The executive guide to innovation : turning good ideas into great results / Jane Keathley [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keathley, Jane.

Keathley, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability in business.

Technological innovations--Management.

Technological innovations.

Business enterprises--Technological innovations.

Business enterprises.

Success in business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : ASQ Quality Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is your organization's level of innovation where you think it should be today?Now is the time to shape your future through innovation management. This book provides a wealth of information, tools, techniques, models, approaches, and methodologies that are all specifically designed for excellence in innovation, solution generation, and execution.Within these pages you will find innovation concepts, methods, and case studies that build upon the quality body of knowledge to drive innovation. The successful application of these concepts will help you to be successful in the years to come. In addition to the hands-on material presented, the book also provides advice and counsel on how to align a growth-based strategy with all functions of the organization, how to create a culture for ideas and growth, how to acquire and retain the right mix of resources, and how to sustain what you've built over time. Innovation is quality for tomorrow. Use The Executive Guide to Innovation to conquer new challenges and seize new opportunities as you move into your future!

Contents:

Intro

Title page

CIP data

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Innovation?

Chapter 1: The Innovation Imperative

1.1 Building the Business Case for Innovation

1.2 What Is Innovation?

Product Innovation

Process Innovation

Business Model Innovation

1.3 Improvement versus Innovation

1.4 Types of Organizations

Chapter 2: Leading Innovation

Chapter 3: An Innovative Vision and Culture

Chapter 4: Case Study: Apex Composites

4.1 Take-Aways

Chapter 5: Innovation Strategy

5.1 Holistic Approach to Strategic Innovation

5.1.1 Multidisciplinary, Beyond the Board Room

5.1.2 Innovation As a Manageable Process

5.1.3 Both Breakthrough and Incremental, Intentional and Serendipitous

5.1.4 Innovation Potential versus Appetite for Risk

5.2 Determining the Firm's "Boundaries"

5.2.1 Mission/Vision, Now versus Future

5.2.2 Core Competencies

5.2.3 Core Technologies

5.2.4 Competitive Advantages (Existing), Strengths/Weaknesses

5.2.5 Geographic and Geopolitical

5.3 Market and Competitive Analysis

5.3.1 Porter's Five Forces

5.3.2 Competing on Innovation/Features versus Price

5.3.3 Signs/Metrics for Strategy Decay in the Forces

5.3.4 Constraints on the Firm

5.3.5 Environmental Scan

5.4 Positioning within the Market/Industry

5.4.1 Product versus Process Innovation and Product Maturity

5.4.2 Consumer and Customer Insight/VOC, Unspoken Needs

5.4.3 Threats/Opportunities

5.4.4 Industry Foresight/Emerging Trends and Opportunities

5.5 Organizational Readiness

5.5.1 Mission/Vision

5.5.2 Culture

5.5.3 Strategic Alignment

5.5.4 Innovation Roles, Internal/External, Open/Closed Innovation

5.5.5 Internal Processes and Disciplined Implementation

Chapter 6: Building the Innovative Organization.

6.1 What to Build?

6.2 How to Build

6.3 Communication

Downward Communication

Upward Communication

Outward Communication

Inward Communication

6.4 Structure

6.5 Infrastructure

6.6 Style

6.7 Measurement

6.8 People

Senior Managers

Innovation Manager

Business Unit Managers

Quality Managers

Mid-Level Managers

Employees

6.9 The Innovation Infrastructure

Chapter 7: Case Study: Assessing an Organization's Strategic Innovation Status

7.1 The Tools

7.1.1 The Innovation Quadrant

7.1.2 The Hothouse (Creativity)Assessment Instrument

7.1.3 The Innovation Diagnostic Assessment

7.1.4 Framework for Sustainable Innovation

7.2 Innovation Diagnostic Assessment Results

7.2.1 History of Companies A and B

7.2.2 Company A's Innovation Assessment Results

7.2.3 Innovation Diagnostic Assessment

7.3 Assessment Conclusions

7.4 Determining Your Organization's Strategic Innovation Status

Chapter 8: Dream into Action: Execution of the Innovation Strategy

8.1 Step One: Find the Opportunity

8.2 Step Two: Connect the Idea to a Solution

8.3 Tipping Point: Selecting the Solution to Develop

8.4 Step Three: Make the Solution User-Friendly

8.5 Step Four: Get to Market!

8.6 The People Who Are Committed to the Innovation Process

Chapter 9: Nessis Case Study

Chapter 10: Sustainable Innovation

10.1 Circumstance Dependent

10.2 Maintain the Innovation Culture

10.3 Maintain Balance

10.4 Integrate with Strategy

10.5 Manage Failures

10.6 Develop an Innovation Center of Excellence

10.7 Summary

Appendix: Innovation Tools

Endnotes

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780873892315

0873892313

9780873892322

0873892321

9780873898607

0873898605