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Innovation is back on the radar in many organizations. Recent 'movements' such as open innovation, 'crowdsourcing' and the whole wikinomic world have given significant air time to anything related to tapping into human and social capital, both within the organization and well beyond. And a fair amount of that air time is given to 'processes for innovation' and 'capturing innovative ideas'.
What is not clear, however, is how you go from 'innovative idea' to actual innovation, as the behavioural aspects of innovation don't often get emphasized. Innovactions bridges this gap, providing an analysis of the components required to create a 'culture of innovation', focussing heavily on what people do or don't do to achieve (or miss!) a goal.
Creating the right organizational behavioural environment for inquiry, curiosity and perpetual re-invention is far more important than establishing processes and channels to capture so-called 'innovative ideas'. The book, though also addressing processes and skills, firmly emphasizes the key role of innovative behaviours, debunking a few myths along the way.
Innovactions will appeal to any manager and leader interested in creating the organizational and socio-environmental conditions for innovation within their company. It will provide them with specific simple management tools to create a culture in which different forms and degrees of innovation can coexist and flourish.
WILL BE PUBLISHED IN 2012 | 
