A Step By Step Innovation Process

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A Step By Step Innovation Process
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What Social Innovation Is ?

• Social innovation refers to new strategies,
  concepts, ideas, and organizations that extend
  and strengthen civil society or meet societal
  needs of all kindsfrom working conditions and
  education to community development and health.

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Terms Of Social Innovation

• Social
• Of or relating to society.
• Innovation
• A change in customs something new and
  contrary to established customs, manners, or
  rites.
• Social Capital
• The value created by interpersonal
  relationships with expected returns in the
  marketplace.

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KEY POINTS

• Social innovation can refer to social processes
  of innovation, such as open source methods and
  techniques.
• Social innovation can also refer to innovations
  that have a social purpose, like microcredit or
  distance learning, and can be related to social
  entrepreneurship.
• Social innovation can take place within the
  government sector, the for-profit sector, the
  nonprofit sector (also known as the third
  sector), or in the spaces between them.

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The Process Of Social Innovation

• Social innovation is often an effort of mental
  creativity that involves fluency and flexibility
  across a wide range of disciplines.
• The act of social innovation in a sector
  encompasses diverse disciplines within society.

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• The social innovation theory of "connected
  difference" emphasizes three key dimensions of
  social innovation
• First, it usually produces new combinations or
  hybrids of existing elements, rather than wholly
  new.
• Second, it cuts across organizational or
  disciplinary boundaries.
• Last, it creates compelling new relationships
  between previously separate individuals and
  groups. Social innovation is currently gaining
  visibility within academia.

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A Five Stage In Innovation Process

• 1. Preparation
• This involves paying real, detailed
  attention to whats going on in the area of your
  business where you want to innovate whats its
  purpose/who gets something from it/what,
  fundamentally, are the outcomes its supposed to
  yield?
• 2. Generation
• Once youve explored and understood the
  context in which you are wanting to innovate, you
  can start to come up with ideas that deal with
  the things youve discovered are really
  significant in that context.

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• 3. Incubation
• Once youve developed some options, sleep on
  them, or at least go away, do something else and
  then come back to them. This will allow your
  brain to process them and make better sense of
  them.
• 4. Evaluation
• Once youve slept on the options youve
  created, you can evaluate them from a more
  objective perspective. A good approach is to use
  the themes you identified during preparation. Do
  these options fulfil the purpose, give everyone
  what they need and yield the fundamental
  outcomes?

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• 5. Implementation
• Some might say that this is the most
  challenging stage of the process turning, with
  the cooperation of colleagues, clients, suppliers
  and so on, a good idea into something that works
  to everyones satisfaction!

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A Five Stage In Innovation Process
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Summary

• The results of social innovation new ideas that
  meet unmet needs are all around us.
• They include fair trade and restorative justice,
  hospices and kindergartens, distance learning and
  traffic calming.
• Social innovation is not unique to the non-profit
  sector.
• It can be driven by politics and government(for
  example, new models of public health), markets
  (for example, open source software or organic
  food),movements (for example, fair trade), and
  academia(for example, pedagogical models of
  childcare),as well as by social enterprises
  (microcredit and magazines for the homeless.

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