Measuring Capacity for Innovation in Local Government Organizations.
Author: David H. Cropley.
Issue: 2016, Vol. 2
Abstract
While innovation is widely accepted as essential to organizational success, this narrative is tied typically to long- and short-term financial performance. This perspective overlooks performance and innovation in not-for-profit sectors of the economy, e.g. local government. Innovation – finding and exploiting novel and effective solutions to problems – is also vital to the success of local government organizations that are faced with the task of meeting the needs of their constituencies in a changing world. This article describes a model of the psychological antecedents of innovation, and leads to a measure of organizational capacity for innovation. A case study diagnosis of a local government organization is presented. The diagnostic baseline serves as a starting point for the improvement of local government organizations’ capacity for innovation, ultimately driving their ability to satisfy the needs of their constituencies, and therefore their non-financial performance.
Keywords: innovation, creativity, organization, local government, measurement, diagnosis.
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Author: David H. Cropley.
Issue: 2016, Vol. 2
Abstract
While innovation is widely accepted as essential to organizational success, this narrative is tied typically to long- and short-term financial performance. This perspective overlooks performance and innovation in not-for-profit sectors of the economy, e.g. local government. Innovation – finding and exploiting novel and effective solutions to problems – is also vital to the success of local government organizations that are faced with the task of meeting the needs of their constituencies in a changing world. This article describes a model of the psychological antecedents of innovation, and leads to a measure of organizational capacity for innovation. A case study diagnosis of a local government organization is presented. The diagnostic baseline serves as a starting point for the improvement of local government organizations’ capacity for innovation, ultimately driving their ability to satisfy the needs of their constituencies, and therefore their non-financial performance.
Keywords: innovation, creativity, organization, local government, measurement, diagnosis.
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