The Innovation Zone How Great Companies Re-Innovate for Amazing Success

by Koulopoulos, Thomas M.

• ISBN13: 9781857885798
• ISBN10: 1857885791
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-16
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Summary

Innovation has become a mantra for organizations facing unprecedented market pressures and worldwide competition. But can it be taught or developed as a core competency? Are there rules for turning great ideas into breakthrough innovations that alter behavior and culture, change the company-customer relationship, and carve out a path to global business success? Profiling dozens of today's most innovative organizations, The Innovation Zone delivers a new play-book for creating a structured business model of innovation that focuses on process, not products, to generate sustainable value and competitive dominance. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thomas Koulopoulos is president of The Delphi Group, an Inc. 500 technology management and advisory company whose client list includes the Mayo Clinic, FBI, NYSE, Air France, CitiCorp, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, and others. A noted expert and author on business and technology innovation, he also is currently Executive Director at the Center for Business Innovation at Babson College and a frequent contributor to Forbes, BusinessWeek, NPR, and CNN.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
About the Author	p. xix
Introduction: Innovation in an Era of Uncertainty	p. xxi
Unexpected Possibilities	p. l
Building an Innovation Process	p. 27
Leading Innovation	p. 45
Innovation 2.0	p. 67
Open-Minded Innovation	p. 85
The Seven Lessons of Innovation	p. 105
Measurement and Technology in Innovation	p. 135
Globalization and a National Innovation Agenda	p. 151
Epilogue	p. 171
Appendix	p. 177
Notes	p. 195
Index	p. 197
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