The flux in the current business environment is a challenge to the sustainability of technology-driven innovations, the subsequent competitive strategies, and the business schools that train managers. The turbulent environment eroded the fantasy of control and stability granted by technocratic MBA programs and their subsequent tyrannical and rigid administrative structures.
Technology advancements opened everyone to rich, strategic, and instantaneous information while outdating the predictive odds of competitive strategies. Management Innovation (MI) sparked
cooperative strategy that assumes uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity as a new management paradigm. Through ethnomethodological design and tools, the study explored the dynamic contribution of Burundi9s universities to MI strategy as praxis. Observations and constructivist in-depth interviews and focus group discussions revealed dying intellectual habits of critical and constructive debates that dictatorship and administrative professors imposed on the university. Raising management innovators of our current organizations requires university and industry to invest in mutually strengthening MI ecosystem that guarantees a psychologically safe space for transparent management practice and honest management research. Among the critical contributions, Burundi9s business schools ought to raise critical and creative thinkers and self-aware management innovators who recognize their inherent limitations while valuing the contributions from their teams. The resulting MI Lab is an expression of the continuously interactive MI ecosystem.
Dr. Lambert Ciza