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Aligning improvement and innovation: some issues and challenges

DECD Research and Innovation Committee, South Australia August 30 2012. Aligning improvement and innovation: some issues and challenges. Valerie Hannon, Innovation Unit, UK. Has the case for transformation (as distinct from improvement) yet been made with compelling force?.

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Aligning improvement and innovation: some issues and challenges

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  1. DECD Research and Innovation Committee, South Australia August 30 2012 Aligning improvement and innovation: some issues and challenges Valerie Hannon, Innovation Unit, UK

  2. Has the case for transformation (as distinct from improvement) yet been made with compelling force?

  3. Technological change isaccelerating.

  4. World Recession In many countries, deep problems with public sector borrowing, spending and debt Profound long-lasting consequences for all public services Swingeing cuts in services either underway or in prospect The search for ‘more for less’

  5. Globalisation, so what? Integrated world markets (IT & containerisation mean new lower-cost producers in the world market) Jobs can be quickly transferred from one side of the world to another Consumers/researchers look across the world for the best Higher order skills are at a premium Education itself is globalising: mobile students, distance/online learning, competition between providers Understanding identity, core values and cultural practices is more important than ever

  6. Worldwide demand for learning DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPED WORLD

  7. Worldwide demand for learning Youth bulge new demand for learning DEVELOPING WORLD

  8. Worldwide demand for learning Ageing populationnew dependency ratio Workforce crisis Lifelong learners DEVELOPED WORLD

  9. Career Paths are changing. 20TH CENTURY 1-2 jobs, masteryof one field 21ST CENTURY 10-15 jobs, breadth, depth in several fields

  10. Transformation means fundamental shape-shifting changes in….. Time Partnership Pedagogy Place

  11. ‘Awaking possibility’ means modelling real alternatives to the current paradigm - but they have to demonstrate the shift

  12. Are ‘super schools’ doing this in your context?

  13. Do you have real consensus about the key changes to be made? (e.g. it’s not just about the technology…. )

  14. S-Curve: raised goals or different goals? Closing / Transitioning 5 Extracting Efficiencies 4 6 Jumping and Transforming Operationalizing the results 3 Scaling for growth 2 1 Architecting the future

  15. The innovator’s (and the evaluator’s) dilemma Adapted from Ready or Not? Taking Innovation in the public sector seriously  (NESTA 2007)

  16. proposition 1: The best way to engender a powerful (impactful) research agenda is to foster a culture of inquiry at all levels: involve teachers AND students (and communities?) How could this be done?

  17. proposition 2: Innovation needs D&R not RCT. Do you have spaces where genuine experimentation and transformation is intentionally explored in a disciplined way? Is there scope for such an approach in your context?

  18. Differentiating leadership of improvement and leadership of innovation Intense knowledge of your sector; preparedness to look outward and beyond Attitude to data – choice of indicators Attitude towards research: the final word, or a starting point?

  19. it’s not either/or it’s both, and….

  20. “The most important characteristic of an innovative firm is that it has an explicit system of innovation which pervades the whole organisation, which is visible, known about, generates a stream of new ideas, and is seen as vital to creating new value”John Kao Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Corporate Creativity

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