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Book Lessons in Radical Innovation

Download or read book Lessons in Radical Innovation written by Wolfgang Grulke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lessons in Radical Innovation

Download or read book Lessons in Radical Innovation written by Wolfgang Grulke and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies don't innovate - people do. The heart of radical innovation in business is the bold visionary individual. People who are passionately proud of what they do. They're business radicals - activists who rock the boat, ruffle feathers and make a difference. Here's how.

Book The Dream Cafe

Download or read book The Dream Cafe written by Duncan Bruce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get out of the office and dream! To keep your brand innovative you need to feed your creative spiritand the office is not the place to do that. So get out,disrupt and reimagine the status quo, get into a café anddream. Recreating the convivial, collaborative, creative world of theavant-garde the guys at The Dream Café have developed a fresh,new approach which is being used by major brands and businesses togreat success. They create actual Dream Café locations –settings which encourage freedom of thought and collaboration.Explaining how space and process can be harnessed to produce thekind of unanticipated multicultural and interdisciplinaryencounters that lead to unpredictable outcomes. Now, for the first time, the innovation consultants at The DreamCafé have made their model and methods available to us all inthis exciting new book. Focuses on the urgent need to enable major brand businesses toformulate, refine, and deliver the big brand idea that will disruptand redefine the market Shows how to innovate and stand out by embracing risk andinnovation Equal parts inspiration and practical implementation The concept covered is currently being used extensively bymajor global brands and companies

Book The New Science of Radical Innovation

Download or read book The New Science of Radical Innovation written by Sunnie Giles and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a groundbreaking, science-based approach to leadership that catalyzes radical innovation for dramatic—and permanent—results. Today's business environment is undergoing a revolutionary transformation, defined by extraordinary levels of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). But most traditional companies are still built for the old-world economy when the new mandate from VUCA requires a fresh leadership approach. Dr. Sunnie Giles is a new generation expert on radical innovation who takes the mystery out of what radical innovation is and transforms organizations into ones fit to deliver radical innovation. Her in-depth research reveals that applying concepts from neuroscience, complex systems approach, and quantum mechanics can help leaders catalyze radical innovation rapidly. Giles's breakthrough leadership development program, called Quantum Leadership, is the key to survival in the today's VUCA market, with huge consequences for organizations' bottom lines. The New Science of Radical Innovation provides profound insights and actionable tools to help you accelerate the speed of execution, balance between team cohesion and self-organization, and tap into the power of collective wisdom. Inside, discover how to develop the six leadership competencies you need to catalyze radical innovation in your organization: • Self Management • Providing Safety • Creating Differentiation • Strengthening Connection • Facilitating Learning • Stimulating Radical Innovation This book will help you redefine how value is created in your industry.

Book The Radical Innovation Playbook

Download or read book The Radical Innovation Playbook written by Olga Kokshagina and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Radical Innovation Playbook is a practical guide that helps innovators and entrepreneurs to harness new, extreme ideas despite complex business barriers along the way. Designed to be easy-to-use The Radical Innovation Playbook provides insight, practical solutions and reusable canvasses to help innovation managers, CEOs, Chief Innovators and directors of innovation labs to develop breakthrough ideas. In this playbook you will learn how to: Make vital decisions about how to plan and share your radical ideas Collect and analyse information to influence and convince others Engage with peers and stakeholders about your innovation project Challenge established company norms and business models Discover, explore and secure investment Gain confidence and skills for a successful launch Reach new markets and commercial channels Build a structure within an organisation that enables innovation to grow Inspire and support future generations to make an impact and achieve success Read The Radical Innovation Playbook and discover how to successfully unleash and develop your breakthrough moment. Olga Kokshagina, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Allen Alexander, University of Exeter, UK

Book Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist

Download or read book Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist written by Ray Anderson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “America’s greenest CEO” and the hero from the award-winning documentary The Corporation makes the urgent, compelling case that sustainable business pays. His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest”: the founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 82%, and the goal is to reach zero environmental footprint by 2020. Thoughtful and winning, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist shows how Anderson revolutionized his company, in the process bringing costs down, improving quality, making it one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” — and driving up profits. *The publisher has aimed for sustainability in all aspects of this book’s production, from the inks and glues to the trim size. The interior paper is 100% post-consumer recycled, certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and ancient-forest friendly. Instead of a jacket, the cover boards are wrapped in 100% recycled paper stock coated in a biodegradable varnish – and these are just two examples among many.

