Change Papers: A shared effort to change North Carolina's climate for innovation.

In previous posts we looked at how government needs to adapt (see Papers 8, 9 and 10) and how businesses need to do a better job of integrating design thinking into their business planning and operations (see Papers 6 and 7). In this guest post, NC DOT Deputy Secretary for Communication Ted Vaden makes some observations of relevance to both government agencies and businesses based on what he heard at last month’s Emerging Issues Forum on creativity.

Government can innovate. New technology makes it possible and smart people make it probable – if we can turn them loose on solving the problems – if we can let them innovate.

If North Carolina is going to have a conversion experience and drink the sweet tea of innovationalism, there’s plenty of work to do and plenty of ways to imagine organizing the work.