Building a Culture of Innovation

2015-12-03
 |  Business & Economics
Building a Culture of Innovation

Author: Cris Beswick

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

ISBN: 9780749474485

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 232

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Being a truly innovative company is more than the dreaming up of new products and services by external consultants and internal taskforces. Staying one step ahead of the competition requires you to embed innovation into your organizational culture. Innovation needs to be embodied in everything that gets done by everyone who works there. By changing your organizational culture to one that supports innovation, you will remove the barriers that stop you responding quickly and agilely to changing market conditions and opportunities for growth. Building a Culture of Innovation presents a practical framework that you can follow to design and embed a culture of innovation in your business.The six-step Innovation Culture Change Framework offers a structured process to make change stick, from assessing your organization's innovation-readiness to leading a managed change process that will foster innovation at each level. It includes case studies from international organizations which have shifted their focus to an innovation culture, including Prudential, Qinetiq, Octopus Investments, Cisco, Siemens, BrightMove Media, Waitrose and Feefo. Supported with downloadable resources, Building a Culture of Innovation is an essential read for business leaders and change implementation teams who want to place innovation at the heart of their business strategy.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

2015-03-12
 |  Business & Economics
Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Author: Charles H. Matthews

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317802105

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 360

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This book presents a new model, the competency framework, for students, innovators, entrepreneurs, managers, and anyone who wants to better understand the dynamic world of innovation and entrepreneurship. Focused on both the individual and strategic organizational level, this book is about people and the competencies each person needs to learn to be successful in creating a more dynamic future. Matthews and Brueggemann’s framework for innovation and entrepreneurship competencies empowers individuals to excel at innovation and new venture creation. It provides a practical guide and clear and concise understanding of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experiences that are needed to increase imagination, creativity, innovation and new venture creation capability. Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be attractive for students of entrepreneurship, innovation, management and cross-disciplinary classes, such as design thinking. Presented in a modular format, Innovation & Entrepreneurship informs the future direction of people and technology, as well as the educational systems producing the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. Based on extensive academic research, this book is organized into two sections: Twelve innovation elements and twelve competency categories. The elements are the foundation and the competency categories are the building blocks that inform our path toward a more precise understanding of how innovation and entrepreneurship plays an important role in economic development and our daily lives.

Establishing an Innovation Culture at General Mills Canada

2017-09-27
 |  Business & Economics
Establishing an Innovation Culture at General Mills Canada

Author: Felix Zappe

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

ISBN: 9783668537453

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 18

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Document from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,0, University of Malta (Edward de Bono Institute), course: Innovation & Entrepreneurship, language: English, abstract: This work summarizes the case from Ivey School “General Mills Canada: Building a Culture of Innovation (B)”, analyses what went wrong regarding the described efforts and systematically comes up with new ideas to establish an innovation culture using introducing an already established framework.

Innovative Individuals

2015
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Innovative Individuals

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ISBN: OCLC:945751298

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How can individuals have an impact on organizational innovation? It seems that everyone is talking about innovation these days, and it's not hard to see why. The world continues to change rapidly, and without innovation, many companies will be left behind by the competition. Yet despite this ever-apparent need to innovate, there is a real lack of understanding on exactly how innovation can be increased. Who is responsible for an organizations innovation? And what can you, as an individual, do to increase the innovation capacity of yourself and the company as a whole? Join us for this 60 minute session where Ms. Nilufer Erdebil will explain how building individual innovation capacity can have a big impact on your organization's future. Don't miss this chance to hear why innovation is important at both an individual and organizational level, how your contributions could have a major impact, and what steps you need to take in order to get there before the competition.

Exploring the Trust and Innovation Mechanisms in M&A of China's State Owned Enterprises with Mixed Ownership

 |  Business enterprises
Exploring the Trust and Innovation Mechanisms in M&A of China's State Owned Enterprises with Mixed Ownership

Author: Yan Wang

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9789811644047

Category: Business enterprises

Page: 353

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This book is dedicated to strategic management research relating to Chinas SOE. As Chinas economic system of the day is featured by mixed ownership, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), under the New Normal of economic backdrop, are devoted to exploring the reform of stock resources reorganization, one of which is through mergers and acquisitions (M & A). This book explores the key points and difficulties in the successful reform of Chinese enterprises with mixed ownership by focusing on trust and innovation and by widely covering normative research, index evaluation system, game theory and empirical research with case study. It is significant for evaluating the reform of SOE in China by integrating the informal institutional aspects into the formal one and understanding the leading role of SOE in Chinas economic development.

The Routledge Companion to Innovation Management

2019-02-14
 |  Business & Economics
The Routledge Companion to Innovation Management

Author: Jin Chen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351997065

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 600

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Innovation contributes to corporate competitiveness, economic performance and environmental sustainability. In the Internet era, innovation intelligence is transferred across borders and languages at an unprecedented rate, yet the ability to benefit from it seems to become more divergent among different corporations and countries. How much an organization can benefit from innovation largely depends on how well innovation is managed in it. Thus, there is a discernible increase in interest in the study of innovation management. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to this subject. The handbook introduces the basic framework of innovation and innovation management. It also presents innovation management from the perspectives of strategy, organization and resource, as well as institution and culture. The book’s comprehensive coverage on all areas of innovation management makes this a very useful reference for anyone interested in the subject.