Book Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist

Download or read book Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist written by Ray C. Anderson and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothingfrom the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Now, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share that goal. The Interface story is a compelling one: in 1994, making carpets was a toxic, petroleum-based process, releasing immense amounts of air and water pollution and creating tons of waste. Fifteen years after Anderson's call for change, Interface has: —cut greenhouse gas emissions by 82%—cut fossil fuel consumption by 60%—cut waste by 66%—cut water use by 75%—invented and patented new machines, materials, and manufacturing processes—increased sales by 66%, doubled earnings, and raised profit margins With practical ideas and measurable outcomes that every business can use, Anderson shows that profit and sustainability are not mutually exclusive; businesses can improve their bottom lines and do right by the earth. Ray Anderson is featured in the film, So Right, So Smart, which takes a behind-the-scenes look at how his leadership transformed Interface into a company with a sustainable business practices that made it more profitable than it was before.

Book Radical Innovation

Download or read book Radical Innovation written by Richard Leifer and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to prove that established companies can implement revolutionary innovations, and that it is not limited to the realm of startup companies.

Book Advanced Introduction to Radical Innovation

Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Radical Innovation written by Joe Tidd and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Focussing on radical and breakthrough innovation, Joe Tidd provides a crucial insight into over 50 years of research and experience, and illustrates how the pioneering work on innovation dynamics can offer a deeper understanding of radical innovation to inform future research, policy and practice. The book also identifies the distinct sources, organization, processes and outcomes of radical innovation, in contrast to conventional incremental business and management approaches. Key Features: draws upon a distinct interdisciplinary body of knowledge on radical innovation illustrates conceptual models and practical methods to better understand and manage radical innovation goes beyond business school incremental approaches to innovation, such as marketing and design-thinking provides an argument for an iterative coupling process, between knowledge-push and demand-pull challenges and opportunities The practical approach in this Advanced Introduction will provide an excellent resource for scholars and researchers in innovation management and policy, as well as managers responsible for creating, resourcing and managing radical innovations.

Book Market Rebels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hayagreeva Rao
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2008-12-01
  • ISBN : 1400829747
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Market Rebels written by Hayagreeva Rao and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great individuals are assumed to cause the success of radical innovations--thus Henry Ford is depicted as the one who established the automobile industry in America. Hayagreeva Rao tells a different story, one that will change the way you think about markets forever. He explains how "market rebels"--activists who defy authority and convention--are the real force behind the success or failure of radical innovations. Rao shows how automobile enthusiasts were the ones who established the new automobile industry by staging highly publicized reliability races and lobbying governments to enact licensing laws. Ford exploited the popularity of the car by using new mass-production technologies. Rao argues that market rebels also establish new niches and new cultural styles. If it were not for craft brewers who crusaded against "industrial beer" and proliferated brewpubs, there would be no specialty beers in America. But for nouvelle cuisine activists who broke the stranglehold of Escoffier's classical cuisine in France, there would have been little hybridization and experimentation in modern cooking. Market rebels also thwart radical innovation. Rao demonstrates how consumer activists have faced down chain stores and big box retailers, and how anti-biotechnology activists in Germany penetrated pharmaceutical firms and delayed the commercialization of patents. Read Market Rebels to learn how activists succeed when they construct "hot causes" that arouse intense emotions, and exploit "cool mobilization"--unconventional techniques that engage audiences in collective action. You will realize how the hands that move markets are the joined hands of market rebels. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Book Transcultural Marketing for Incremental and Radical Innovation

Download or read book Transcultural Marketing for Incremental and Radical Innovation written by Bryan Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides indepth discussion on tactics for improving existing products while inventing completely new products and product categoriess; for those who wish to better understand the importance of marketing products and services across different cultures and multiple languages"--

Book The Innovator s Dilemma

Download or read book The Innovator s Dilemma written by Clayton M. Christensen and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Clay Christensen’s work continues to underpin today’s most innovative leaders and organizations. The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller—one of the most influential business books of all time—innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices. Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator’s Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative—and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time—The Innovator’s Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

