The Social Dimension of Innovation
Much has been written about Innovation lately - almost everything is about what and why. It seems that attention is on creative processes, fuzzy frontend or even stage gate optimization. Some how very instrumental.
The idea of diversity in group formation, social networks and relation building is in contrast not very offen represented in that discussion. Why is that?
I think some of the answers is to be found in the misunderstood and misinterpreted necessity for costcutting and overall optimization of production. And, what maybe is more important, because Human Resources in many organizations still is “compared” with other production facillities.
In recent years there has been an evolving movement towards explaining the obvious link between the number of and types of relations in personal networks to overall company innovation capabillity - and a new understanding of the importance of technology is definitly part of that picture.
How do your organization cope with “Knowledge Management” and Innovation capabillity? And do you see the same picture?