Transformative Innovation

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This book offers a first stand-alone practical guide to how to realise transformative potential at scale. It offers six elements for policymakers, funders and innovators:Knowing: how to expand our sense of what constitutes valid knowledge to become more comfortable with complexityImagining: how to conceive, develop and design transformative initiatives to carry a group's longer term aspirationsBeing: how to organise for action, manage the process, and sustain the people involved over timeDoing: how to introduce the new in the presence of the old, enrol others and figure out what to do when you don't know what to doEnabling: how to construct a policy framework for long term transition and provide smart financing to matchSupporting: how to develop systems and structures to support a culture of renewal in our public, social and civic systems.It concludes with an invitation to join a growing community of transformative innovators around the world - a network of hope in powerful times.Readership: This is a book for planners, policy-makers, project managers and team leaders working anywhere outside the commercial sector. It's a guide to visioning, planning, funding, starting, running, sustaining and reporting on an effective innovation initiative.