Transformative Innovation

Innovation is a necessity in a changing world. But what kind of innovation. Sustaining innovation fixes what's failing. Disruptive innovation shakesthings up. Only transformative innovation can deliver a fundamental shifttowards new patterns of viability in tune with our aspirations for the future. Typically, disruptive initiatives make only a short-term impact or areeventually 'mainstreamed' to help sustain existing systems. That isparticularly true in the public, social, cultural and civic sectors (for whichthis book is written) where no natural patterns of renewal are in place. This is a stand-alone, practical guide to realizing transformative potentialat scale. It offers six elements for policymakers, funders and innovators: Knowing: how to expand our sense of what constitutes validknowledge to become more comfortable with complexity Imagining: how to conceive, develop and design transformativeinitiatives to carry a group's longer term aspirations Being: how to organise for action, manage the process, and sustainthe people involved over time Doing: how to introduce the new in the presence of the old, enrolothers and figure out what to do when you don't know what to do Enabling: how to construct a policy framework for long-termtransition and provide smart financing to match Supporting: how to develop systems and structures to support aculture of renewal in our public, social and civic systems. It ends with an invitation to join a growing community of transformativeinnovators around the world - a network of hope in powerful times.