Leadership and Innovation
Superior topic:
Leadership and Innovation
Working title:
‘Is leadership important in the process of innovation?’
To what degree? How? Why?
University of Latvia
Riga
Table of content
Introduction 3
1. Scientific question 4
2. Defining the problem 4
3. Defining innovation 4
4. Leadership and innovation 5 4.1. Resistance 5 4.2. Coping 5 4.3. Responding 6 4.4. Choosing 6 4.5. Bringing forth 6 4.6. Mastery 6
5. Conclusion 7
Scientific question
In this written paper, I deal with the topic ‘Leadership and Innovation’.
The main questions are: * Is leadership important in the process of innovation? * To what degree? * How? * Why?
Defining the problem
Right now, we find ourselves in the ‘Age of Knowledge’. In this age, power and control happen to be approved via ideas, individuality and creativity. Information and education are our primary commodities. It produces knowledge and technological innovations as the key goods in these times.
In many organizations innovative work is something special, and very often running outside the routine business processes. But innovation activities should go into ‘flesh and blood’ of organizations, and thereby achieving real breakthroughs in the market.
But not only geniuses can produce real progress or innovations. In the past, we found out that innovation have very often been an achievement of team, which were led by creative leaders.
Defining innovation
According to Jim Selman, innovation means ‘intentionally ‘bringing into existence’ something new that can be sustained and repeated and which has some value or utility’.
For Selman, innovation is not just change, but as change can be simply seen as a random event or accident, this definition is not concrete enough. For Selman, innovation is something practical, tools or processes which helps us to accomplish something specific.
Innovation can be the accomplishment of some sustainable change whether large or small,
Leadership and Innovation
Working title:
‘Is leadership important in the process of innovation?’
To what degree? How? Why?
University of Latvia
Riga
Table of content
Introduction 3
1. Scientific question 4
2. Defining the problem 4
3. Defining innovation 4
4. Leadership and innovation 5 4.1. Resistance 5 4.2. Coping 5 4.3. Responding 6 4.4. Choosing 6 4.5. Bringing forth 6 4.6. Mastery 6
5. Conclusion 7
Scientific question
In this written paper, I deal with the topic ‘Leadership and Innovation’.
The main questions are: * Is leadership important in the process of innovation? * To what degree? * How? * Why?
Defining the problem
Right now, we find ourselves in the ‘Age of Knowledge’. In this age, power and control happen to be approved via ideas, individuality and creativity. Information and education are our primary commodities. It produces knowledge and technological innovations as the key goods in these times.
In many organizations innovative work is something special, and very often running outside the routine business processes. But innovation activities should go into ‘flesh and blood’ of organizations, and thereby achieving real breakthroughs in the market.
But not only geniuses can produce real progress or innovations. In the past, we found out that innovation have very often been an achievement of team, which were led by creative leaders.
Defining innovation
According to Jim Selman, innovation means ‘intentionally ‘bringing into existence’ something new that can be sustained and repeated and which has some value or utility’.
For Selman, innovation is not just change, but as change can be simply seen as a random event or accident, this definition is not concrete enough. For Selman, innovation is something practical, tools or processes which helps us to accomplish something specific.
Innovation can be the accomplishment of some sustainable change whether large or small,