As someone who finds Dave Snowden's writing generally thought-provoking, I was glad to see that he recently discussed innovation with an Australian government network that focuses on continuous improvement.
Although Dave seems to be more focused on disruptive improvement in the Complex domain, and continuous improvement seems to be more consonant with the Complicated domain, Dave's talk was an intriguing critique of the dangers of using analytical and/or best practice approaches to innovation. Although I found some of the rationale for his conclusions unconvincing, the overall message was a refreshing change from the Complicated/Analytical approaches to innovation usually seen in large organizations.
A nice summary is here. It contains a link to the (partial) podcast. And, here's Dave's summary: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2008/10/to_distinguish_the_ordinary.php#more
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