Innovation inside government organization: transformational leadership and innovation

With the ever-advancing innovative growth in technology, administration, business, and other critical disciplines today, more attention has been placed on the effect of this growth in the public sector. Unlike the private sector, many governments across the globe have been slow in taking up innovation for various reasons. Some of these reasons include its expensive nature and lack of ease while tending to disrupt established customs, relationships, and organizational behaviors. However, the private sector has readily taken the initiative to allow, value, and invest in innovation. The private sector has flourished through innovation by improving its services and increasing competency and efficacy after having to tear down longstanding and traditional industrial cultures and structures. More so, the private sector in areas such as retails, fashion, media, finance and banking, and others has seen exponential revenue growth through digital platforms and technologies. On the other hand, the public sector still struggles to keep up with the pace of the private sector, even though it is more crucial for the public sector and the government to lead the way. The success of any country, together with its private sector, largely depends on the government's development and efficiency. The government is the backbone of any country, economy, and capability for gross domestic income since it is responsible for the country's resources while being the monopoly providing most goods and services in many countries. Therefore, innovation is of critical importance to the public sector. However, many countries and social structures stagnate with their traditional concepts in the belief of conventional methods and the expense of innovation. Most governments fail to determine the most prioritized innovation and innovation types to invest in. Thus, through a systematic and argumentative literature review, it is imperative to decide on the importance of innovations in the government and the types and approaches to innovation that are crucial for any government.