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A
Topographical Map of the Innovation Landscape |
This paper describes the construction and use of a topographical map
of the innovation landscape. The purpose of the map is to provide a
holistic view of the key factors that enable innovation (the
so-called 'landmarks'), how well they are aligned to support the
particular type of innovation the organization needs to pursue, and
to identify possible gaps. |
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An
Innovative Manager's Check-List |
This check-list has been designed to be of use to supervisors,
managers, and project leaders contemplating or implementing
innovation or wishing to manage a project in a way which will
enhance innovation. Its purpose is to alert you and to guide you in
confronting issues which are key to successful innovation. |
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Cash Flows of Innovations |
Innovation, both at the project and portfolio level, can be managed
better by drawing cash curves of cumulative cash flow. These
pictures will cause managers to question their assumptions about
various kinds of risks (market, financial, technical, etc.) and
consider alternative development models. 2006 |
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Comparison of Innovation Methodologies and TRIZ |
Based on the comparison and contrast of the strength and weakness
between many common innovation methodologies and TRIZ, it is pointed
that TRIZ is the most powerful systematic innovation methodology
among them, especially in Mechatronics domain. 2005 |
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Comprehending innovation tools |
Understanding functions and form to get better results.
When innovators connect with each other, the first topic for
discussion is often, “What tools are you using?” 2007 |
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Creating an Environment for Innovation |
Once your company has made a conscious decision to encourage
innovation, where and how should you start? In this article, one
assumes that one has agreed on a consistent definition of what it
means to innovate, and that one has the intention of involving as
many in the company as possible and appropriate. |
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Customer-Controlled Innovation |
Collaboration with customers is transforming product-development
strategies and unlocking new ways for companies to innovate. 2007 |
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Disruptive Innovation |
Addressing the full spread of disruption from technology, business
model and customer value, this article highlights the
innovation-driven success of companies ranging from Odeontis,
Huaneng, On-Star and Skype through to Zopa, Avarind Healthcare,
Net-a-Porter and Netjets. 2006 |
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Extending Innovation Beyond the Corporate Boundary |
Amy Muller and Liisa Valikangas discuss how innovation can be
extended outside the corporate boundary through recombining
competencies with alliance partners and through exploring new
opportunity space with others. |
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Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to
Innovation Activity? |
In this paper the authors examine the importance of financial and
other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands. They report
results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms’ decision to
abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down, or not to start an
innovative project. 2008 |
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Financing Innovation |
Provides info for innovators and investors, info on European support
Schemes etc. |
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Forging Innovation From Disruption |
Disruptive-innovation theory suggests relatively simple,
straight-forward technological solutions can trump powerful
incumbents. The trick now is separating the true conceptual gems
from the merely different ideas. |
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Glossary of New Product Development Terms |
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Guide for Managing Innovation - Part 1: Diagnosis |
This guide was designed by CIDEM as a tool aimed at small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them assess their capacity
for innovation. |
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Guide for Managing Innovation - Part 2: Conclusions |
This guide was designed by CIDEM as a tool aimed at small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them assess their capacity
for innovation. |
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How
innovative are you really? |
When “back to the stone-age” may not be too bad after all. One of
the most stable trends in recent years has been the increasing
product homogeneity in many markets. Products that were once clearly
profiled specialties are becoming more and more commodity-like in
the view of the customers. pdf-file 2003 |
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How
Should CIOs Lead Technology Innovation? |
Rethinking your approach to IT research |
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How
Top Innovators Get Innovation Right |
Results from Arthur D. Little's Third Innovation Excellence Survey.
2005 |
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Impacting Climate for Innovation: Can CEOs Make a Difference? |
This study suggests that an essential component of effective
leadership is the ability to reflect on objectives, strategies, and
processes in a way that influences the attitudes and behavior of
employees towards innovation, and then planning and implementing
change. |
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Innovate, or stagnate |
In this article, the authors go through all the excuses they have
heard for not setting up a corporate venturing office and rebut them
one by one. |
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Innovation & Technology Transfer |
Online-Newsletter of the European Cordis Program |
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Innovation 2005 |
In late 2004, The Boston Consulting Group conducted its second
annual global survey of senior executives on innovation and the
innovation-to-cash (ITC) process. |
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Innovation and risk management: a recipe for improving performance |
The purpose of this report is to provide a basis for reflection on
current practice in this area and to make some suggestions for next
steps. In looking at organisations that excel, we identified
ingredients that appear to be common to those that achieve success
through innovation and well-judged risk taking. |
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Innovation in Germany |
An article in German from Manager Magazin, a leading German
management periodical, on the problem of innovation in Germany and
its relationship to leadership and the German culture's reluctance
to engage with leadership since World War II. |
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Innovation Leaders 2005/06 Analysis Summary |
latest edition of the annual Innovation Leaders analysis profiles
the organisations that are making the most innovation impact today.
