Innovation Leaders How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation

by Deschamps, Jean-Philippe

• ISBN13: 9780470515242
• ISBN10: 0470515244
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-03
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Using real business experience and empirical research, Deschamps characterises a specific and distinctive form of leadership that stimulates and sustains innovation.

Author Biography

Jean-Philippe Deschamps is an innovation management practitioner with 40 years of international consulting experience. At IMD, which he joined in 1996 as professor of technology and innovation management, he focuses his research, consulting and teaching on the role of leaders in innovation. Before IMD, he was a vice president and practice leader with consulting firm Arthur D. Little. He co-authored the best-selling book Product Juggernauts: How Companies Generate Streams of Market Winners (Harvard Business School Press) and has given seminars and lectures throughout the world, including twice at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He graduated from HEC, INSEAD and Harvard Business School.

Table of Contents

Preface: Mapping the Innovation Leadership Territory	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Defining and Characterizing Innovation Leaders	p. 1
A Special Form of Leadership for Innovation?	p. 3
The Leadership Factor	p. 4
Facing the Innovation Imperatives	p. 8
Defining and Characterizing Innovation	p. 16
Innovation Leaders: A Different Breed?	p. 19
Mapping our Journey	p. 21
What's Special About Innovation Leaders?	p. 29
Innovation Leaders Share Six Attributes	p. 29
Innovation Leaders Tend to Focus on a Stage of Innovation	p. 43
Innovation Leaders Work on Process and Culture	p. 48
Stimulating Bottom-Up Innovation	p. 55
Encouraging Bottom-up Innovation: Classic Approaches	p. 56
Building an Innovation Culture: Four Drivers	p. 69
Steering Innovation Top Down	p. 93
Seeing Innovation as a Competitive Necessity	p. 94
Setting up a Process, Governance System and Organizational Mechanisms	p. 102
Mobilizing People on Innovation-Enhancing Campaigns	p. 116
Getting Involved in Innovation Searches and Projects	p. 125
Appointing an Innovation Conductor	p. 133
CTO or CIO?	p. 134
The First Mission of CTOs: Technological Innovation	p. 135
The Changing Role of CTOs: From Managing to Leading	p. 143
The Emerging Role of Corporate Entrepreneur	p. 155
Facing the Challenge as Part of the Top Executive Team	p. 157
The Leadership Imperatives of Innovation Strategies	p. 163
Recognizing the Leadership Imperatives of Your Innovation Strategy	p. 165
Formulating an Innovation Strategy	p. 167
Aligning Your Management Efforts with Your Strategy	p. 175
Activating Specific Change Levers to Support Your Strategy	p. 189
Leading the Development of New/Improved Products or Services Required: Team Sports Coaches to Foster Innovation Discipline	p. 197
Innovation Leaders as Tough Team Sports Coaches	p. 199
Straightening Out Medtronic's Innovation Process	p. 205
Limits of the 'Team Sports Coach' Leader	p. 215
Leading the Creation of a Totally New Product or Service Category Required: No-Nonsense Sponsors to Steer the New Venture	p. 225
Innovation Leaders as No-nonsense Sponsors	p. 226
New Business Creation at Tetra Pak: Reinventing the Food Can	p. 232
Evolving Leadership Imperatives in New Business Creation	p. 246
Leading the Creation of a Totally New Business System or Model Required: Pragmatic Architects to Put All System Elements in Place	p. 261
Innovation Leaders as Visionary but Pragmatic Architects	p. 263
TiVo: A Business System/Model Innovation	p. 268
Lessons from the TiVo Story	p. 284
Leading the Development of New/Improved Customer Solutions Required: Conductors to Deliver an Enhanced Customer Experience	p. 293
Innovation Leaders as Orchestra Conductors	p. 295
Senseo: An Innovative Customer Solution	p. 299
Building and Leading an Innovation-Focused Partnership	p. 317
Developing a Cadre of Innovation Leaders	p. 327
Building an Innovation Leadership Environment: The Logitech Case	p. 329
Logitech: Ordinary or Extraordinary Company?	p. 330
Logitech's Innovation-stimulating Drivers	p. 335
Logitech's Innovation-enhancing Culture and Values	p. 339
Logitech's Pragmatic and Effective Innovation Process	p. 348
Logitech's Future Challenges	p. 355
Attracting, Developing and Keeping Innovation Leaders	p. 359
Assessing Your Innovation Leadership Resources	p. 360
Selecting and Hiring Innovation Leaders	p. 365
Developing Innovation Leaders	p. 371
Retaining Innovation Leaders	p. 376
Innovation Leadership in a Nutshell	p. 377
Innovation in Leadership and Organizational Culture Models	p. 381
Guidelines for Using the Ideo Video for 'Idea Management' Training	p. 387
Factors Affecting the Innovation Climate of a Company	p. 397
Index	p. 407
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