INNOVATION THROUGH A SELF-ORGANIZATION LENS

Innovation through a Self-Organization Lens

This study argues that the concept of ‘self-organization’ is useful as an alternative to evaluate innovative capacity in rural communities and enable an effective engagement with the economic development regions. The concept of self-organization provides a means of reviewing regions in a manner which enables local Governments to measure and develop innovative capacity. Developing innovative cap...

IT Innovation Through a Work Systems Lens

This paper presents what I think is an innovation, the use of work system concepts as a lens for understanding IT innovation in organizations. It starts by presenting the ideas at the heart of the work system approach, the work system framework for describing an existing or proposed work system and the work system life cycle model for describing how work systems change over time. To demonstrate...

Self-Management through Self-Organization

environment—with minimal or no human intervention. Self-management can significantly reduce costs and increase robustness. Moreover, it’s sometimes required because time or location constraints make human management impossible. Bringing selfmanagement about in a variety of systems such as wired or wireless networks, peer-to-peer systems, the computational Grid, and distributed and embedded syst...

Leadership and innovation in nursing seen through a historical lens.

AIM To explore nurses' archived accounts of Matron Muriel Powell's management and leadership style and the impact of this on the implementation and sustainability of innovation in the workplace. BACKGROUND In popular discourse, the matron has become an emblem of leadership. Although the title disappeared in the UK in the late 1960s as part of the re-organization recommended by the Salmon Repo...

Determinants of innovation through a knowledge-based theory lens