A
Topographical Map of the Innovation Landscape |
This paper describes the construction and use of a topographical map
of the innovation landscape. The purpose of the map is to provide a
holistic view of the key factors that enable innovation (the
so-called 'landmarks'), how well they are aligned to support the
particular type of innovation the organization needs to pursue, and
to identify possible gaps. |
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An
Innovative Manager's Check-List |
This check-list has been designed to be of use to supervisors,
managers, and project leaders contemplating or implementing
innovation or wishing to manage a project in a way which will
enhance innovation. Its purpose is to alert you and to guide you in
confronting issues which are key to successful innovation. |
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Comparison of Innovation Methodologies and TRIZ |
Based on the comparison and contrast of the strength and weakness
between many common innovation methodologies and TRIZ, it is pointed
that TRIZ is the most powerful systematic innovation methodology
among them, especially in Mechatronics domain. 2005 |
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Creating an Environment for Innovation |
Once your company has made a conscious decision to encourage
innovation, where and how should you start? In this article, one
assumes that one has agreed on a consistent definition of what it
means to innovate, and that one has the intention of involving as
many in the company as possible and appropriate. |
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Customer-Controlled Innovation |
Collaboration with customers is transforming product-development
strategies and unlocking new ways for companies to innovate. 2007 |
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Extending Innovation Beyond the Corporate Boundary |
Amy Muller and Liisa Valikangas discuss how innovation can be
extended outside the corporate boundary through recombining
competencies with alliance partners and through exploring new
opportunity space with others. |
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Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to
Innovation Activity? |
In this paper the authors examine the importance of financial and
other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands. They report
results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms’ decision to
abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down, or not to start an
innovative project. 2008 |
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Five Ways That Standardization Can Lead to Innovation |
“At a time when we are constantly being told to value the new and
the different, it may come as a surprise to learn that the standard,
the shared and the common can be strong drivers of transformation,” |
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Flipping Orthodoxies: Overcoming Insidious Obstacles to Innovation |
When it comes to innovation, sometimes organizations need to get out
of their own way. Orthodoxies, or tightly held beliefs that guide a
company’s decisions, can be dangerous to a company’s success |
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Ground-breaking Innovation Management Concepts from the Past 25
Years |
The authors have selected the six concepts that in their opinion
have fundamentally shaped the meaning of innovation management in
the past 25 years. 2011 |
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Guide for Managing Innovation - Part 1: Diagnosis |
This guide was designed by CIDEM as a tool aimed at small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them assess their capacity
for innovation. |
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Guide for Managing Innovation - Part 2: Conclusions |
This guide was designed by CIDEM as a tool aimed at small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them assess their capacity
for innovation. |
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How
innovative are you really? |
When “back to the stone-age” may not be too bad after all. One of
the most stable trends in recent years has been the increasing
product homogeneity in many markets. Products that were once clearly
profiled specialties are becoming more and more commodity-like in
the view of the customers. pdf-file 2003 |
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Identifying and Removing Barriers to Innovation |
This article outlines the four common barriers of innovation and
offers advices on how to overcome them. |
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Impacting Climate for Innovation: Can CEOs Make a Difference? |
This study suggests that an essential component of effective
leadership is the ability to reflect on objectives, strategies, and
processes in a way that influences the attitudes and behavior of
employees towards innovation, and then planning and implementing
change. |
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Innovation and risk management: a recipe for improving performance |
The purpose of this report is to provide a basis for reflection on
current practice in this area and to make some suggestions for next
steps. In looking at organisations that excel, we identified
ingredients that appear to be common to those that achieve success
through innovation and well-judged risk taking. |
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Innovation in Germany |
An article in German from Manager Magazin, a leading German
management periodical, on the problem of innovation in Germany and
its relationship to leadership and the German culture's reluctance
to engage with leadership since World War II. |
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Innovation Traps |
Risks and Challenges in Thinking About Innovation. 2003 |
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Innovation via Global Route: |
Proposing a Reference Model for Chances and Challenges of Global
Innovation Processes. Innovations in today’s “globalized” world are
hardly feasible in isolation. |
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Innovation: Are You Focused on the Perfect over the Optimal? |
Innovation is more than grand themes and big ideas. Much more. 2012 |
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Innovation: measuring it to manage it |
Many executives struggle to manage innovation as they would other
business processes. Most exasperating is the lack of a practical way
of measuring innovation effectiveness and efficiency. In this
article the authors provide a success formula to design and deploy
meaningful key indicators to drive innovation and business
performance now and in the future. |
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Internal Markets |
Emerging Governance Structures for Innovation. Why do management
hierarchies fail innovation? |
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Introduction to Innovation |
A short series about terminology, importance, problems, benefits
etc. |
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Managing Innovation in Service Industries |
An Online-Book with case studies |
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Managing Innovation through Corporate Venturing |
New management models can help a firm commercialize ideas that would
otherwise languish |
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Money Isn’t Everything |
Lavish R&D budgets don’t guarantee performance. A new Booz Allen
Hamilton study of the world’s 1,000 biggest spenders reveals the
value of an innovation dollar — and the basics of a better strategy.