It highlights those companies across twenty key sectors that are
profitably changing their markets, launching high-impact products
and services and consistently exceeding customer expectations at the
same time as generating and managing sustainable growth. 2006 |
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Innovation Often an Excuse for Inept Leadership |
Innovation is back to the front burner. That’s great news… unless
you work for a “fuzzy leader” – a rather common management style.
The author explains how the need for innovation helps these managers
conceal their leadership flaws and encourages them to torment their
people. He provides guidelines to foster result-driven innovation. |
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Innovation Traps |
Risks and Challenges in Thinking About Innovation. 2003 |
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Innovation via Global Route: |
Proposing a Reference Model for Chances and Challenges of Global
Innovation Processes. Innovations in today’s “globalized” world are
hardly feasible in isolation. |
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Innovation without R&D |
The secrets to providing innovative services. In services, the
foundation of successful innovation is a more flexible and iterative
approach in which people contribute knowledge based on their
capabilities and reputations. |
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Innovation: A Wealth of Contradictions |
Most companies say they're above average in innovation, according to
an A.T.Kearney study. But clearly a majority cannot lead the pack.
2003 |
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Innovation: The New Route to Wealth |
Gary Hamel and Peter Skarzynski say that creating new wealth
requires more than simply responding to market demand. |
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Internal Markets |
Emerging Governance Structures for Innovation. Why do management
hierarchies fail innovation? |
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Introduction to Innovation |
A short series about terminology, importance, problems, benefits
etc. |
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IT-Departments - Gaining a Seat at the Innovation Table |
In their quest to become more innovative, most firms fail to
leverage a potentially powerful asset: the IT department. This
article looks at the actions of several companies that have managed
to get it right. 2007 |
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Knowledge Innovation |
Entovation International: Articles and resources, including
overview, core principles, leadership map etc. |
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Managing failed ideas— Could this have been the next iPod®? |
In this article, the author examines the reasons for failed ideas
and how to capture some of these ideas in a “Recycle Bin” for future
development. |
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Managing Innovation in Organizations |
A Framework for Creativity and Collaboration |
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Managing Innovation in Service Industries |
An Online-Book with case studies |
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Managing Innovation through Corporate Venturing |
New management models can help a firm commercialize ideas that would
otherwise languish |
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Managing Technology-Driven Innovation Risk: How to Turn Uncertainty
into Advantage |
In their quest for innovation-led growth, executives are apt to
approach technology investments with a conservative risk-averse
mindset. This paper explains how taking an active approach to
technology risk management, using three common portfolio management
techniques, can reduce uncertainty and increase a company's
opportunity for growth.
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Money Isn’t Everything |
Lavish R&D budgets don’t guarantee performance. A new Booz Allen
Hamilton study of the world’s 1,000 biggest spenders reveals the
value of an innovation dollar — and the basics of a better strategy.
2005 |
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New
Paradigms: Innovative Forms of Organization |
Companies that seek to lead in innovation need to look beyond the
R&D lab. Liisa Välikangas identifies three emerging organizational
forms that have the potential to alter the competitive landscape in
significant ways. Pdf-file |
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Open Innovation: No Longer an Option |
To compete effectively, companies will increasingly have to look
beyond their internal walls for sources of advantage. It’s
increasingly clear that open innovation is no longer an option.
Businesses that don’t harness its power risk being left behind. |
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Open Source - The Ignorance of Crowds |
The open source model can be an important factor in innovation, but
it comes with limitations. 2007 |
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Organizing for Innovation |
Organizing for Innovation: Technology and Intelligent Capacities,
Article by Michael D. McMaster |
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Organizing for Innovation in Large Firms |
Determining how a firm can best be organized to facilitate
innovation is a topic of central importance to managers and
academics alike and is thus the focus of this working paper.
