Driving Innovation from Within : A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs / Kaihan Krippendorff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krippendorff, Kaihan, Author.

Contributor:

McGrath, Rita Gunther, Contributor.

Series:

Columbia Business School Publishing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual capital--Management.

Creative ability in business.

New products.

Technological innovations--Management.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are society's main source of innovation. Young founders leave college with a big idea, get to work in a garage, and build something that changes the world. Typical corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, are blocked from making transformative discoveries.In Driving Innovation from Within, strategist and advisor Kaihan Krippendorff disproves one of today's biggest business myths to highlight lessons for innovators and leaders. He reveals how many of the modern world's most impactful creations were invented by passionate employee innovators. If it were left up to go-it-alone entrepreneurs, we would not have mobile phones, personal computers, or e-mail. Distilling more than 150 interviews with internal innovators and leading experts along with insights from the latest research and today's most successful companies, from Tencent and Amazon to Mastercard and Starbucks, Krippendorff lays out a step-by-step playbook to unlock innovation from the inside. He maps the barriers that frustrate efforts to disrupt from within and provides tools to remove them, detailing how visionary leaders can create islands of freedom inside an organization to activate existing employees' potential and beat startups at their own game. Driving Innovation from Within is a practical and inspiring guide to leadership from all levels for those who want the fulfillment of changing the world without leaving their job in order to do it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter One. The Real Innovators Among Us

Chapter Two. Six Attributes and Seven Barriers

Chapter Three. Intent: Choosing to See and Seize Opportunities

Chapter Four. Need: Knowing Where to Look

Chapter Five. Options: How to Generate Disruptive Ideas

Chapter Six. Value Blockers: Neutralizing "Corporate Antibodies"

Chapter Seven. Act: Getting Permission to Experiment

Chapter Eight. Team: Building an Agile Team

Chapter Nine. Environment: Creating Islands of Freedom

Chapter Ten. For Leaders: How to Unleash Internal Innovation

Appendix A. Are Entrepreneurs the Innovators?

Appendix B. Value Blockers Checklist

Appendix C. Team Frameworks

Appendix D. Innovative Outperformers

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780231548366

0231548362

OCLC:

1104860672