Harvard business essentials : managing creativity and innovation.
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| Imprint: | Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2003. |
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| Description: | xv, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Harvard business essentials series Harvard business essentials series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4909013 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Types of Innovation: Several Types on Many Fronts
- Incremental and Radical Innovation
- Factors That Favor Incremental Innovation
- Innovations in Processes
- Service Innovations
- Summing Up
- 2. The S-Curve: A Concept and Its Lessons
- The S-Curve Explained
- Three Lessons
- Where Do You Stand on the S-Curve?
- Limits to These Lessons
- Summing Up
- 3. Idea Generation: Opening the Genie's Bottle
- New Knowledge
- Tapping the Ideas of Customers
- Learning from Lead Users
- Empathetic Design
- Invention Factories and Skunkworks
- Open Market Innovation
- The Role of Mental Preparation
- How Management Can Encourage Idea Generation
- Two Idea-Generating Techniques
- Summing Up
- 4. Recognizing Opportunities: Don't Let the Good Ones Slip By
- A Method for Opportunity Recognition
- Rough-Cut Business Evaluation
- Summing Up
- 5. Moving Innovation to Market: Will It Fly?
- The Idea Funnel
- Stage-Gate Systems
- A Caution on Funnels and Stage-Gate Systems
- Financial Issues
- Extending Innovation Through Platforms
- Summing Up
- 6. Creativity and Creative Groups: Two Keys to Innovation
- Myths About Creativity
- Three Components of Individual Creativity
- Characteristics of Creative Groups
- Handling Conflict in Groups
- Time Pressure and Creativity
- Six Steps for Increasing Your Own Creativity
- Summing Up
- 7. Enhancing Creativity: Enriching the Organization and Workplace
- Organizational Enrichment
- Enriching the Physical Workplace
- Summing Up
- 8. What Leaders Must Do: Making a Difference
- Develop an Innovation-Friendly Culture
- Establish Strategic Direction
- Be Involved with Innovation
- Be Open but Skeptical
- Improve the Idea-to-Commercialization Process
- Apply Portfolio Thinking
- Put People with the Right Stuff in Charge
- Create an Ambidextrous Organization
- Summing Up
- Appendix A. The Time Value of Money
- Appendix B. Useful Implementation Tools
- Notes
- Glossary
- For Further Reading
- Index
- About the Subject Adviser
- About the Writer