macroinnovation noun
1 : a social process through which innovation is
performed on a collective, system-wide basis by whole populations
of people in organizations
2 : (the method) a patent-pending management methodology
that makes it possible for managers to precipitate improvements
in the rate and quality of business innovation by engaging the
creative potential of whole social systems
3 : organizational learning
4 : a prescription for sustainable innovation and
high-performance knowledge processing
5 : a knowledge processing state of affairs in organizations
characterized by openness in which knowledge claims by managers
are shared openly with stakeholders in the bright light of day
(a social architecture for openness)
6 : an operating state of affairs in which an organization's
capacity to detect and solve problems, and to adapt, is optimized
7 : a prescription for avoiding Enron-like disasters
antonym microinnovation: a bureaucratic structure under which innovation
in organizations is performed on a restricted basis by small,
specialized and/or centralized groups, such as R&D or management
hierarchies, while everyone else is relegated to roles of knowledge
followership; a social state of sub-optimal learning and adaptation
in human social systems.