Transformative Innovation: A Guide to Practice and Policy for System Transition

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This book offers a first stand-alone practical guide to how to realise transformative potential at scale. It offers structure and guidance for policymakers, funders and innovators:

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Innovation is a necessity in a changing world. But what kind of innovation?'Sustaining innovation' props up and temporarily fixes structures and processes that are failing - making them cheaper, faster, safer, more efficient.'Disruptive innovation' shakes things up. Typically however disruptive initiatives offer only short-term impact or are eventually adapted and 'mainstreamed' to help sustain existing systems. That is particularly true in the public, social, cultural and civic sectors where the natural patterns of renewal that have been developed in market settings (creative destruction, sophisticated financial support etc.) are generally absent.Only 'transformative innovation' can deliver a fundamental shift towards new patterns of viability in tune with our aspirations for the future.This book offers a first stand-alone practical guide to how to realise transformative potential at scale. It offers six elements for policymakers, funders and innovators:Knowing: how to expand our sense of what constitutes valid knowledge to become more comfortable with complexityImagining: how to conceive, develop and design transformative initiatives to carry a group's longer term aspirationsBeing: how to organise for action, manage the process, and sustain the people involved over timeDoing: how to introduce the new in the presence of the old, enrol others and figure out what to do when you don't know what to doEnabling: how to construct a policy framework for long term transition and provide smart financing to matchSupporting: how to develop systems and structures to support a culture of renewal in our public, social and civic systems.It concludes with an invitation to join a growing community of transformative innovators around the world - a network of hope in powerful times.

Author Biography

Graham Leicester is Director of the International Futures Forum.Graham previously ran Scotland's leading think tank, the Scottish Council Foundation, founded in 1997.From 1984-1995 he served as a diplomat in HM Diplomatic Service, specialising in China (he speaks Mandarin Chinese) and the EU.Between 1995 and 1997 he was senior research fellow with the Constitution Unit at University College London. He has also worked as a freelance professional cellist, including with the BBC Concert Orchestra.He has a strong interest in governance, innovation and education, is a senior adviser to the British Council on those issues, and has previously worked with OECD, the World Bank Institute and other agencies on the themes of governance in a knowledge society and the governance of the long term.

Table of Contents

IntroductionCHAPTER 1: Transformative InnovationThe Practice of Transformative InnovationThe Capacity to InnovatePractice and TheoryTen Characteristics of Transformative InnovationCase Study: SHINE ~ Changing the Culture of CareCHAPTER 2: KnowingComplexity Is Your FriendFive PrinciplesTwo LoopsA Variety of PromptsCHAPTER 3: ImaginingImagining Social ChangeThree Horizons and Social ChangeConvening the FutureDilemmasImaginary IslandsCHAPTER 4: BeingThe Human SystemOrganizing for ActionManaging the ProcessSustaining the PeopleCHAPTER 5: DoingFrameworks for ActionSocial LearningThe Buddhist and the BrokerTaking ActionCHAPTER 6: EnablingA Compelling Vision of the Third HorizonEncouragement for PioneersA Realistic View of the Policy LandscapeEvaluation Based on Third Horizon IntentionsFinancing Transformative InnovationCHAPTER 7: SupportingEverything FlowsPatterns of RenewalCultural RenewalInfrastructure for Transformative InnovationThe Permission SlipAPPENDIX: The IFF ClanABOUT IFF

Review

"This a quiet and reflective book, and in both length and tone it is a refreshing antidote to the hundreds of over-excitable business books that are at heart vastly padded articles. When reading Transformative Innovation, you have a sense of the depth that sits behind every chapter. You can also pick up the tools and use them in your own practice, especially because the IFF, with its strong commitment to openness, has published much about them both on its own website and through an associated project, H3Uni.org. This rich and humane book should be on the shelf of every practicing futurist. " Andrew Curry writing in APF Compass

Details ISBN1911193805 Author Graham Leicester Pages 132 Publisher Triarchy Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1911193805 ISBN-13 9781911193807 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-06-16 Short Title Transformative Innovation Language English Subtitle A Guide to Practice and Policy for System Transition UK Release Date 2020-06-16 Edition 2nd Imprint Triarchy Press Place of Publication Bridport Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-06-16 NZ Release Date 2020-06-16 Illustrations 10 colour illustrations Edition Description 2nd Revised edition Replaces 9781911193005 DEWEY 658.4063 Audience General We've got this

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