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Innovator's Toolkit: 10 Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation
Harvard Business Essentials - The New Manager’s Guide and Mentor
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 - Types of Innovation
Incremental and Radical Innovation
Factors That Favor Incremental Innovation
Process Innovations
The Product-Process Connection
Service Innovations
Summing Up
2 - Idea Generation
New Knowledge
Customer Ideas
Learning from Lead Users
Empathetic Design
Invention Factories and Skunkworks
Open Market Innovation
The Role of Mental Preparation
How Management Can Encourage Idea Generation
Four Idea-Generating Techniques
Summing Up
3 - Recognizing Opportunities
A Method for Opportunity Recognition
Rough Cut Business Evaluation
Summing Up
4 - From Recognition to Support
The Champion
Supporting Cast
Get the Timing Right
Build a Business Case
Line Up Stakeholders
Maintain Momentum
5 - Early Tests of Business Potential
The Idea Funnel
Stage-Gates
A Caution on Funnels and Stage-Gates
Financial Issues
Discovery-Driven Planning
The R-W-W Method
Summing Up
6 - Types of Strategy
Low-Cost Leadership
Differentiation
Customer Relationship
The Network Effect
Summing Up
7 - Strategic Moves
Gaining a Market Beachhead
Market Entry Through Process Innovation
Market Entry Through Product Differentiation
Create and Dominate a New Market
Extending Innovation Through Platforms
Summing Up
8 - The S-Curve and Its Strategic Lessons
The S-Curve Explained
Four Lessons
Limits to These Lessons
Summing Up
9 - Finding the Future
Where Do You Stand Now?
Signals That Change Is in the Making
Create a Welcoming Home for the Future
Summing Up
10 - Placing Strategic Bets
Portfolio Management
Getting a Handle on Risk
Bottom-Up or Top-Down Innovation?
Summing Up
11 - Human Creativity
Myths About Creativity
Three Components of Individual Creativity
Managing for Greater Individual Creativity
Summing Up
12 - Working Through Creative Groups
Characteristics of Creative Groups
Conflict in Groups—and How to Handle It
Time Pressure and Group Creativity
Finding the Right Balance in Group Tenure
Summing Up
13 - Toward a Creativity-Friendly Workplace
Risk Taking Is Acceptable to Management
New Ideas and New Ways of Doing Things Are Welcome
People Communicate Freely
Knowledge Is Shared
Good Ideas Find Supportive Executive Patrons
Innovators Are Rewarded
The Physical Surroundings Bring People Together
How Friendly to Creativity Is Your Workplace?
Summing Up
14 - Leaders Can Make a Difference
Fixing the Culture
Establish Strategic Direction
Be Involved with Innovation
Be Open but Skeptical
Improve the Idea-to-Commercialization Process
Exercise Flexibility
Don’t Overlook Innovations in Processes, Finance, and Distribution
Put People with the Right Stuff in Charge
Create an Ambidextrous Organization
Summing Up
APPENDIX A - Writing a Business Plan
APPENDIX B - Workplace Assessment Checklist
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Glossary
For Further Reading
Index
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Harvard Business Essentials
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The New Manager’s Guide and Mentor
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
1
-
Types of Innovation
2
-
Idea Generation
3
-
Recognizing Opportunities
4
-
From Recognition to Support
5
-
Early Tests of Business Potential
6
-
Types of Strategy
7
-
Strategic Moves
8
-
The S-Curve and Its Strategic Lessons
9
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Finding the Future
10
-
Placing Strategic Bets
11
-
Human Creativity
12
-
Working Through Creative Groups
13
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Toward a Creativity-Friendly Workplace
14
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Leaders Can Make a Difference
APPENDIX A -
Writing a Business Plan
APPENDIX B -
Workplace Assessment Checklist
No tes
Glossary
For Further Reading
Index
About the Subject Adviser
About the Writer
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