Book Radical Product Innovation in Network Economies

Download or read book Radical Product Innovation in Network Economies written by Philipp Leutiger and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The focus of this thesis is set on radical product introductions in network markets. It appears that these have to overcome significant impediments to reach critical mass in the form of network externalities. A literature overview of economic analysis in this field, including network types, value of networks, path dependencies and lock-ins, as well as a detailed critique of these frameworks, is provided. We then discuss several possible avenues to overcome these challenges, some of which relate to the optimal boundaries of the firm, as well as some which attempt to tackle market externalities. From these, a market based framework will be developed as a guideline for radical product introductions into network economies. We analyse business cases in light of this framework in a selection of historic examples. In addition, as we find that contradictory arguments abound in chapter three, a second approach is proposed tentatively as basis for further research. Besides it s theoretic approach this thesis also provides real world examples from different geographic areas, such as the U.S., Europe and Japan. A special emphasis will be put on the market of payment solutions now emerging in Europe, and, in particular, on the German start-up Paybox.net AG. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: ContentsI AcknowledgementsIII List of FiguresIV List of TablesV List of AbbreviationsVI List of SymbolsIX AbstractX 1.Introduction1 1.1The Business Challenge1 1.2Scope and Outline of this Thesis2 1.3Establishing an M-Payment System: The Story of Paybox.net AG4 2.The Environment: Impediments for Product Introductions6 2.1Chapter Overview6 2.2Radical Innovations and Network Economies6 Introducing a Radical Innovation6 An Introduction to Networks10 Types of Networks14 Value of Networks18 2.3"New Economics"21 Increasing Returns21 Commitment and Lock-In22 New Rules?25 2.4Market Environment for Payment Systems31 Success Factors for Payment Systems31 Cashless Payment Processes33 Potential Innovators in the Payment Arena34 Summary: Payment Systems and the Theories of "New Economics"38 3.Remedies: Tackling Network Externalities40 3.1Chapter Overview40 3.2The Radical Innovator41 The Vertical Silo41 The Atomizer42 The Independent Team44 3.3Market Success Factors46 Open System Strategies versus Proprietary Network Control46 Focusing on Niche Markets51 Expectations Management53 Favorable Resource Allocation to [...]

Book Bringing Technology and Innovation into the Boardroom

Download or read book Bringing Technology and Innovation into the Boardroom written by European Institute for Technology and Innovation Management and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is waking up to the challenge of technology and innovation. We see EU commitment to spend 3% of GDP on R&D, but who is thinking about how to spend? Who is thinking about technology management? Does the corporate board have the means to manage this spend? Should some percentage of the R&D be spent on improving technology and innovation management? This is where this book makes a contribution. It brings together the latest practice, research findings and thinking, presented in a way that addresses top management requirements. The goal is to secure the economic future of the firm, in the context of a sustainable industry and society. Using the ideas and methods in this book, the board can assess and improve its own ability to deal with the challenge of technology and innovation.

Book Straight to the Bottom Line

Download or read book Straight to the Bottom Line written by Robert A. Rudzki and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear understanding of performance improvement opportunities and what is at stake if these opportunities are overlooked. It outlines a powerful and logical approach for assessing the state-of-play in any organization, and offers ways to estimate the specific opportunities related to implementing a change in strategy and practices. It also details a comprehensive framework for organizing the transformation plan across multiple dimensions, and gives advice on which areas to focus on first in order to build and ensure success.

Book Fast Second

    Book Details:
  • Author : Constantinos C. Markides
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2004-09-24
  • ISBN : 9780787976897
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Fast Second written by Constantinos C. Markides and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why being a "fast second" is often more financially rewarding than being at the cutting edge. If you get there first, you'll lead the pack, right? Not necessarily! The skill-sets of most established companies, say strategy experts Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski, are far better suited to scaling up newly created markets pioneered by others (in other words, being "fast seconds") than to creating these markets from scratch. In Fast Second, they explore the characteristics of new markets, describe the skills needed to create and compete in them, and show how these skills match up with different types of companies. Drawing on examples of successful fast-second firms such as Microsoft, Amazon, Canon, JVC, Heinz, and many others, they illustrate how to determine which new markets have the potential to be successful and how to move into them before the competition does, when to make a move into a new market, how to scale up a market, where to position a company in the market, and whether to be a colonizer or a consolidator. Order your copy today!

Book The Right Kind of Crazy

Download or read book The Right Kind of Crazy written by Adam Steltzner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Steltzner is no ordinary engineer. His path to leadership was about as unlikely as they come. A child of beatnik parents, he barely made it through school. He blew off college in favour of work at a health food store and playing bass in a band, but after discovering an astonishing gift for maths and physics, he ended up helping a group of scientists land the heaviest rover in the history of space exploration on Mars. This is the story of the teamwork, drama and extraordinary feats of innovation at the Jet Propulsion Lab that culminated in that landing in 2012.