organizations to survive and maintaining their positive and constructive role, are needed new thinking and ideas in order to ensure their own dynamic, otherwise they will be condemned to decay and destruction. one of the factors in the incidence of innovation is the organizational culture that could be promoter or inhibitor of innovation in the organization. in the meantime, according to the ma...

Can we move beyond simply networking creative individuals to establishing diverse communities of practice for innovation through discursive methods. Furthermore, can we digitise their creativity activities within an integrative socio-cultural collaborative technology platform that could then support distributed innovation. First, we consider the complexity of creative cultures from the perspect...

C R E AT I V I T Y A N D I N N O VAT I O N are often collective endeavors. Creativity typically entails the generation of novel yet useful ideas, whereas innovation reflects a combination of both idea generation and idea implementation (Amabile, 1996; Hülsheger, Anderson, & Salgado, 2009; Mumford & Gustafson, 1988; West & Anderson, 1996). Most process models of creative problem solving and inno...

This report provides a brief overview of the theoretical foundations for creativity and innovation in the context ofeducation, as a background for the other planned reports. It attempts to define creativity and innovation in theeducational context and provide an overview of research on creativity and innovation, especially for creativelearning and innovative teaching. This work aims...

In recent years, some software organizations have been successful at improving their maturity level, thanks to the successful application of methods and techniques which help them to achieve better performance and more consistent production processes. Models such as the Sw-CMM (and its evolutions and derived models) have provided roadmaps to process improvements. Creativity and innovation have ...

There is considerable interest in the role of management control systems (MCS) in enhancing innovation and performance in organisations. An aspect of MCS that has attracted recent attention is the role of performance measurement systems (PMS) in organisational innovation. However, as yet, there has been little consideration given to identifying the nature of the relationship between PMS and cre...

Making Innovation Work challenges prevailing misconceptions and lays out the tools and processes necessary for an organization to harness, manage, and execute innovation successfully and profitably. It provides a start-to-finish process for defining innovation strategy, integrating innovation and business strategy, balancing creativity and value capture, weaving innovation into the fabric of th...