Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally

Paul C. Light

ISBN 10: 0787940984 / ISBN 13: 9780787940980

Edité par John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

A propos de cet article

Written for nonprofit and public organizations, this work shows how to innovate successfully. The book is divided into four parts: organizational environment, internal bureaucracy, leadership, and management systems. The author shows how each of these work in practice, and with one another. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN1; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 551. . 1998. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally
• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0787940984
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780787940980
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Paul Light has captured the spirit of innovation. It is not aboutspectacular acts by individuals who labor against the odds, butabout the hard work of building organizations in which innovationis expected and possible. It is about tilling the soil so thatideas can flourish. Anyone who wants to take their organizationforward toward natural innovation should read this book.
--Walter F. Mondale

Any organization can innovate once. The challenge is to innovatetwice, thrice, and more?to make innovation a part of daily goodpractice. This book shows how nonprofit and governmentorganizations can transform the single, occasional act ofinnovating into an everyday occurrence by forging a culture ofnatural innovation.

Filled with real success stories and practical lessons learned, Sustaining Innovation offers examples of how organizations can takethe first step toward innovativeness, advice on how to survive theinevitable mistakes along the way, and tools for keeping the edgeonce the journey is complete.

Light also provides a set of simple suggestions for fitting thelessons to the different management pressures facing the governmentand nonprofit sector. Unlike the private sector, where innovationneeds only to be profitable to be worth doing, government andnonprofit innovation must be about doing something worthewhile. Itmust challenge the prevailingwisdom and advance the public good.Sustaining Innovation gives nonprofit and government managers acoherent, easily understood model for making this kind ofinnovation a natural reality.

À propos de l?auteur

PAUL C. LIGHT is director of the Public Policy Program at The Pew Charitable Trusts. He has taught at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University, and was most recently associate dean and professor of planning and public affairs at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is the award-winning author of The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work, 1945-1995 (1997), Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability (1995), and many other books, monographs, and articles.