Developing Capacity for Innovation in Complex Systems

13 Organisation

Introduction

Organising is an interdependent facet of strategy and leadership. Leaders show the way, and organising effectively is a de facto consequence of their efforts to accomplish something. The same goes for strategy: implementing strategy requires the organisation of resources. As Czarniawska-Joerges (1992) points out, organisations – at least large ones – are complex. And they are political systems. As a result, it’s difficult to research organisations and fully understand how they organise for innovation. To say it is only due to one department, unit, or group is simply too simplistic. It may help to view a unit (for instance, an R&D unit) as a system, but that system is interdependent on other systems within the larger ...