Book description
When a company can get its best ideas to market faster, its leaders can be confident that their most important strategic decisions will be executed faithfully, and their visions for the company’s future will be realized. They are also able to be agile in response to market changes, pursue new opportunities, and achieve ambitious plans for growth. High Velocity Innovation will show how companies accelerate growth with: The strategic elements that pull innovation from their best people A framework for driving innovation that overcomes roadblocks, cultural barriers, and the pressure to sustain the current business Leadership models and metrics for building high accountability and responsiveness into innovation systems A roadmap for accelerating innovation across your business, no matter where you are now Businesses like yours can establish strategies, systems, processes, and tools that build innovation velocity by addressing the root causes that lead to innovation disappointments. To succeed, your best ideas need solid execution without launch delays, budget overruns, or poor product/market fit. Not every idea will succeed—and not every idea should succeed. But a company’s best ideas can be identified and accelerated with High Velocity Innovation.Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
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PART ONE: WHY YOUR COMPANY NEEDS HIGH VELOCITY INNOVATION
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CHAPTER ONE: WHY INNOVATION PROGRAMS TAKE TOO LONG
- Innovation Management Is Counterintuitive
- Innovation Program Leaders Try to Do the Right Thing
- The Things People Do to Speed Up Innovation Slow It Down
- Wrong Methods for Innovation
- The Root Causes of Slow Innovation
- The Core Problem: Lack of Pull for Innovation
- People Become Innovative by Delivering Innovation
- Your Next Actions
- CHAPTER TWO: INNOVATION ACHIEVES VELOCITY THROUGH PULL
- CHAPTER THREE: THE HIGH VELOCITY INNOVATION SYSTEM
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CHAPTER ONE: WHY INNOVATION PROGRAMS TAKE TOO LONG
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PART TWO: THE ELEMENTS OF HIGH VELOCITY INNOVATION
- CHAPTER FOUR: STRATEGY THAT ACCELERATES INNOVATION
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE RAPID INNOVATION TEAM
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CHAPTER SIX: RAPID LEARNING CYCLES
- Rapid Learning Cycles Pulls Strong Innovation Practices
- Rapid Learning Cycles Adapts Agile
- The Nature of Work for a Physical Product
- Agile for Tangible Products Is Not as Helpful
- The Flow of Knowledge Into Design Decisions
- Pull Learning Forward—Push Decisions Later
- Rapid Learning Cycles Are Built Around Learning
- The Core Hypothesis Defines the Product
- Key Decisions Drive Product Success
- Knowledge Gaps Highlight Learning to Be Done
- Deliverables Encapsulate Decisions
- Learning Cycle Teams and Closing Knowledge Gaps
- Events Pull Real-Time Knowledge Capture
- Rapid Learning Cycles Pull Better Decisions
- Your Next Actions
- CHAPTER SEVEN: INNOVATION PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
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CHAPTER EIGHT: PLATFORMS AND EXTENSIBLE KNOWLEDGE
- Innovation Development Is Knowledge Development
- What Is Extensible Knowledge?
- The A3 Report for Capturing Knowledge
- Levels of Extensible Knowledge
- Building and Using Extensible Knowledge
- Cadenced Release Plans Pull Extensible Knowledge
- Technology Roadmaps to Build Extensible Knowledge
- Extensible Knowledge Drives High Velocity Innovation
- Your Next Actions
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CHAPTER NINE: HOW TO MEASURE HIGH VELOCITY INNOVATION
- Metrics for a Running Innovation Team to Track
- When It's Going Well, You'll Know
- Lead with Observations
- Metrics for Monitoring Innovation Programs
- How to Define a Metric
- The Balanced Scorecard for the Innovation Program
- Metrics that Waste Your Time
- Measuring the Pace of Innovation
- Organization-Level Metrics that Drive the Wrong Things
- What Do You See?
- What Keeps You up at Night?
- Your Next Actions
- PART THREE: HOW TO BUILD HIGH VELOCITY INNOVATION
- CONCLUSION: THE RIGHT IDEA AT THE RIGHT TIME
- APPENDIX A: BOOK STUDY GUIDE
- APPENDIX B: SYSTEMS AND TOOLS THAT SUPPORT HIGH VELOCITY INNOVATION
- APPENDIX C: PILOT PROGRAM GUIDE
- FURTHER READING
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Product information
- Title: High Velocity Innovation
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2019
- Publisher(s): Career Press
- ISBN: 9781632657763
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