Trends in Organizational Creativity & Innovation
Paul Schumann

Innovation
• Cause change?
• Exploit change?
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Exploiting Change
Sociopolitical Demographic
Competitors Customers Technologies
Technological Economic
Opportunity Innovation Threat
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Change Drivers
• Demographic
• Sociopolitical
• Technological
• Economic
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Trends
Diversity
Pluralism
Creative commons
Innovation Commons
Information
Social technologies
Trans disciplinary
technologies
Coases’s law
Globalism
...
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Commons
• Definition: A set of individuals & their
entity as a whole
• History
• The failure of the commons
• Scarce vs. abundant resource commons
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Innovation Commons
• A space (physical or
virtual) that enables
innovation through the
mutual and
interdependent creativity
of its members
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Innovation Commons (cont.)
• Bounded open system
• Everyone contributes
• Everyone can use the results
• Members who don’t contribute are
excluded
• Fluid & flexible
• An abundant resource system
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Potential Participants
• Project/Team
• Company
• Partners
• Vendors/Suppliers
• Academics
• Customers
• Stakeholders
• Competitors
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Observations
• Communities of collaboration
• Software tools
• Civic (social) capital
• Wisdom of crowds (Smart Mobs)
• Peer-to-peer (P2P)
• Predictive Markets
• Intelligent Agents
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Free Information
• Contact Information • Web Sites
– www.glocalvantage.com
– Paul Schumann – www.theinnovationroadmap.com
– Glocal Vantage, Inc. – www.innovationcommons.net
– www.centexwfs.org
– PO Box 26947 – www.amcreativityassoc.org
– Austin, TX 78755-0947 • Blogs
– http://innovationtravelogue.blogspot.com
– 512.302.1935 – http://innovationcommons.blogspot.com
– pauls@glocalvantage.com – http://illuminatedinnovant.blogspot.com
– http://creativity-at-work.blogspot.com
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Questions
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Conclusion
• Marshall McLuhan Was Right
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