Innovator’s Toolkit: 10 Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation | by Harvard Business School Press | 2009 | ISBN: 9781422199909. Innovation and Creativity Books. Workplace Assessment Checklist.
Innovator’s Toolkit: 10 Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation
by Harvard Business School Press
2009 (304 pages)
ISBN:9781422199909
Providing jargon-free, useable, practical tools and advice, this handy guide offers you field-tested techniques and tips to ensure the successful development and implementation of your innovation.
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Innovator’s Toolkit—10 Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation
Introduction
The Role of Innovation in Enterprise
The Innovation Process
The Challenge to Business Leaders
What’s Ahead
Chapter 1 – Types of Innovation—Several Types on Many Fronts
Overview
Incremental and Radical Innovation
Factors That Favor Incremental Innovation
Process Innovations
The Product-Process Connection
Service Innovations
Summing Up
Chapter 2 – Idea Generation—Innovation’s Starting Point
Overview
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
Chapter 3 – Recognizing Opportunities—Innovator as Entrepreneur
Overview
A Method for Opportunity Recognition
Rough Cut Business Evaluation
Summing Up
Chapter 4 – From Recognition to Support—Gaining a Foothold
Overview
The Champion
Supporting Cast
Get the Timing Right
Build a Business Case
Line Up Stakeholders
Maintain Momentum
Summing Up
Chapter 5 – Early Tests of Business Potential—Stage Gates and Quick Kills
Overview
The Idea Funnel
Stage-Gates
A Caution on Funnels and Stage-Gates
Financial Issues
Discovery-Driven Planning
The R-W-W Method
Summing Up
Chapter 6 – Types of Strategy—Which Fits Your Business?
Overview
Low-Cost Leadership
Differentiation
Customer Relationship
The Network Effect
Summing Up
Chapter 7 – Strategic Moves—Mechanisms for Market Entry and Dominance
Overview
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
Chapter 8 – The S-Curve and Its Strategic Lessons—What Curve Are You On?
Overview
The S-Curve Explained
Four Lessons
Limits to These Lessons
Summing Up
Chapter 9 – Finding the Future—Your Next Move
Overview
Where Do You Stand Now?
Signals That Change Is in the Making
Create a Welcoming Home for the Future
Summing Up
Chapter 10 – Placing Strategic Bets—The Portfolio Approach
Overview
Portfolio Management
Getting a Handle on Risk
Bottom-Up or Top-Down Innovation?
Summing Up
Chapter 11 – Human Creativity—The Starting Point of Creativity
Overview
Myths About Creativity
Three Components of Individual Creativity
Managing for Greater Individual Creativity
Summing Up
Chapter 12 – Working Through Creative Groups—The Power of Numbers
Overview
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
Chapter 13 – Toward a Creativity-Friendly Workplace—Practical Steps
Overview
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
Chapter 14 – Leaders Can Make a Difference—It’s in Their Hands
Overview
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
Overview
Suggested Format
Style
Final Thoughts
Appendix B – Workplace Assessment Checklist
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Appendix A
Glossary
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