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Risk, Innovation and Values - Examining the Tensions
Table of Contents
Continuous process innovation
Innovative interactions with
stakeholders
Innovation as the reconciliation of
competing interests
Discontinuous innovation: using
existing products or services for new functions
Innovative strategies that envision
new orientations for the organization
A summary of approaches to innovation
Cultures without risk
Risk evolution over time
Risk as potential for error
Risk as danger
Risk avoidance: playing it safe
Risk as opportunity
Risk-taking as exploring
Individual and organizational
values
Public Service values
The type of work being done influences
values
Self-images of public services
