A case study validation of the application of a generalised equation of innovation in complex adaptive systems

Abstract

This article leverages a mathematical model of innovation for complex adaptive systems (CAS) to explore, ex post facto, organisational innovation investigations conducted by the first author at Stanford University Medical Center. Tapping into the meta-level and more varied sources of innovation, as illustrated by a generalised equation of innovation, requires that habitual patterns along the physical, vital, mental, and integral dimensions be overcome. The experimental work used frameworks and software consistent with the generalised equation of innovation in CAS to assist in overcoming such patterns at the personal, team, and departmental levels, thereby allowing deeper sources of innovation to come into being.

Hierdie artikel gebruik ʼn wiskundige model van innovasie bedoel vir ingewikkelde aanpasbare stelsels om, ex post facto, organisasiewye innovasie ondersoeke by Stanford University Medical Center te ondersoek. Deur gebruik te maak van die meta-vlak en meer gevarieerde bronne van innovasie, soos deur die veralgemeende innovasie-vergelyking geïllustreer, vereis dat gewoonte-patrone in die fisiese, lewensbelangrike-, verstandelike- en integrale-dimensies oorkom moet word. Die eksperimentele werk het gebruik gemaak van raamwerke en sagteware in ooreenstemming met die veralgemeende vergelyking van innovasie in ingewikkelde aanpasbare stelsels om sulke gewoonte-patrone op persoonlike-, span- en departementele vlakke te oorkom. Sodoende is dieper bronne van innovasie toegelaat om na vore te kom.