Building the Future
Building the Future

Author: Amy Edmondson

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1626564205

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Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about--innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable. This demands "big teaming": intense collaboration across professions and industries that may have completely different mindsets and even be antagonistic to each other. To do this successfully requires practicing new forms of leadership that combine an expansive vision with incremental action--not an easy balance. To reveal how pioneers build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of Living PlanIT, an award-winning "smart city" start-up with a breathtakingly ambitious goal: building a showcase high-tech city from scratch to pilot its software. This meant a joint effort spanning a truly disparate group of software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, construction companies, and technology corporations. We get to know Living PlanIT's leaders and follow them and their partners through cycles of hope, exhaustion, disillusionment, pragmatism, and renewal. There are powerful lessons here for anyone, in any industry, seeking to transform the world.

Ten Types of Innovation
Ten Types of Innovation

Author: Larry Keeley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-07-15

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1118571398

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Innovation principles to bring about meaningful and sustainable growth in your organization Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, including Cirque du Soleil, early IBM mainframes, the Ford Model-T, and many more, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful groupings—the Ten Types of Innovation—that provided insight into innovation. The Ten Types of Innovation explores these insights to diagnose patterns of innovation within industries, to identify innovation opportunities, and to evaluate how firms are performing against competitors. The framework has proven to be one of the most enduring and useful ways to start thinking about transformation. Details how you can use these innovation principles to bring about meaningful—and sustainable—growth within your organization Author Larry Keeley is a world renowned speaker, innovation consultant, and president and co-founder of Doblin, the innovation practice of Monitor Group; BusinessWeek named Keeley one of seven Innovation Gurus who are changing the field The Ten Types of Innovation concept has influenced thousands of executives and companies around the world since its discovery in 1998. The Ten Types of Innovation is the first book explaining how to implement it.

Building Innovation
Building Innovation

Author: David Gann

Publisher: Thomas Telford

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780727725967

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David Gann considers the changes in the construction and use of the built environment that are currently emerging, and how innovative practices and materials can be integrated into the construction process

Building Innovation Capability in Organizations
Building Innovation Capability in Organizations

Author: Mile Terziovski

Publisher: Imperial College Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1860949991

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Global competition, shorter product lifecycles and increasingly demanding customers are creating significant pressures for the creation of innovative organizations. By examining eight case studies in various industry sectors in Europe, Australia, Japan and Thailand, this book provides a qualitative explanation of the complex relationships between innovation capability, e-commerce, sustainable development and new product development. The book explores how organizations develop innovation capability through the application of e-commerce, sustainable development-orientation, and new product development in order to gain competitive advantage. This knowledge will help managers, academics and policy-makers understand OC what works, and why and how it worksOCO in creating innovation-driven organizations from an international perspective, thereby providing an integrated approach to innovation management. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction (84 KB). Contents: Development of an Integrated Innovation Capability Model; Strategic Shift from Product Orientation to Innovation Solutions Capability in the German Biotechnology Industry: Sartorius AG; Managing Strategic Change Through Mainstream and Newstream Innovation at Eurocopter, France; Leveraging Innovation Capabilities at Caterpillar Underground Mining (UGM) Pty Ltd; Drivers of Innovation Capability at Sun Microsystems (SMS); Development and Exploitation of Innovation Capability at a Defence Project Engineering Company (DPEC); Drivers of Innovation Capability for Effective Sustainable Development: Best Practice at Vaisala; Developing Innovation Capability Through Intellectual Property Strategy in the Australian Biotechnology Industry: Starpharma; Development of Innovation Capability at Invincible Company in Thailand; Multiple Cross-Case Analysis: Conclusions and Implications. Readership: Managers, academic lecturers, and management researchers; as a supplementary textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates in innovation and technology management."

Building Innovation Pipelines through Computer-Aided Innovation
Building Innovation Pipelines through Computer-Aided Innovation

Author: Denis Cavallucci

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-06-29

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 3642221823

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 5.4. Working Conference on Computer- Aided Innovation, CAI 2011, held in Strasbourg, France, in June/July 2011. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They cover a broad range of topics from basic research to industrial applications of computer-aided innovation systems.

Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialisation
Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialisation

Author: Rasmus Lema

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1000435709

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This book argues that renewable electrification in developing countries provides important opportunities for local economic development, but new pathways are required for turning these opportunities into successful reality. Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialisation offers a novel input into the debate on development of capabilities for sustainable industrialisation and delivers key insights for both researchers and policy makers when it comes to the question of how to increase the economic co-benefits of renewables expansion. The chapters in the book use a tailored analytical framework in their studies of renewable electrification efforts in Kenya and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. They draw on a mix of project, sector and country level case studies to address questions such as: What capabilities are developed through on-going renewable electrification projects in developing economies? How can the expansion of renewable electrification be supported in a way that also encourages sustainable economic development? What role do international linkages (South-South and North-South) play and what role should they play in the greening of energy systems in developing economies? The authors provide a new understanding of how green transformation and sustainable industrialisation can be combined, highlighting the opportunities and constraints for local capability building and the scope for local policy action. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of development studies, energy studies, sustainability and sustainable development, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in development organisations and national governments. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003054665, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The Foundation for a New Approach to Implement Building Innovation
The Foundation for a New Approach to Implement Building Innovation

Author: Civil Engineering Research Foundation

Publisher: ASCE Publications

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9780784401262

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Prepared by the Partnership for Building Innovation project, which is sponsored by CERF;ØNational Institute of Standards and Technology; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This report documents the efforts of the Partnership for Building Innovation to lay the foundation for developing a national strategy for public?private sector partnerships in implementing technology and systems innovation in the buildings sector. The project also explores the problems inherent in the current approaches to introducing building innovation and investigates the needs and perspectives of key stakeholders. This report suggests a preliminary framework for implementing innovation, centered around an enhanced evaluation process with participation from the technical, building owner, and insurance communities.

Building Innovative Teams
Building Innovative Teams

Author: C. Harris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-03-20

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0230001149

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Innovation is critical for securing competitive advantage and achieving business success. Yet, for many organisations it remains elusive. This book adopts a unique approach to innovation by focussing on how teams may deliver innovations capable of transforming their company's performance. The book starts with the dynamics of innovation and explores the creative processes. It moves onto examine how teams can collaborate to create innovative team values and also shows how a company can organise and lead innovative teams. Finally, including many exercises, the book shows how to design innovative team programmes and measure performance.

Building a Culture of Innovation
Building a Culture of Innovation

Author: Cris Beswick

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0749474483

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SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Category Being a truly innovative company is more than dreaming up new products and services by external consultants and internal taskforces. Staying one step ahead of the competition requires you to embed innovation into your organizational culture. Innovation needs to be embodied in everything that gets done by everyone who works there. By changing your organizational culture to one that supports Building a Culture of Innovation, you will remove the barriers that stop you responding quickly and agilely to changing market conditions and opportunities for growth. Building a Culture of Innovation presents a practical framework that you can follow to design and embed a culture of innovation in your business.The six-step Innovation Culture Change Framework offers a structured process to make change stick, from assessing your organization's innovation-readiness to leading a managed change process that will foster innovation at each level. It includes case studies from international organizations which have shifted their focus to an innovation culture, including Prudential, Qinetiq, Octopus Investments, Cisco, Siemens, BrightMove Media, Waitrose and Feefo. Supported with downloadable resources, Building a Culture of Innovation is an essential read for business leaders and change implementation teams who want to place innovation at the heart of their business strategy.