Discontinuous Innovation

Author : Peter Augsdörfer
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1783263881
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discontinuous Innovation written by Peter Augsdörfer and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (www.innovation-lab.org). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful insights into its different challenges. It also raises several questions related to the subject, some of which are: how do firms pick up weak signals on emerging — and possibly radically different — innovation? What should firms do when these weak signals hit their “mainstream” process? What are the criteria for allocating resources to a strategic innovation project? What actions should firms take to avoid being left out by the “corporate immune system”? How should firms organize projects that often break existing rules and require new rules to be created? This book attempts to provide answers to the above mentioned questions by gathering information from the research project and also from firms that have tried exploring various ideas, models and insights to tackle discontinuous innovation. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to both practitioners and academics alike.

Author : Martin Hewing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3658037539
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collaboration with Potential Users for Discontinuous Innovation written by Martin Hewing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and innovation are important drivers of economic welfare and growth in contemporary societies. Collaborating with and learning from users in the early phase of the innovation process has been considered a successful approach to stimulate those creative sparks for organizations. However, the idea of users as innovators has also invoked critical responses especially in the context of innovations that are discontinuous to dominant designs. Martin Hewing and co-author Katharina Hölzle explore the potential that can arise through collaboration with potential users who are not yet users. Those users at the peripheries are perceived to contribute more novel information, by which they better reflect shifts in needs and behavior than current users at the center.

Author : Bettina von Stamm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470510668
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity written by Bettina von Stamm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is the major driving force in organisations today. With the rise of truly global markets and the intensifying competition for customers, employees and other critical resources, the ability to continuously develop successful innovative products, services, processes and strategies is essential. While creativity is the starting point for any kind of innovation, design is the process through which a creative idea or concept is translated into reality. Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity, 2nd Edition brings these three strands together in a discussion built around a collection of up-to-date case studies.

Author : António Carrizo Moreira
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331974304X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation and Supply Chain Management written by António Carrizo Moreira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key issues, challenges, opportunities and trends in innovation processes and supply chain management. It proposes ways for organizations to improve their performance by developing business strategies, establishing business innovation activities, and aligning business and innovation activities among firms. Further, it showcases and analyzes the implementation of inter- and intra-organizational process improvement activities and the implementation of organizational innovation solutions to address new product and process-related collaborative relationships across the supply chain. The book is useful for researchers, academics and professionals, presenting some of the most advanced research, concepts, and case studies on the relationship between innovation and supply chain.

Author : Larisa V Shavinina
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 008044198X
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Handbook on Innovation written by Larisa V Shavinina and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breadth of this work will allow the reader to acquire a comprehensive and panoramic picture of the nature of innovation within a single handbook.

Author : James Barlow
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1786341549
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Innovation in Healthcare written by James Barlow and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with access to healthcare. Innovative thinking is essential to meet these twin challenges, but innovation is both a cause and cure of many struggles in healthcare — we need it, but it is hard to manage and the introduction of new technology can lead to higher costs. Using real-life examples and case studies from around the world, this book introduces the latest thinking on understanding and managing healthcare innovation more effectively. It does this from the perspective of governments responsible for shaping health policy, healthcare organisations providing services and juggling competing demands, and from the perspective of the industries that supply the new drugs, devices and other technologies. Managing Innovation in Healthcare is the perfect accompaniment for MSc, PhD and MBA students on health policy, management and public health courses, as well as managers, consultants and policy makers involved in healthcare services in both the public and private sector.

Author : Shao Bo Zhong
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
ISBN 13 : 3038139696
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing and Engineering Developments written by Shao Bo Zhong and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Innovation Manufacturing and Engineering Management (IMEM2012), December 14-16, 2012, Chongqing, China. Chapter 1: Manufacturing and Engineering Management; Chapter 2: General Mechanical Engineering; Chapter 3: Mechanical Transmission, Vibration and Noise; Chapter 4: Electrical and Electronics Engineering; Chapter 5: Materials and Raw for Manufacturing; Chapter 6: Sensors and Intelligent Instrument; Chapter 7: Detection and Diagnosis; Chapter 8: Control and Information Engineering; Chapter 9: Methods and Algorithms of Research and Designing.

Author : Tom Osenton
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780131423312
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Demand written by Tom Osenton and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this title, Osenton offers readers a comprehensive programme for increasing profits when they can't increase revenue.

Author : Peter Raulerson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387799516
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Routes to Customers written by Peter Raulerson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Routes to Customers explains the powerful “Routes-to-Market” approach for driving profitable growth. World-class organizations including IBM, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Hitachi, Adobe and Plantronics, and hundreds of smaller companies, have adopted RTM to develop and execute highly successful go-to-market strategies and tactics. With a step-by-step approach and dozens of examples, the authors show how you can use RTM to: (1) Determine the optimal level of spending for each function in marketing, sales and customer service, for each market segment, product and service. (2) Optimize your marketing mix and sales and distribution channels to maximize revenue and profitability throughout the product life cycle. (3) Get everyone in product management, marketing, sales, customer service, and your distribution partners aligned and working together to maximize results. (4) Get the right products and services to the right customers at the right time. (5) Retain existing customers and create profitable new ones.

Author : Lee Sage
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471333463
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Innovation Race written by Lee Sage and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inside Look at the Process of Innovation-and How to Make it Work for your Business While the need for innovation is widely recognized, the practices that nurture it elude many executives. Winning the Innovation Race examines the three dimensions of innovation-people, processes, and technology-and provides vivid examples of practices that encourage innovation. This comprehensive book describes the forms that innovation takes in industrial organizations and how superior companies manage to sustain innovation through effective management. The practices of PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contributions to Excellence) Award-winning companies are used to illustrate how truly innovative companies make the most of their employees, how they treat product development as a "perfectible process," and how they create reward systems that build cultures of innovation. Some of the vital lessons you'll learn in this unique resource: * The virtue of "cheap failures" * Why organizational discomfort is needed * The role of executive leadership * How to sustain a culture of innovation