Innovation Finale

Disruption and Beyond

Professor David Boyd

Birmingham City University
Where we are so far
Change thinking, cope with innovation, manage innovation

• Economics: Creative destruction • Analysing Innovations:

characteristics, context,
• 1st to 5th Generation process
implementation
• Government strategies • Construction: loosely coupled,
• Systems thinking dynamic capability
• Multi level perspective • Complexity: symbolic, financial,
• Socio-technical transitions social, functional
• Learning and change • Client: society, business, users,
• Learning styles: people different industry
• Personal Construct theory: • Building not about building
• Revising constructs and emotion • X As a service
• Double loop Learning • Platforms
• Learning Organisation • Implementation as PM of two
connected projects
Your journey into future
•Publisher : 
•Currency
•(29 Sept. 2020)
Disruptive
Innovation
The Innovator’s Dilemma
• The Innovator's Dilemma: A company which is in an existing business and
listening to its existing customers feels that there is no need for anything
new.
• Should it invest its money to
• make new products that its best customers can use and that would
improve the company’s profit margins"
• Sustaining technologies – meet the needs of customers today and the ones
who are paying
or
• invest its money to create new poorer quality products that none of its
current customers can use and challenge its profit margins.
• Disruptive technologies – come from innovators who keep improving the
product performance till it comes "from below" and starts hurting the
entrenched incumbents.
OECD megatrends
OECD future technologies
Construction Megatrends
Transformation Issues
My debate about practice

Abstract Practical
Reasoning Coping

Knowledge Expertise
Management Management
Practice is Hard: need a ‘theory’
• Practice is Becoming
• Not explicit; difficult to explain
• Not just rational – no complete complete knowledge
• Socially defined
• Profession – do what is declared
• Performance – do what is expected
• Outcome – rightness
• Personally defined
• Embodiment
• See what needs to be seen: discriminating perception
• Confidence to act; cope with outcomes
Learning Manager

Practitioner

Teacher Learner

Researcher

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Conclusion
• Your Future is Being Developed Now; megatrends
• Abstraction allows us to change the way think: new new
• Innovation economic as much as improvement
• Construction involves thinking and practice
• Practice is more complex and more difficult that abstraction of
practice
• However:
• Transformation will take place
• See it, Understand it, Prepare for it, develop your thinking
• Learn to cope in Practice
• You are your own future champions; learning PM