Strategic Management of Innovation and Design

by Pascal Le Masson , Benoît Weil , Armand Hatchuel

• ISBN13: 9780521768771
• ISBN10: 0521768772
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

There is now widespread agreement that innovation holds the key to future economic and social prosperity in developed countries. Experts studying contemporary capitalism also agree that the battle against unemployment and relocations can only be won through innovation. But what kind of innovation is required and what is the best way to manage, steer and organize it? Grounded on experiences of innovative firms and based on the most recent design theories, this book argues that instead of relying on traditional R&D and project management techniques, the strategic management of innovation must be based on innovative design activities. It analyses and explains new management principles and techniques that deal with these activities, including innovation fields, lineages, C-K (Concept-Knowledge) diagrams and design spaces. The book is ideal for advanced courses in innovation management in industrial design schools, business schools, engineering schools, as well as managers looking to improve their practice.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of cases

Preface 1 Paul Rivier

Preface 2 Marc Maurer

Introduction: from R&D to RID

From Innovation to Innovative Design

What do we know about innovation? Testing the economic and social sciences

Management sciences and innovation: identity of objects and innovation capability

The design activity and innovation capability

Design Capacities in Innovative Firms

Highly innovative firms: Tefal 1974-1997 - the Wizards of Rumilly

A model of the innovative firm: design strategy, metabolism and growth regime

Grafting the Tefal model: astonishing performance from an innovative start-up

Rebuilding Innovation Capabilities

Large firms and intensive innovation: the recurring R&D crises

From R&D to RID: missions and organizations of innovative design

Learning from experience: expansions from the innovative windscreen at Saint-Gobain Sekurit

Innovative Design: Tools and Organizations

The methodologies of innovative design: C-K theory, innovation fields and design spaces

Type 1 innovation fields: design in the search for new values - the innovative forms of user-involvement

Type 2 innovation fields: design by drastic technological change and by regenerating functions

Type 3 innovation fields: combining scientific research and conceptual innovation

The inevitable return to rule-based design

Innovative design, platforms and open innovation: the management of exploratory partnerships

Conclusion: the governance of innovative design, a third era of modern management?

Bibliographical appendix. Innovation viewed by the different disciplines: an extended survey

Postface

Innovative design glossary

Bibliography

Index

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