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Innovation Hurdles and
Improvisation
Sung Joo Bae
Assistant Professor
Operations and Technology Management
School of Business
Yonsei University
Realms of Individual & Collective Action
in Organizations
Temporal Separation of
Conception and Execution
Improvisation
(Jazz improv.)
Composition
(Classic concert)
Algorithmic
Execution
(Operators in nuclear
power plant)
Algorithmic
Planning
(SOP Generation for
NPP)
High
Low
Low
High
Novelty
(Divergence
from prior
experience)
Source: Fisher & Amabile
A Model of Improvisational Creativity
Preparation
External
Problem
Presentation
Conception
-Provocative
competence
(Interrupting
habit patterns)
Execution
Improvisation
(Simultaneous/Synchronous Processes)
Improvised
creative outcome
- Can feed into the idea
generation stage of
compositional creativity
- Retrospective
Sensemaking
Expertise
-Well learned
facts & routines
Creativity-relevant
Processes
- Distributed Task
- Soloing & supporting
- Continual negotiation
- Risk orientation
- Hanging out: CoP
Intrinsic Motivation
Focus on
problem/opportunity
Work Environment
- Embracing errors
- Experimental culture
- Real-time info flow
- Minimal structures
Source: Fisher & Amabile + Barrett
Seven Characteristics of Improvisation
Related to the Creative Organization
• Provocative competence – Interrupting
habit patterns
– The difficulty of trying new things 
Consequences!!!
– Remember “Kodak”?
• Embracing errors as source of learning
– Errors often lead to a great invention, but it has
to be embraced and nurtured by other members
in the organization
Seven Characteristics of Improvisation
Related to the Creative Organization
• Minimal structures that allow maximum
flexibility
– Music: patterns of melodies, chord changes,
sections and phrases
– Organization: stories, myths, visions, slogans,
mission statements, trademarks
• Distributed task – Continual negotiation
toward dynamic synchronization
– Innovation is an ongoing social accomplishment
Seven Characteristics of Improvisation
Related to the Creative Organization
• Minimal structures that allow maximum
flexibility
– Music: patterns of melodies, chord changes,
sections and phrases
– Organization: stories, myths, visions, slogans,
mission statements, trademarks
Seven Characteristics
• Distributed task – Continual negotiation toward
dynamic synchronization
• Innovation is an ongoing social accomplishment
You don’t know what the other player is going to play,
but on listening to the playback, you hear that you
related your part very quickly to what the other player
played just before you. It’s like a message that you
relay back and forth… You want to achieve that kind of
communication when you play. When you do, your
playing seems to be making sense. It’s like
conversation
- Tommy Flanagan (Jazz Pianist), 1994
Seven Characteristics of Improvisation
Related to the Creative Organization
• Reliance on retrospective sense-making
– The improviser may be unable to look ahead at
what is going to play, but he can look behind at
what he has just played; thus each new musical
phrase can be shaped with relation to what has
gone before. He creates his form retrospectively.
– Those junk boxes at IDEO
• Hanging out – Membership in communities
of practice
• Alternating between soloing and supporting
Seven Characteristics of Improvisation
Related to the Creative Organization
• Hanging out – Membership in communities
of practice (Informal educational system
with rich context)
– Organizations must see beyond conventional job
descriptions and recognize the rich aspects of
practices
• Alternating between soloing and supporting
– Rotating leadership

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Improvisation

  • 1. Innovation Hurdles and Improvisation Sung Joo Bae Assistant Professor Operations and Technology Management School of Business Yonsei University
  • 2. Realms of Individual & Collective Action in Organizations Temporal Separation of Conception and Execution Improvisation (Jazz improv.) Composition (Classic concert) Algorithmic Execution (Operators in nuclear power plant) Algorithmic Planning (SOP Generation for NPP) High Low Low High Novelty (Divergence from prior experience) Source: Fisher & Amabile
  • 3. A Model of Improvisational Creativity Preparation External Problem Presentation Conception -Provocative competence (Interrupting habit patterns) Execution Improvisation (Simultaneous/Synchronous Processes) Improvised creative outcome - Can feed into the idea generation stage of compositional creativity - Retrospective Sensemaking Expertise -Well learned facts & routines Creativity-relevant Processes - Distributed Task - Soloing & supporting - Continual negotiation - Risk orientation - Hanging out: CoP Intrinsic Motivation Focus on problem/opportunity Work Environment - Embracing errors - Experimental culture - Real-time info flow - Minimal structures Source: Fisher & Amabile + Barrett
  • 4. Seven Characteristics of Improvisation Related to the Creative Organization • Provocative competence – Interrupting habit patterns – The difficulty of trying new things  Consequences!!! – Remember “Kodak”? • Embracing errors as source of learning – Errors often lead to a great invention, but it has to be embraced and nurtured by other members in the organization
  • 5. Seven Characteristics of Improvisation Related to the Creative Organization • Minimal structures that allow maximum flexibility – Music: patterns of melodies, chord changes, sections and phrases – Organization: stories, myths, visions, slogans, mission statements, trademarks • Distributed task – Continual negotiation toward dynamic synchronization – Innovation is an ongoing social accomplishment
  • 6. Seven Characteristics of Improvisation Related to the Creative Organization • Minimal structures that allow maximum flexibility – Music: patterns of melodies, chord changes, sections and phrases – Organization: stories, myths, visions, slogans, mission statements, trademarks
  • 7. Seven Characteristics • Distributed task – Continual negotiation toward dynamic synchronization • Innovation is an ongoing social accomplishment You don’t know what the other player is going to play, but on listening to the playback, you hear that you related your part very quickly to what the other player played just before you. It’s like a message that you relay back and forth… You want to achieve that kind of communication when you play. When you do, your playing seems to be making sense. It’s like conversation - Tommy Flanagan (Jazz Pianist), 1994
  • 8. Seven Characteristics of Improvisation Related to the Creative Organization • Reliance on retrospective sense-making – The improviser may be unable to look ahead at what is going to play, but he can look behind at what he has just played; thus each new musical phrase can be shaped with relation to what has gone before. He creates his form retrospectively. – Those junk boxes at IDEO • Hanging out – Membership in communities of practice • Alternating between soloing and supporting
  • 9. Seven Characteristics of Improvisation Related to the Creative Organization • Hanging out – Membership in communities of practice (Informal educational system with rich context) – Organizations must see beyond conventional job descriptions and recognize the rich aspects of practices • Alternating between soloing and supporting – Rotating leadership