Here with Dr. Kieth Sawyer on Innovation – Lance is interviewing him.
Innovation can’t come from a database. But there needs to be person to person interation, even on line is OK. But that is the problem with KB. Steel Case has white papers on how to create the layouts/organization for maximum collaboration. He has done a lot of research on how to create innovation and then integrating (more lately) the Web 2.0 angle and how that helps. His book tries to understand it all.
The fundamentals of innovations still hold true, but the internet compresses it and speeds it up – more innovation more quickly.
Very interesting stuff that I am REALLY interested in!
OSS communities are not innovations. For the most part they are copies of the original work. I just asked what the definition of ‘Innovation’ is, because it seems to be nebulous. His answer didn’t help. He said that Linux, for example, is not an innovation (it is a copy), but then my question is that at what point it is an innovation? How many things are truly and innovation?
The Learning Organization which has innovation probably would not have a certification at the end, not like traditional org. It is more fluid. Of course there needs to be some sort of measurement, but not like they are today.
What should us training professionals be thinking about? Creativity: Be collaborative and open and share. The tendency is to be possessive and own rather than to open it up. It helps every part of the organization. Innovation: Focus on what is supported by the science of learning rather than the wizbang stuff. Don’t spend money on the technology unless there is a way to get benefit out of it that other ways cannot provide.
