altc 2014: Invited Speaker Session: Bryan Mathers
Channel: ALT
Date: 2014-09-11

Space to Breathe – Growing a Creative Culture around Technology (704)

How important is it to nurture a culture of innovation in your organisation, and if so, what can you do to grow it? Is innovation stifled in your organisation? With an increasingly higher drive towards efficiency, performance and conformance, are the slightly crazy ideas quickly sunk? Possibly there’s an underlying fear of innovation which means that new ideas remain as just that? And how key is leadership to all this anyway? (and how techie do leaders actually need to be)?

Small ideas can make a big difference. We’ll look at how other organisations breed a culture of innovation, and why it’s so hard to sustain. We’ll also zip through a bluffer’s guide to getting your innovation idea off the ground.

We’ll also highlight some of the themes from the recent FELTAG report, as well as looking at some emerging technologies that could support innovation in FE.