating, along with its implicit synergie Collaboratively: adverb, (working) jointly with others esp. in an intellectual endeavour The authors have proceeded from divergent frames of reference, professional backgrounds and subject matter expertise. The intersections, and sometimes collisions, of ideas expressed provide an outcome all the richer for substantiating the level of intricacy inherent in the issue. Conversation: noun, exchange of observations, opinions, or ideas, BUSINESS INNOVATION ????, ???? 3. Realigning State and regional infrastructure responsibilities greater collaboration and harmonisation on infrastructure between levels of government, together with more meaningful participation by local and regional communities in State level infrastructure decisions. The recommended strategy is the concept of ''place management'' to focus on local customised infrastructure solutions, aligned with State Government targets, but which cross the functional boundaries of State Government. Specifically, actions are recommended on the development by regions of regional infrastructure plans as a prerequisite for accessing a proportion of the State Public Works budget for priority regional infrastructure projects., ???? Innovation as social not technical process Problem solving and learning, not scientific discovery Customer not producer Transformation not technology, ???? Organizational creativity and innovation without proper measurement is at best a waste of money, at worst the portent for catastrophic innovation failure. As Peter Drucker, the grandfather of management theory so perfectly said, What Gets Measured, Gets Managed” and in our experience that is absolutely the case with organizational innovation., ???? ???? There was strong support in submissions for the value of VET in Schools programs in broadening opportunities for school students and providing links to the world of work. However there is considerable disquiet among stakeholders and evidence of uneven quality, confused purpose and lack of confidence in the program’s outcomes, ???? Many public sector organizations and schools are not designed to promote sharing and collaboration; they have cultures of knowledge hoarding, where “knowledge is power” is still a central cultural tenet. Susan Moore Johnston (2010) has described the traditional education culture as the “egg crate model” where practitioners teach children within individual classrooms, isolated from the support and knowledge of colleagues., EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION ????, BUSINESS INNOVATION ???? 11 CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF A BUSINESS PITCH, ????, ???? The Industry Skills Councils (ISCs) believe that responsibility for building the LLN skills of Australians should be shared by industry and all education sectors. Nothing less than a co-ordinated response to the LLN challenge will succeed.