Representing enterprise innovation: A system engineering view

Many conflicting views and models of innovation have emerged in the literature, yet managers are expected to manage imovation in a systematic way. In discussing creativity, it has been suggested that it fonns something from nothing; then innovation shapes that something into products and services. The concept of innovation is understood by many as organised activities that produce outcomes that change market characteristics Some finns have had success in co-coordinating tacit and explicit elements of enterprise practices using a systems approach to provide some holistic order in a complex set of practices This paper examines various models ofinnovation and puts forward a systems approach