Imprint: Triarchy Press
Published: 29th April 2016
List Price: £15.00
Format: Casebound hardback
Extent: 120pp.
Size: 19.4 x 14.4 cm
ISBN: 978-1-911193-00-5 
Tags: Education, IFF, Innovation

Transformative Innovation
A Guide to Practice and Policy
A playbook for pragmatic visionaries
Graham Leicester
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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. 

Transformative Innovation 
A Guide to Practice and Policy

​​Graham Leicester
​An innovation pocketbook for the
public, social, cultural & civic sector
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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Transformative Innovation ........................... 9
The Practice of Transformative Innovation ............................... 9
The Capacity to Innovate .......................................................... 11
Practice and Theory .................................................................. 15
Ten Characteristics of Transformative Innovation ................... 17
Case Study: SHINE ~ Changing the Culture of Care ................. 21
Further Reading ......................................................................... 30

CHAPTER 2: Knowing .................................................... 31
Complexity Is Your Friend .......................................................... 31
Five Principles ............................................................................ 33
Two Loops .................................................................................. 38
A Variety of Prompts .................................................................. 41
Further Reading ......................................................................... 42

CHAPTER 3: Imagining .................................................. 43
Imagining Social Change ........................................................... 43
Three Horizons and Social Change ........................................... 44
Convening the Future ................................................................ 47
Dilemmas ................................................................................... 52
Imaginary Islands ...................................................................... 56
Further Reading ......................................................................... 57

CHAPTER 4: Being ........................................................ 59
The Human System ................................................................... 59
Organising for Action................................................................. 61
Managing the Process ............................................................... 65
Sustaining the People ............................................................... 67
Further Reading ......................................................................... 70

CHAPTER 5: Doing ........................................................ 71
Frameworks for Action .............................................................. 71
Social Learning .......................................................................... 72
The Buddhist and the Broker .................................................... 75
Taking Action ............................................................................. 77
Further Reading ......................................................................... 84

CHAPTER 6: Enabling .................................................... 85
A Compelling Vision of the Third Horizon ................................. 86
Encouragement for Pioneers .................................................... 87
A Realistic View of the Policy Landscape ................................. 89
Evaluation Based on Third Horizon Intentions ........................ 91
Financing Transformative Innovation ...................................... 94
Further Reading ......................................................................... 98

CHAPTER 7: Supporting ................................................ 99
Everything Flows ....................................................................... 99
Patterns of Renewal ................................................................. 101
Cultural Renewal ..................................................................... 103
Infrastructure for Transformative Innovation ........................ 106
The Permission Slip ................................................................. 109
Appendix: The IFF Clan ............................................................ 113