Innovation Leadership in Action –Today and in the Future

John Body and Stefano Ceri ()
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Stefano Ceri: DEIB Dept. Politecnico di Milano

Chapter Chapter 6 in Creating Innovation Leaders, 2016, pp 125-141 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we look at innovation leadership in action, specifically how the presence or lack of leadership has shaped the innovation process. We concentrate on complex problems and great challenges; indeed, such problems highlight where new leadership is required, as they feature higher dimensionality, and a great number of stakeholders with a variety of objectives and needs, and the decision making cannot be reduced to a top-down technical exercise. We show some situations where the use of innovation as a modality, along the dimensions that were discussed in Chap. 3 , is a fundamental ingredient for inducing positive change; and we also show, on the negative side, situations in which the lack of innovation leadership has amplified conflicts and difficulties in delivering results. The discussion on acts and processes can be viewed as a natural complement to the main topic of this book, while the other chapters focus on the education and training of the individuals who will be the major actors of innovation. If these individuals are not integrated in processes leading to innovation (or do not set such processes up), it is unlikely that they will be able to deliver results.

Keywords: Mobile Phone; High Speed Train; Murray Darling Basin; Next Generation Sequencing Data; Money Transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20520-5_6

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