Bettina von Stamm

Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity

Innovation, design and creativity are amongst the most frequently used words in business today. However, whilst most managers agree that innovation and creativity are essential to assuring long-term success, many struggle with realizing this in their work and translating it into everyday business life. Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity provides managers and students with insights that help them create sustainable and innovative organizations. These insights will help the reader to appreciate and understand how their organization can gain most from innovation, design and creativity and, more importantly, will show them how to translate these words into action. FEATURES Offers an integrative approach to innovation, design and creativity. Includes a collection of 10 substantive case studies from a broad range of industries that provide insights into the wide range of topics necessary to create an innovative organization. Identifies tools and techniques that will help to improve an organization’s innovation performance. Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity has been written for students on innovation and design courses, and also for business managers with responsibility for innovation within their organizations. A website containing case teaching notes can be found at: www.wiley.co.uk/vonstamm offers a leading collection of resource material, data

Focusing on the future challenges companies face in being continously innovative, this book is based on a combination of world class talks given at the Innovation Exchange (IE) conference in November 2001. Through interviews with various companies, the book identifies the best and worst practices in innovation strategy. Three main topics are discussed in detail: trends, challenges, and paradoxes. Utilizing practical and academic knowledge, with a strong reliance on real-world applicability, the book will help readers build innovation performance into their companies.

Meeting the Corporate Challenge

The Innovation Wave

John Bessant

Frank Piller

Peter AugsdÃ¶rfer

Kathrin MÃ¶slein

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.

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