By contrast, innovation is a specific form of change. Its nature is explored in more
detail in Chapter 7. Put simply, however, innovation is discontinuous change.
Rather than representing continuity with the recent past it represents a break
with the past. What had been acceptable or adequate for the provision of public
services in the past will no longer be so – their provision will require new structures
or skills that mark a break with this past experience.This discontinuity might
involve the creation of a new organization, the meeting of a newly established need