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Helene Blowers Director of Digital Strategy & IT Columbus Metropolitan Library [email_address] My Slides are @ www.slideshare.net/hblowers Editor's Notes Ron Johnston , Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Innovation Watts Humphrey – author of numerous technical and management books including Managing for Innovation: Leading technical people Theodore Levitt – former editor of Harvard Business review and trend setting book Innovation in Marketing ( 1962) Focuses on improving what already exists. Requires minimal investment since innovation builds upon existing products and services. Focuses mostly on cost savings, efficiencies or expanding service. Barriers to success are low. 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