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Some ideas for creating a culture of innovation
In my last post I mentioned the importance of the idea of third spaces in creating a culture of innovation and in removing barriers to innovation. I focused solely on the T & L centre as an obvious starting point for a third space or facilitative boundary object, partly because I really wasn’t in the mood to get into how IT departments, steering committees, etc can be so inhibitive, even if they try to be on board with innovation. I find that often these inhibitive structures don’t really know how to be facilitative of innovation, and like T & L centres need some transformation. As the new Director/VP of innovation you can’t always dismantle…
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Removing barriers to innovation – the teaching and learning centre and third spaces
In my last 2 posts ( 7 Rules About Innovation ; First Steps in Creating a Culture of Innovation; I said I’d get to the topic of removing barriers to innovation in an institution. I’m a bit academic about this topic, since I feel like this stage requires some sort of framework that gives your actions some method to the madness. This is also one area where I think senior leadership would do well to be a bit more academic outside of standard leadership literature and practices. But I digress… Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory is probably the most well known and cited tome on innovation, and I’ve found that senior admin really…
