CHAPTER 8Making New Product Creation a Repeatable Business Practice

The message for the transformative leader about effective new product creation is simple: innovation can and must be practiced as a repeatable process. Yet even in the most successful companies such a process is usually not practiced consciously and repeatably. Our 35 years of business experience has convinced us that unless an activity is in the form of a describable process, it will not be consistently practiced, nor will it be transferred as an organizational skill to others.

Moreover, product innovation is an offensive weapon much more than a defensive one. Truly innovative products are by far the best weapons in corporate warfare. Yet one great product alone does not produce ...

Get Leadership Pure and Simple: How Transformative Leaders Create Winning Organizations now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.