Disrupt Together How Teams Consistently Innovate

by Spinelli, Stephen, Jr.; McGowan, Heather

• ISBN13: 9780133384116
• ISBN10: 013338411X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-12
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

Spinelli and McGowan integrate a broad network of international leaders on innovation to demonstrate the tight linkages between innovation and opportunity recognition. Building on the award winning Philadelphia University curriculum redesign that is reshaping how innovation is taught worldwide, these experts highlight how to identify relevant opportunities more effectively than ever before. The team covers every facet of innovation, including design processes, team development, ethnography, audits and charrettes, opportunity shaping and assessment, business models, value delivery, systems thinking, and more. Master the art of innovation in teams! Disrupt Together introduces a breakthrough transdisciplinary, team-based approach to innovation that integrates business, design and engineering, and can deliver powerful results for both new ventures and existing companies with case study examples from education, healthcare, branding, and consumer product and service design. The book will serve as the definitive companion text for a growing number of innovation and entrepreneurship programs that either follow the Philadelphia University model or have been influenced by it. This guide will also be an indispensable resource for every business practitioner seeking to build innovative new organizations or reinvigorate innovation in existing firms. Contributors and Interviews from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, Continuum Innovation, Jump Associates, University of Pennsylvania, Becton Dickinson, Sapient Nitro, Ontario College of Art and Design, Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT Media Lab, Smart Design, and more. Foreword by Steve Blank.

Author Biography

Stephen Spinelli, Jr., Ph.D. (Philadelphia, PA) is President of Philadelphia University. He has led the university in introducing a new model for professional university education, Nexus Learning; and in launching the innovative College of Design, Engineering and Commerce based on transdisciplinary, active, real-world learning infused with the liberal arts. Spinelli held leadership positions at Babson College, including vice provost for entrepreneurship and global management; entrepreneurship division chair; and director, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship. He helped pioneer key Babson initiatives including the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. He co-authored New Venture Creation, 8E.

Table of Contents

Section 1. Opportunity Recognition and You

1. What to Expect from this Book

2. How and Why We Built DEC

Section 2. Process, Strengths and Teaming

3. Learning Styles, Process and Teaming

4. Introduction to Design Process

5. Leveraging Strength in the Process

Section 3. Opportunity Seeking

6. Ethnography 

7. Audits, Charrettes and Other Tools

Section 4. Opportunity Shaping

8. Introduction to the Business Model Framework

9. Assessing the Opportunity

Section 5 Value Delivery

10. Introduction to Systems Thinking

11 Complexity and Inspiration: Biomimicry

12. Social and Environmental Capital and Financial Resilience

Section 6 Conclusions and Inspirations

13. Culture vs. Strategy

14. Innovation Cycles and Traps

 

A pioneering new approach to teaching and learning innovation: breakthrough techniques addressing everything from teams and processes to culture and strategy.