Book description
What are the types of innovation? How can you generate creative ideas for your business? How can you move from ideas to unleashing you innovation to the market? How can you combine your innovation with a strategic plan to move your company forward?
Get these questions answered with jargon-free, useable, practical tools and advice. The Innovator?s Toolkit offers you field-tested techniques and tips to ensure the successful development and implementation of your innovation.
Topics Include:
- Moving innovation to the market
- Making strategic, innovative moves and placing strategic bets
- Using projects to drive innovation to market
Readers can also access free interactive tools on the Harvard Business Essentials companion Web site at www.elearning.hbsp.org/businesstools.
Harvard Business Essentials
The Reliable Source for Busy Managers
The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience. To assure quality and accuracy, each volume is closely reviewed by a specialized content adviser from a world class business school. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking for a personal resource, these solution-oriented books offer reliable answers at your fingertips.
Table of contents
- Harvard Business Essentials - The New Manager’s Guide and Mentor
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 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 - Finding the Future
- 10 - Placing Strategic Bets
- 11 - Human Creativity
- 12 - Working Through Creative Groups
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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
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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
- No tes
- Glossary
- For Further Reading
- Index
- About the Subject Adviser
- About the Writer
- Need smart, actionable management advice? - Look no further than your desktop.
Product information
- Title: Innovator's Toolkit
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2009
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422135136
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