The U.S. daily newsletter Inside Higher Ed recently highlighted our WINCan project to explore how we can effectively adapt insights on organizational innovation from the corporate sector to Higher Education. Our guest post in IHE’s Higher Ed Gamma column was entitled Looking Outside Academia for Insights on Sustaining Strategic Innovation.
“We've been exploring this approach with scenarios of institutions setting a course to sustain strategic innovation in teaching and learning by looking inside to incubate and accelerate educational innovations and looking outside for guidance on organizing and managing those developments, including aligning innovative activities with strategic intent.
We present here an excerpt from one of those scenarios fictionalized from real cases we have closely tracked to illustrate when these institutions might be advised to look outside, where they could look and what they would find there of value. We'll close with a sketch of our ongoing research to reality-check these proof-of-concept scenarios against real world constraints.”
You can read the entire post on the Inside Higher Ed site here.
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Anahita Baregheh is an Associate Professor at Nipissing University’s School of Business and Research Director for the Workplace Innovation Network for Canada.
Thomas Carey is co-Principal Catalyst for the Workplace Innovation Network for Canada, Executive-in-Residence with the Monash University Faculty of Arts and a former Associate Vice-President at the University of Waterloo
Gina O’Connor is Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College. Dr. O’Connor is a recognized thought leader in the field of innovation and lead author of Beyond the Champion: Institutionalizing Innovation Through People.