How to Support Innovation for Lasting Transformation in Your Organization
Ohio State Associate Professor Michael Rayo (left), Integrated Systems Engineering, and Glenn College Associate Professor Amanda Girth, Faculty Director, Washington Programs, discuss their acquisition innovation research. (Credit: Majesti Brown)
The pursuit of innovation in the public sector often meets a roadblock: institutional norms that prioritize procedural compliance and the status quo.
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We piloted the program with the Air Force Installation Contracting Center, and we have since partnered with the U.S. Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground to surface the systemic pressures shaping innovation and acquisition agility.
“Identifying these pressures and ways to realign them is crucial if we are to reform defense acquisition and improve operational outcomes,” Philip Anton, the chief scientist of the Acquisition Innovation Research Center, told us. “The Ohio State team developed and piloted a methodology that can be adopted and used by any organization to grapple with these social challenges.”