Managing Strategic Innovation and Change A Collection of Readings

by Tushman, Michael L.; Anderson, Philip C.

• ISBN13: 9780195100105
• ISBN10: 0195100107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The second edition of this successful book addresses how technologies evolve and how they drive the need for organizational change and adaptation. Focusing on the general-management challenges that innovative firms face, the editors draw from a variety of disciplines and demonstrate the linksbetween innovation, organizational competencies, organizational architectures, executive teams, and managing change.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction And Overview

Innovation Streams, Organization Designs, and Organizational Evolution

Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging

Innovation Over Time And In Historical Context

Technology Cycles

Managing Through Cycles of Technological Change

Technological Discontinuities and Flexible Production Networks: The Case of Switzerland and the World Watch Industry

Discontinuous Innovation, Disruptive Technology, and Technological Substitution

Gunfire at Sea: A Case Study of Innovation

Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and The Failure of Leading Firms

Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Existing Firms

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire and Rubber and the Radial Revolution

Dominant Designs

The Panda's Thumb of Technology

The Art of Standards Wars

Managing in an age of modularity

Era of Incremental Change

Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement

Tailoring Process Management to Situational Requirements: Beyond the Control and Exploration Dichotomy

Organization Architectures And Managing Innovation

Managerial Problem Solving: A Congruence Approach

Building Your Company's Vision

Managing Professional Careers: The Influence of Job Longevity and Group Age

Strong Cultures and Innovation: Oxymoron or Opportunity

Understanding Power in Organizations

The Weird Rules of Creativity

The Ambidextrous Organization: Managing Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change

Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities: A Paradox in Managing New Product Development

Innovation And Business Strategy

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

Strategy, Value Innovation, and the Knowledge Economy

Crafting R&D Project Portfolios

Knowledge, Learning, And Intellectual Capital

Making the Most of Your Company's Knowledge: A Strategic Framework

Crisis Construction and Organizational Learning: Capability Building in Catching-up at Hyundai Motor

Learning From Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries

Organizing Knowledge

Managing Linkages

Cross-Functional Linkages

Organizing and Leading "Heavyweight" Development Teams

Making Teamwork Work: Boundary Management in Product Development Teams

Organizational Linkages

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