Interesting story I think about the difference between Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 innovation or innovation and disruption:
Good read.
It reminds me too of whether new ways of doing things with process/models/technology are a change or an improvement and how we know?
Good question, I think it is probably really about impact.
A change that is an improvement is really an improvement in the status quo eg. saving two minutes of an existing 60min process which has no impact on other processes or people. I think innovation is where the change you are making has impacts beyond the existing process, either by changing who does something, whether it is done at all or how it happens. Lastly I think the term (in health at least) “clinically relevant” is important. As in the effect of the change is material to the people experiencing the change (patients, population, clinicians etc).
Using my frame of reference above (here) I think improvement fits into horizon 1.
@robyn.whittaker has a much more eloquent description in a paper she did in 2020 - here
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Any chance of a copy of Robyn’s paper being posted to this forum? Currently, it is locked behind a firewall.
Yes agree @jon_herries.
It all comes back to the ‘Why’ and that’s the part that can get lost in the buzz of innovation I guess.
Couldn’t get to Robyn’s paper, but would love to read it.