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Innovation Leadership Forum  The ILF is an organisation dedicated to the creation, sharing and application of knowledge on innovation. It is focused primarily on large organisations. Through its activities it facilitates:
Just a thought...
In the context of innovation learning and knowledge are some interesting concepts; learning is a requirement for innovation: unless we learn and understand something we have not understood before, and unless we challenge existing wisdom (and thereby creating new wisdom) we probably will not innovate. As to knowledge, we need some knowledge as innovation does not happen ‘out of the blue’ but generally through connecting previously unconnected bodies of knowledge. At the same time there is an issue with relying on our knowledge too much: it can make us blind for other possibilities, for things we do not (yet) understand. I don’t know about you, but in the past my relationship with knowledge was a somewhat frustrated one: I was very much with Goethe’s Faust who said: “That we in truth can nothing know! That in my heart like fire doth burn.” – the more we learn the more we are becoming aware of things that we do not know. When with a group of rather fascinating people full of wisdom and knowledge I started to feel rather small and upset about my own lack of knowledge. I shared this with a friend who replied, “I do actually find this really exciting: to think of all that knowledge out there and all the things I can yet go and explore!” What a different viewpoint from mine it was, and how liberating. And one which I will not hesitate to adopt. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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