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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Innovators at Risk in the Public Service
Author : Stuart Conger
Published in: Challenge Social Innovation
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
Innovation is a threat to the status quo in the public service and therefore there are many barriers for the innovator. Several of the barriers will be illustrated including: (1) top management desires innovation but is stymied by special interests deeper in the organization; (2) management thinks its innovative by instituting only incremental change; (3) management initiates an innovation without adequate support; (4) the apparent buy-in by various levels of management masks their opposition; and (5) the arrival of new management with a new agenda. Innovators have a short life expectancy in government.