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Your colleagues are not dinosaurs – it's workplace routines that make innovation difficult

  • Written by Mary Tate, Research Fellow (DECRA), Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology
Your colleagues are not dinosaurs – it's workplace routines that make innovation difficultAn example of how routines can limit innovation is classes and terms that run for a set time, which limits the flexibility of educators and students.Shutterstock

In many sectors, the disruptive changes now occurring are so major that they have been described as the “fourth industrial revolution”. In response, organisations are focusing...