Trends in Organizational Creativity & Innovation

Paul Schumann

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Innovation

• Cause change?

• Exploit change?

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Exploiting Change

CustomersCompetitors Technologies

Sociopolitical

Economic

Demographic

Technological

Opportunity ThreatInnovation

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Change Drivers

• Demographic

• Sociopolitical

• Technological

• Economic

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Trends

Diversity

Pluralism

Creative commons

Information

Social technologies

Trans disciplinarytechnologies

Coases’s law

Globalism

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Innovation Commons

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Commons

• Definition: A set of individuals & theirentity as a whole

• History

• The failure of the commons

• Scarce vs. abundant resource commons

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Innovation Commons

• A space (physical orvirtual) that enablesinnovation through themutual andinterdependent creativityof its members

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Innovation Commons (cont.)

• Bounded open system

• Everyone contributes

• Everyone can use the results

• Members who don’t contribute areexcluded

• Fluid & flexible

• An abundant resource system

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Potential Participants

• Project/Team

• Company

• Partners

• Vendors/Suppliers

• Academics

• Customers

• Stakeholders

• Competitors

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Observations

• Communities of collaboration

• Software tools

• Civic (social) capital

• Wisdom of crowds (Smart Mobs)

• Peer-to-peer (P2P)

• Predictive Markets

• Intelligent Agents

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Free Information

• Contact Information– Paul Schumann

– Glocal Vantage, Inc.

– PO Box 26947

– Austin, TX 78755-0947

– 512.302.1935

– pauls@glocalvantage.com

• Web Sites– www.glocalvantage.com

– www.theinnovationroadmap.com

– www.innovationcommons.net

– www.centexwfs.org

– www.amcreativityassoc.org

• Blogs– http://innovationtravelogue.blogspot.com

– http://innovationcommons.blogspot.com

– http://illuminatedinnovant.blogspot.com

– http://creativity-at-work.blogspot.com

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Questions

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Conclusion

• Marshall McLuhan Was Right