abstract, full text available for download |
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Pioneering Innovation |
Like settlers in the Old West, organizations need to be creative and
resourceful to survive. But how can accounting departments,
historically shackled by rules and regulations, contribute to an
organization's innovative culture? |
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Quotes |
Nothing scientific, but if you need a quote about innovation - there
is a great variety |
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Radical Innovation and Design Research |
Global competition has forced companies to redesign themselves. This
general motivation in industry has been the reason that companies
have started to gather knowledge how to innovate their innovation
business system. |
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Repetition Leads To Innovation |
The role of recursive conversation in product development |
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Risk, Innovation and Values - Examining the Tensions |
This paper explores the tensions among innovation, values and
risk-taking that public sector managers face when they make
decisions about uncertain outcomes. The paper makes four suggestions
for consideration by Risk Management Division. |
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Smart Innovation - Innovate to seize the opportunity in complexity |
Companies striving to stay ahead of their competitors through
innovation need to become Smart Innovators by developing the ability
to spot the opportunity in complexity. This article explains how
companies, by developing this ability, can gain access to the best
of both worlds. 2006 |
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Strategic Innovation |
A short explanation |
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Strategic Niche Management as an Operational Tool for Sustainable
Innovation: Guidelines for Practice |
Strategic Niche Management provides an evolutionary analytical
framework that has proven useful for the analysis of success and
failure in the introduction of radical innovations in fields such as
wind energy, biomass, public transport systems and food production.
2006 |
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Strengthen Your Organization with Creative Destruction: |
Dismantle your old patterns and habits while creating flexible,
adaptable, agile systems. It's the key to innovation! |
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Succeeding with Your Bright Ideas |
There are many ways to come up with better ideas. But, success means
more than that. |
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Taking Chances: Finding Ways to Embrace Innovation, Risk and Control
in the Public Sector Organizations |
This document sets out five principles intended to support public
sector managers, auditors and legislators in a common purpose: the
application of sound management practices in the related areas of
innovation, risk management and control. |
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The
Consequences of Innovation |
Although innovation is frequently heralded as the driver of the ‘new
economy’, its myriad claims have yet to be substantiated. The paper
surveys the literature and addresses some of the claims
skeptically. |
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The
DNA of cultures that promote product innovation |
Creating a culture that encourages – rather than hinders –
innovation is a major challenge for managers today. These authors
have some key suggestions. Pdf-file 533 KB. 2003 |
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The
Economics of Innovation |
A company’s ability to grow revenue by creating new products and
services is one driver of its stock value. But innovative management
practices are necessary to get new products to market and create
wealth for the organization and its stakeholders. |
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The
Ethics of Innovation and the Development of Innovative Projects |
This paper addresses the question of what are the basic ethical
principles that ought to govern the development and implementation
of innovative public sector programs or policies. 2003 |
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The
Growth of Global Innovation Networks Creates New Management
Challenges |
While many companies are growing their R&D networks and increasing
the number of sites outside their home countries, few have the
internal capabilities in place to run these networks efficiently and
effectively. 2006 |
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The
Innovation High Ground: How Leading Companies are Using
Sustainability-Driven Innovation |
In 1999, Arthur D. Little linked up with the World Business Council
for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to investigate how 80 companies
were integrating sustainable development into their approach to
innovation management, and to learn about the opportunities and
barriers they were experiencing. Five years on, we set out to find
out what had changed. 2005 |
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The
Innovation Imperative |
Recessions and times of uncertainty present unusual opportunities.
In these times, companies need to seize new opportunities not by
retrenching, but by rebalancing: focusing on the right innovation
projects and then executing those innovations more efficiently,
effectively and creatively. |
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The
Innovator’s Advantage |
Using Innovation and Technology to Improve Business Performance.
Companies that are more innovative are much more successful in their
use of technology, a major global study by Accenture Policy &
Corporate Affairs finds. 2003 |
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The
Innovator's Solution |
Seagate Technology has developed a set of five operating principles
that allows it to out-innovate even the most nimble young
competitor. The result: an innovator that poses a dilemma for its
rivals. |
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The
Practice of Innovation |
Article by Peter M. Senge. |
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The
Seven Rules Of Innovation |
Successful innovation requires processes and tools that can
recognize good ideas and transform them into captured value |
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The
Well-Designed Global R&D Network |
A new study by Booz Allen Hamilton and INSEAD finds that
organizations benefit when they configure their innovation networks
for cost and manage them for value. 2006 |
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Tools and techniques for managing the front end of innovation |
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What really makes the difference is the presence of innovation
leaders |
An interview with Jean-Philippe Deschamps, Professor at IMD. 2006. |
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