2005 |
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New
Paradigms: Innovative Forms of Organization |
Companies that seek to lead in innovation need to look beyond the
R&D lab. Liisa Välikangas identifies three emerging organizational
forms that have the potential to alter the competitive landscape in
significant ways. Pdf-file |
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Open Innovation: No Longer an Option |
To compete effectively, companies will increasingly have to look
beyond their internal walls for sources of advantage. It’s
increasingly clear that open innovation is no longer an option.
Businesses that don’t harness its power risk being left behind. |
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Open Source - The Ignorance of Crowds |
The open source model can be an important factor in innovation, but
it comes with limitations. 2007 |
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Organizing for Innovation |
Organizing for Innovation: Technology and Intelligent Capacities,
Article by Michael D. McMaster |
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Organizing for Innovation in Large Firms |
Determining how a firm can best be organized to facilitate
innovation is a topic of central importance to managers and
academics alike and is thus the focus of this working paper.
abstract, full text available for download |
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Quotes |
Nothing scientific, but if you need a quote about innovation - there
is a great variety |
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Radical Innovation and Design Research |
Global competition has forced companies to redesign themselves. This
general motivation in industry has been the reason that companies
have started to gather knowledge how to innovate their innovation
business system. Pdf |
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Repetition Leads To Innovation |
The role of recursive conversation in product development |
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Risk, Innovation and Values - Examining the Tensions |
This paper explores the tensions among innovation, values and
risk-taking that public sector managers face when they make
decisions about uncertain outcomes. The paper makes four suggestions
for consideration by Risk Management Division. |
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Strategic Innovation to Enable Innovation? |
Amy Muller and Nate Hutchins say a productive, sustainable
electronic innovation platform is much more than a site to collect
ideas. |
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Strengthen Your Organization with Creative Destruction: |
Dismantle your old patterns and habits while creating flexible,
adaptable, agile systems. It's the key to innovation! |
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Succeeding with Your Bright Ideas |
There are many ways to come up with better ideas. But, success means
more than that. |
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Taking Chances: Finding Ways to Embrace Innovation, Risk and Control
in the Public Sector Organizations |
This document sets out five principles intended to support public
sector managers, auditors and legislators in a common purpose: the
application of sound management practices in the related areas of
innovation, risk management and control. |
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The
Consequences of Innovation |
Although innovation is frequently heralded as the driver of the ‘new
economy’, its myriad claims have yet to be substantiated. The paper
surveys the literature and addresses some of the claims
skeptically. |
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The
Culture of Innovation: What Makes San Francisco Bay Area Companies
Different? |
The Bay Area is famous for its long history of leadership in
computing, semiconductors, software, biotechnology, the Internet and
other innovation-based industries. But what makes it unique, beyond
its talent base and access to capital? What exactly is the often
celebrated “West Coast culture of innovation”? 2012 |
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The
Ethics of Innovation and the Development of Innovative Projects |
This paper addresses the question of what are the basic ethical
principles that ought to govern the development and implementation
of innovative public sector programs or policies. pdf 2003 |
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The
Four Levels of Innovation |
Assess the Time, Effort, and Resources Necessary to Join the Ranks
of Innovation. |
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The
Future of Innovation Management: The Next 10 Years |
Literature is rife with books and articles on the history of
innovation management. But what about the future? This article
describes the five major innovation management concepts to watch in
the next ten years. 2011 |
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The
Innovation Imperative |
Recessions and times of uncertainty present unusual opportunities.
In these times, companies need to seize new opportunities not by
retrenching, but by rebalancing: focusing on the right innovation
projects and then executing those innovations more efficiently,
effectively and creatively. |
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The
Innovator's Solution |
Seagate Technology has developed a set of five operating principles
that allows it to out-innovate even the most nimble young
competitor. The result: an innovator that poses a dilemma for its
rivals. |
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The
Well-Designed Global R&D Network |
A new study by Booz Allen Hamilton and INSEAD finds that
organizations benefit when they configure their innovation networks
for cost and manage them for value. 2006 |
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Transformation by Radical Innovation |
Turning Megatrends and Emerging Technologies into Growth
Opportunities. Is your company sufficiently innovative? Most CEOs
and CTOs would like to say yes, although Arthur D. Little’s recent
Global Innovation Excellence study reveals that most companies are
focusing on incremental, rather than radical, innovation. |
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What Global Winners Teach Us about Innovation |
In this special report on innovation in India’s Business Today
magazine, the authors from Monitor describe key principles of
innovation used by successful companies to create new ways of doing
business. 2011 |
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When Innovation Follows Promise - Why service innovation is
different, and why that matters |
This executive briefing authored by Ivanka Visnjic, Taija Turunen
and Andy Neely from the Cambridge Service Alliance, looks at the
process of service innovation in an attempt to improve the way that
service and product-service providers develop new services. |
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