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9780470906408

Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire : A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470906408

  • ISBN10:

    0470906405

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2010-09-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Essential strategies to transform your organization and boost your profitsWant to recapture your organization's original innovative spirit? Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire helps you remove the obstacles that have crippled the innovation superpowers that made your organization successful in the first place. Helps you identify the blockages hindering innovation within your organization Reveals the fundamental changes that will help your business rebuild its hidden or lost innovation capabilities Explores leading innovation theories you can apply right away-without expensive consultantsGet the strategies you need to remove innovation barriers, increase profits-and change the way you do business.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
About the Companion Website
Setting the Stage
Blinded by the Light (Vision Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
Innovation Vision Example (Alcatel-Lucent)
Innovation Vision Example (Kuwait Petroleum Corporation)
There is No Single Innovation Vision
Innovation Vision Case Study - Ford Motor Company
Innovation Vision Case Study - HP
Innovation Vision Case Study - Apple Computer
Innovation Vision Case Study - Nintendo
Innovation Vision Case Study - Walmart versus Amazon
Innovation Vision Case Study - Intel versus AMD, Qualcomm and Nvidia
Bringing it All Together
Peering in the Dark (Strategy Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
Strategy Must be Based in Reality
Two Sources of Innovation, One Innovation Strategy
Time as a Component of Innovation Strategy
Innovation Strategy Case Study - The Whirlpool Example
Innovation Case Study - Open Innovation at P&G
Not Just For Corporations
Innovation Maturity
Incremental versus Disruptive Innovation
Innovation Portfolios
Open Innovation
Bringing it All Together
Setting a Course Blindfolded (Goal Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
The Purpose of Innovation Goals
The Influence of Customer Permissions and Visual Frameworks on Your. Innovation Strategy and Goals
Setting Your Innovation Goals
Bringing it All Together
The Innovation Engine
What are they really thinking? (Insight Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
Four Lenses of Innovation
Broadcasting the Voice of the Customer
Trend Spotting, Behaviors, and Needs
Insights and Execution
Insights Case Study - Apple iPhone
Insights Case Study - Apple iPad
Are You Innovating for the Past or the Future?
Bringing it All Together
Shining a Light on the Customer Problem (Idea Generation Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
Generating Ideas
Idea Quantity
Idea Quality
Better Brainstorming
The Idea Generation S-Curve
The Nine Innovation Roles
Bringing it All Together
Picking a Winner Without Looking (Idea Evaluation Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
You Get What You Measure
Separate but Equal
Idea Evaluation Checklist
Idea Challenges
Parallel Idea Evaluation in a Serial World
Saying No in the Right Way
The Importance of "Not Now"
Bringing it All Together
Going to Market Blind (Idea Commercialization Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
Useful or Valuable
Slow Innovation
Slow Innovation Case Study - The iPod
Slow Innovation Case Study - The VCR
Slow Innovation Case Study - The Internet
Slow Innovation Case Study - Southwest Airlines
Slow Innovation - Conclusion
Idea Commercialization Stories - Apple Designs a "No!"
Lessons Learned
Bringing it All Together
The Organization
Have you had an Innovation Lobotomy? (Organizational Psychology Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
What are you afraid of?
The Impact of Culture
Organizational Hierarchy of Needs
Breaking Out of the Mold
Choose Your Own Hours - A Case Study in Flexibility
Bringing it All Together
Do Your Policies and Processes Keep People in the Dark? (Information and Structural Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
Some Secrets of Continuous Innovation are Nothing New
Should they call them silos or bunkers?
Get Your Hands Off My Bonus
Cisco - A Case Study in Breaking Down Information and Structural Barriers
Another Case Study - GE and Reverse Innovation
Bringing it All Together
Keeping the Lights On (Sustainability Blockages)
The Key Dangers
Overview
Who Innovates?
Innovating in a Crisis
Innovation is not a Project
If You Want Systemic Innovation You Need Systems to Manage It
Innovation versus Flexibility
Managing Innovation is About Managing Change - A Case Study
Purpose and Passion
Blogging Innovation as a Case Study in Passion
Passion versus Obsession
Innovation is Social
Bringing it All Together
Epilogue
Appendices
Customer Exploration
Defining the Customer Relationship
What level of customer permission do we have?
Level of Customer Permission versus Customer Relationship Type
Maximizing the Customer Relationship
Providing Real Value
Ensuring Useful Feedback on Permissions
Visual Frameworks for Guiding Your Innovation Efforts
Choosing and Communicating an Innovation Focus
The Airline Passenger Lifecycle - Visual Framework (Customer Journey)
Buying with Cash Online - Visual Framework (Customer Journey)
Lemonade Stand - Visual Framework (Operations)
Lemonade Stand - Visual Framework (Customer Journey)
The Innovation Baker's Dozen
About the Author
Index
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