Developing Innovative Organizations: A Roadmap to Boost Your Innovation Potential

✍ Scribed by Benot Gailly

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Combining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to understand what innovation is, why it matters, how it can be managed and how it can help your organization to reach its objectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
About the author......Page 11
To whom the book is dedicated......Page 12
What you will not get out of the book......Page 13
Structure......Page 14
PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE INNOVATION CHALLENGE......Page 18
Short case: cell phones......Page 20
Much more than creativity......Page 22
Managing change and adoption......Page 27
Much more than new product development......Page 36
How big is the change?......Page 39
Key points to take away from Chapter 1......Page 40
Further reading......Page 41
Short case: the electric car challenge......Page 43
Global trends......Page 45
Industry trends......Page 49
Building the right capabilities......Page 52
Key points to take away from Chapter 2......Page 53
Further reading......Page 54
Synthesis of Part I......Page 56
PART II: DEVELOPING INNOVATION CAPABILITIES......Page 58
Short case: strategic innovations in the airline industry......Page 60
How to develop innovative corporate strategies......Page 62
How to develop innovative business strategies......Page 67
How innovative should your strategy be?......Page 77
Key points to take away from Chapter 3......Page 84
Further reading......Page 85
Short case: boosting entrepreneurship at Plastics Ltd.......Page 87
Innovative people: nurturing corporate entrepreneurs......Page 89
Innovative teams: building winning packs......Page 97
Innovative organizations: deliverables, cultures and structures......Page 102
Innovative ecosystems: networks of innovation......Page 115
Key points to take away from Chapter 4......Page 123
Further reading......Page 125
Short case: identifying opportunities at Materials International......Page 127
Sources of innovation......Page 129
Harvesting corporate knowledge (internal sources)......Page 139
Harvesting the environment (external sources)......Page 149
Key points to take away from Chapter 5......Page 154
Further reading......Page 156
Short case: raising funds for GeneticTools......Page 158
Introduction: the art of business planning......Page 160
Opportunity: why it is there and what it is about......Page 164
Resources: who and how much?......Page 175
Integrating uncertainties......Page 184
Key points to take away from Chapter 6......Page 191
Further reading......Page 193
Short case: changing course......Page 194
Why it's not just project management......Page 196
Adaptative management: stages, portfolios and gates......Page 199
Key points to take away from Chapter 7......Page 211
Further reading......Page 212
Synthesis of Part II......Page 213
Conclusion......Page 215
Notes and references......Page 218
Index......Page 223