Book description
Strategic Innovation offers a flexible, customizable template that managers, executives, and business leaders can use to introduce an effective innovation strategy throughout their organization. The authors, Nancy Tennant Snyder and Deborah L. Duarte, provide the tools needed to craft a workable strategy for embedding innovation as a core competency across an enterprise. Instead of innovation for innovation's sake, the authors offer a proven business-focused way to change a culture from point-in-time innovations from a few to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyone.
Based on the real-life example of Whirlpool a solid company with a significant track record and global reach—Strategic Innovation shows how the world's largest appliance company put innovation in place as a core competency. During this process, Whirlpool transformed itself from a quality producer of appliances to a customer-focused company that strategically embeds innovation throughout the organization. Filled with challenges and struggles, and ultimately successful results, the Whirlpool story can help any organization develop a successful innovation strategy. Written as a practical guide, the book contains in each chapter a variety of hands-on resources including checklists and worksheets. Strategic Innovation offers the tools, ideas, and approaches needed for transforming an organization to a company where anyone and everyone can contribute to the organization's prosperity—through innovation.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- EXHIBITS AND WORKSHEETS
- Foreword
- PREFACE
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- THE AUTHORS
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CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Innovation as a Core Competency
- THE END OF AN ERA
- INNOVATION TO THE RESCUE
- REMOVING THE BARRIERS WITH INNOVATION
- DEFINING INNOVATION
- ORGANIZATIONAL CORE COMPETENCIES
- THE STRUGGLE TO EMBED CORE COMPETENCIES
- THE BEGINNING OF INNOVATION AT WHIRLPOOL
- SEEKING MODELS AND PARTNERS
- DETERMINING TO TAKE OUR OWN JOURNEY WITH A LONE GUIDE
- HARNESSING THE RESOURCES AND LEADERSHIP
- THE WHIRLPOOL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR INNOVATION
- WHAT WE LEARNED
- SELF-ASSESSMENTS: GETTING STARTED IN INNOVATION
- CHAPTER TWO: Reinventing the Wheel
- CHAPTER THREE: Vision and Goals
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CHAPTER FOUR: Leader Accountability and Development
- OVERCOMING THE LEADER-AS-VILLAIN MENTALITY
- EXPECTATIONS, ACCOUNTABILITIES, AND BEHAVIORS
- INNOVATION AT THE TOP LEADERSHIP LEVEL
- CHANGING THE CULTURE: INNOVATION BEHAVIORS FOR ALL LEADERS
- THE BIG SURPRISE ABOUT LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITIES
- DEVELOPING INNOVATION SKILLS IN LEADERS
- WHAT WE LEARNED
- Self-Assessment: Leadership in Your Company
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CHAPTER FIVE: Culture and Values
- A SHORT HISTORY OF CULTURE AT WHIRLPOOL
- STARTING INNOVATION EMBEDMENT: WHIRLPOOL'S CULTURE AND VALUES
- CULTURAL ASSESSMENT FOR INNOVATION READINESS
- CULTURAL CHANGE AND THE EMBEDMENT WHEEL
- CULTURAL CHANGE AT WHIRLPOOL: DIGGING DEEPER INTO RISK TAKING
- TWEAKING WHIRLPOOL'S CULTURE FOR THE REST OF THE EMBEDMENT WHEEL
- OUR VALUES TODAY
- WHAT WE LEARNED
- SELF-ASSESSMENT: BRINGING INNOVATION TO YOUR ORGANIZATION
- CHAPTER SIX: Resource Creation: Open Markets for Funds, Ideas, and Talent
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CHAPTER SEVEN: Knowledge Management and Learning Systems: Democratizing Innovation
- THE FIRST KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT EFFORT: I-PIPE
- THE SECOND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT EFFORT: INNOVATION E-SPACE
- FURTHER STEPS: DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO FEED INNOVATION
- DEVELOPING THE CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE SITE
- WHAT WE LEARNED
- SELF-ASSESSMENT: GETTING READY FOR AN EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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CHAPTER EIGHT: Integrating Strategic Communications with Change Management
- THE PATH OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT AT WHIRLPOOL
- FINDING THE PATH TO STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
- THE BIG REVELATION ABOUT CHANGE AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
- BUILDING A NEW CHANGE MODEL
- FOCUSING AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL: DEEP DIVE INTO CHANGE
- THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS IN THE THREE LEVELS OF OUTCOMES
- WHAT WE LEARNED
- SELF-ASSESSMENT: CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONs PLAN
- CHAPTER NINE: Rewards and Recognition: The Informal Embedment Category
- CHAPTER TEN: Measurement and Reporting Systems and Systems Alignment
- EPILOGUE
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Strategic Innovation: Embedding Innovation as a Core Competency in Your Organization
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2003
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780787964054
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