Using the ISO 56002 Innovation Management System

2021-06-29
 |  Business & Economics
Using the ISO 56002 Innovation Management System

Author: Sid Ahmed Benraouane

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781000373349

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 312

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In 2019, ISO Technical Committee 279 released a new international standard on innovation management system called ISO 56002:2019. The objective of this standard is to provide a framework on how to build an innovation ecosystem that can be sustained over time. Similar to the quality management system that ISO established decades ago, this standard provides instructions related to best practices on how to manage innovation activities, projects, and programs. It does not describe detailed activities within the organization, but rather provides guidance at a general level. It does not prescribe any requirements or specific tools or methods for innovation activities. Essentially, the standard does not provide guidance on how to implement and/or use the standard. The standard basically tells you what to do and document -- this powerful book tells you how to do it. The techniques in this book are directed at key tasks across the innovative process, such as maximizing quality, productivity, maintainability, usability, and reliability, while focusing on reducing the product cycle time and costs within the innovative process. Currently, there are no other comprehensive books available on how to fully implement this standard in companies -- This book is crucial for managers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and consultants looking for help to reap the benefits of an innovation management system. This book takes you step by step through the process of developing an innovation ecosystem. In addition, it provides frameworks, tools, methodologies, cases, and best practices so your organization can experience the full value of the standard.

Higher Education in the Arab World

2020-06-10
 |  Education
Higher Education in the Arab World

Author: Adnan Badran

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030378349

Category: Education

Page: 385

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This book is the first major account of innovation and entrepreneurship in the Arab higher-education sector. It provides an update of the current situation and advances reasons for the under-performance of Arab universities in international ranking tables and the weaknesses of Arab economies. Specific proposals are made for upgrading curricula and assessment procedures as well as providing an environment that fosters innovation and entrepreneurial behaviour. The roles of university-based technology and business parks are examined, with examples of successful business partnerships in the Arab region, Europe, and North America. Opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship have never been greater with the wealth of rapidly developing transformative technologies that are driving the international knowledge economy. This book puts forward proposals for the management and exploitation of intellectual property, and for establishing businesses.

Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms

2018-12-07
 |  Business & Economics
Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms

Author: Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351016148

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 228

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What is the role of culture in the innovation dynamic of small firms within the context of their territorial environments? How do shared values, beliefs and practices underpin the knowledge production process that leads to innovation? In what way do symbolic aspects of social life shape European SMEs’ innovation processes? This volume gives an extensive insight into the complex links between culture and innovation in one of the key agents of economic life: SMEs and micro firms. The chapters employ different analytical and methodological strategies in regions of Europe to identify dimensions of culture, especially values, norms, skills and institutions, and to scrutinize which specific components of culture are relevant to firm innovation and to the more general dynamics of regional innovation. The original research presented shows how small firms learn, interact, compete and collaborate with other key agents of the innovation system. Taken as a whole, the volume points the way towards a more comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of innovation in SMEs and micro firms. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Innovation in an Advanced Consumer Society

2016
 |  Business & Economics
Innovation in an Advanced Consumer Society

Author: Peder Inge Furseth

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780198705116

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 207

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This book aims to develop innovation theory by focusing on innovation in a consumer society. In an advanced consumer society, services dominate and are provided through digital as well as physical channels by local, national and global firms. This book aims to identify the ways in which value can be increased for all stakeholders through both incremental and disruptive innovation. When interacting with leading businesses, there is a common acceptance that we need a better understanding of how to innovate in a service economy. Today, most advanced economies are service and knowledge based, accounting for about 70 percent of GDP. OECD reports document a considerable knowledge gap related to service innovation. It is a challenge for both business and society that future economic growth will increasingly be based on services rather than manufacturing and products. Failing to understand innovation issues in this context as an engine for growth is somewhat alarming. This raises the question: do we know how to innovate successfully in a consumer driven society? In this book, the authors develop the concept of Value Driven Service Innovation, alongside a methodology for applying this approach in practice: the Service Innovation Triangle. They develop a better understanding of innovation, based on the uniqueness of services in order to develop the theory of service innovation suitable for a consumer society.

Human Specialization in Design and Technology

2020-12-29
 |  Education
Human Specialization in Design and Technology

Author: Patricia A. Young

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000334944

Category: Education

Page: 138

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Human Specialization in Design and Technology explores emerging trends in learning and training—standardization, personalization, customization, and specialization—with a unique focus on innovations specific to human needs and conditions. Analyzing evidence from current academic research as well as the popular press, this concise volume defines and examines the trajectory of instructional design and technologies toward more human-centered and specialized products, services, processes, environments, and systems. Examples from education, healthcare, business, and other sectors offer real-world demonstrations for scholars and graduate students of educational technology, instructional design, and business development. The book features insights into the future of professors, public schools, equity and access, extended technologies, open educational resources, and more, concluding with a set of concrete solutions.