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Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It, Updated Edition
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Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It, Updated Edition

by Tony Davila, Marc Epstein, Robert Shelton
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 47m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It, Updated Edition

3. Choosing Your Destiny: How to Design a Winning Innovation Strategy

Choosing the Right Strategy

“Innovation is a survival issue.”

—3M1

One of the first rules of innovation is that you must clearly decide how your organization is going to play the innovation game. This is senior management’s responsibility; there is no menu of generic strategies from which to choose. Each company’s management team has to craft its own innovation strategy, adapt to changing conditions, and choose the right time to make key moves.

The innovation strategy must support the business strategy. The amount and type of innovation (radical, semiradical, and incremental) varies depending on the strategy and the competitive environment. As with anything important, timing ...

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