A Step By Step Innovation Process

1. A Step By Step Innovation Process

2. What Social Innovation Is ? Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas, and organizations that extend and strengthen civil society or meet societal needs of all kinds—from working conditions and education to community development and health.

3. Terms Of Social Innovation Social Of or relating to society. Innovation A change in customs; something new and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites. Social Capital The value created by interpersonal relationships with expected returns in the marketplace.

4. KEY POINTS Social innovation can refer to social processes of innovation, such as open source methods and techniques. Social innovation can also refer to innovations that have a social purpose, like microcredit or distance learning, and can be related to social entrepreneurship. Social innovation can take place within the government sector, the for-profit sector, the nonprofit sector (also known as the third sector), or in the spaces between them.

5. The Process Of Social Innovation Social innovation is often an effort of mental creativity that involves fluency and flexibility across a wide range of disciplines. The act of social innovation in a sector encompasses diverse disciplines within society.

6. The social innovation theory of "connected difference" emphasizes three key dimensions of social innovation: First, it usually produces new combinations or hybrids of existing elements, rather than wholly new. Second, it cuts across organizational or disciplinary boundaries. Last, it creates compelling new relationships between previously separate individuals and groups. Social innovation is currently gaining visibility within academia.

7. A Five Stage In Innovation Process 1. Preparation This involves paying real, detailed attention to what’s going on in the area of your business where you want to innovate – what’s its purpose/who gets something from it/what, fundamentally, are the outcomes it’s supposed to yield? 2. Generation Once you’ve explored and understood the context in which you are wanting to innovate, you can start to come up with ideas that deal with the things you’ve discovered are really significant in that context.

8. 3. Incubation Once you’ve developed some options, sleep on them, or at least go away, do something else and then come back to them. This will allow your brain to process them and make better sense of them. 4. Evaluation Once you’ve slept on the options you’ve created, you can evaluate them from a more objective perspective. A good approach is to use the themes you identified during preparation. Do these options fulfil the purpose, give everyone what they need and yield the fundamental outcomes?

9. 5. Implementation Some might say that this is the most challenging stage of the process – turning, with the cooperation of colleagues, clients, suppliers and so on, a good idea into something that works to everyone’s satisfaction!

10. A Five Stage In Innovation Process

11. Summary The results of social innovation – new ideas that meet unmet needs – are all around us. They include fair trade and restorative justice, hospices and kindergartens, distance learning and traffic calming. Social innovation is not unique to the non-profit sector. It can be driven by politics and government(for example, new models of public health), markets (for example, open source software or organic food),movements (for example, fair trade), and academia(for example, pedagogical models of childcare),as well as by social enterprises (microcredit and magazines for the homeless.

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