March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
275 pages
7h 38m
English
Chapter 19
An “Engine for Innovation”
Our transformation process focuses not only on technological innovations; we are looking equally critically at changes to current doctrine and organizational processes that will enable Transformation. Change must occur quickly, and accelerating change requires extricating ourselves from antiquated cycles and processes.
—General Paul Kern, commanding general, Army Materiel Command
If innovation can be characterized by the disruptive consequences resulting from the synergistic effects of multiple inventions converging in time,1 then how can this process be better understood and then accelerated in a controlled way to minimize disruption?
Several agencies and organizations with ...