Innovation Killers
Innovation Killers

Author: Clayton M. Christensen

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1633691306

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In this seminal article, innovation experts Clayton Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih explore the key reasons why companies struggle to innovate. The authors uncover common mistakes companies make—from focusing on the wrong customers to choosing the wrong products to develop—that can derail innovation efforts, and offer a better way forward for management teams who want to avoid these obstacles and get innovation right. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

The Seeds of Innovation
The Seeds of Innovation

Author: Elaine Dundon

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0814415717

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Breakthrough innovation is a prerequisite for success in almost any organization, yet the actual management of innovation has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves. Here, innovation thought leader Elaine Dundon offers a "how-to" prescription for building creative and strategic innovation skills at all levels of an organization (rather than focusing on decision-making levels only) -- and explains how to produce measurable results that translate directly to the bottom line. Using field-tested concepts and practical examples, and featuring easy-to-apply processes and concrete thinking tools, this straight-talking book provides a broadly applicable guide to innovation -- one that's not limited to a specific industry sector. Today's most comprehensive, one-stop innovation resource, it describes: * The three necessary components of innovation -- creative, strategic, and transformational thinking * Methods for applying innovative thought to existing products, processes, and business models * 90 great innovations and 90 trends to consider

The Innovation Playbook
The Innovation Playbook

Author: Nicholas J. Webb

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0470916893

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A complete roadmap to a revolution in business excellence founded on innovation Author and successful innovator Nicholas Webb believes we need a revolution in business excellence founded on innovation. In The Innovation Playbook, you will learn why innovations fail, the five rules of customer connectivity, the power of "real open" innovation and customer co-creation, the secret formula for reducing product and market risk, the magic of Future-casting, and so much more. Includes an abundance of anecdotes and examples of successful-and unsuccessful-innovation Shares the 56 ways in which innovations fail Learn the success secrets of "Innovation Superstars" Reduce innovation failure and build speed to market Includes online training a ($150.00 value) that will help you put the theory into practice, The Innovation Playbook will prepare you to get your CIS Certification, as well as to implement a successful innovation culture in corporate life.

The Handbook of Service Innovation
The Handbook of Service Innovation

Author: Renu Agarwal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 858

ISBN-13: 144716590X

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Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service areas, including health, education, tourism, hospitality, telecommunications, and retail. It addresses contemporary issues through conceptual and applied contributions across industry, academia, and government, providing insights for improved practice and policy making. Featuring cutting-edge research contributions, practical examples, implementations and a select number of case studies across several growth service industries, this book also includes examples of failed service innovation attempts in order to demonstrate a balanced view of the topic and to make clear the pitfalls to be avoided. Culminating in a suggested step-by-step guide to enable service organization’s managers to understand and implement the concepts of service innovation and manage its evolutionary processes effectively, this book will prove a valuable resource to a wide reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to create a deeper scientific foundation for service design and engineering, service experience and marketing, and service management and innovation. Includes endorsements from professionals in the field of service innovation.

Radical Innovation Challenges: Corporate To Climate
Radical Innovation Challenges: Corporate To Climate

Author: Joe Tidd

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 180061411X

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Business and management approaches to innovation tend to focus on incremental changes to existing products and processes, such as new product development, design-thinking, and business model innovation. In contrast, Radical Innovation Challenges focusses on radical and breakthrough innovation, and identifies its distinct sources, organization, processes, and outcomes. This book illustrates conceptual models and practical methods to better understand and manage radical innovation, and provides an argument for an iterative coupling process, between knowledge-push and demand-pull challenges and opportunities.The book draws upon a distinct interdisciplinary body of knowledge to provide a crucial insight into the latest research and experience, and demonstrates how radical innovation practices and policies can be applied to fundamental corporate and social challenges such as climate change.

Innovation to the Core
Innovation to the Core

Author: Peter Skarzynski

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1422102513

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Building on the work of strategy guru Gary Hamel, this guide shows organizations how to move innovation from a buzz word to a core competency. Skarzynski, a consultant on international growth and strategy, and Gibson, a global business strategist, draw on a wealth of examples from real companies including GE, Procter & Gamble, Nokia, and IBM. They provide frameworks, step-by-step action lists, and other practical tools for improving an organization's capacity for innovation by mobilizing the imagination of employees, customers, and business partners.

Handbook on Innovation and Project Management
Handbook on Innovation and Project Management

Author: Andrew Davies

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-10-06

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1789901804

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Identifying the origins and evolution of innovation and project management, this unique Handbook explains why and how the two fields have grown and developed as separate disciplines, highlighting how and why they are now converging. It explores the theoretical and practical connections between the management of innovations and projects, examining the close relationship between the disciplines.

Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture
Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture

Author: Amitava Rakshit

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-05-04

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1000574083

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Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture: Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability is an invaluable resource focussing on the current state of knowledge and scientific advances about the complex and intertwined issues of innovation and how they relate to livelihood of small-scale farmers. This book exposes readers with a holistic overview on how agriculture is most associated with the development and transfer of technologies to farmers and their participation in research and development initiatives to improve the relevancy and usefulness of its outputs and innovation which is not well documented. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: Recent scientific advances on agricultural innovations for small farmers. Emphasizes on opportunities and constraints of techno-institutional paradigms. Highlight low-cost and eco-friendly interventions. Case studies on various innovations in agriculture spanning the different agricultural gamut.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Author: J. R. Bessant

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 1394219709

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"This book has been developed specifically for students of Business and Management Studies, and for Science and Engineering students studying courses on innovation and/or entrepreneurship. It is designed to complement our best-selling text Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change (Eighth edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2024), which is focused more on the needs of specialist postgraduate and post-experience audiences. In this fourth edition, we were inspired by the pioneering scholars of entrepreneurship and innovation, such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, to attempt to re-integrate these two fields. For too long the two subjects have diverged into narrow disciplines, each suffering as a result: entrepreneurship has become preoccupied with small business creation and innovation dominated by new product development. In this text, we aim to reunite the study and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation. In Innovation and Entrepreneurship (fourth edition), we continue to take a unique position at the interface of these two fields, rather than a traditional narrow focus on one or the other. On the one hand, the Innovation field has a bias towards larger firms and formal processes, whereas on the other hand, the Entrepreneurship discipline is dominated by a focus on individuals, startups and small firms, but with little emphasis on the role of innovation. In contrast, here we adopt a view that aims to identify and explore the intersections and interactions between these two fields, such as entrepreneurship in larger organizations, and innovation in new enterprises and smaller firms. Integrating themes include social, sustainable and digital innovation and entrepreneurship"--