Science and Society

Dave Snowden has some thoughts on the conditions necessary for innovation

I have long argued that there are three necessary, but not sufficient conditions for innovation to take place. These are:

1. Starvation of familiar resource, forcing you to find new approaches, doing things in a different way;
2. Pressure that forces you to engage in the problem;
3. Perspective Shift to allow different patterns and ideas to be brought into play.

And in comments on a previous post on the same site referring to the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (D-I-K-W)hierarchy he notes

"I would tend to say that K creates I from D and therefore KM is creating shared context (concepts)

What interests me here are the notions of perspective shifting and context sharing and innovation and how they are related.