Thought leader Tom Bentley - Executive Director for Policy and Cabinet, Department of Premier and Cabinet Victoria - led a discussion of the 'people' element of innovation.
He was joined by Brenda Read - General Manager of the Hunter Business Centre and 2006 Telstra New South Wales Business Woman of the Year (Community and Government) - and Grant Kearney - CEO, InnovativeXChange Network and Fast Thinking Magazine.
For a written precis of Tom's major point, please click here
Click here for a recording of Tom Bentley's address
Brenda Read's contribution to the discussion is here
Click here for a written summary of Brenda's talk.
Click here for a sound file of Grant Kearney's presentation
A written summary of Grant's comments is here
A recording of the Question and Answer Session can be found here
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Tom Bentley's four challenges:
1. How to start innovation from the edge: ie not always from big companies or not always from the top down;
2. How to help people learn from doing
3. How to connect workplaces so that they can share and collaborate and
4. How to strengthen the level of honesty in organisational decision making so that more people can contribute or feel they want to contribute.
These are all cultural aspects of innovation. And right to be emphasised. Sometime it appears that just getting the right skills and organisaitonal framework in place is sufficient. In truth, a negative culture (whether in an organisation or in a State) can kills the process of innovation before it begins.
A culture where innovation flourishes needs to:
celebrate and respect learning
be flat and flexible in structure
allow failure in the early stages and learn from failure and as well as success
An edict to be more innovative rarely achieves the desired effect when all the other conditions remain unchanged.
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