Unleashing Innovation : How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry

by Nancy Tennant Snyder (St. Joseph, Missouri); Deborah L. Duarte (Herndon, Virginia)

• ISBN13: 9780470374412
• ISBN10: 0470374411
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

In publications such as BusinessWeek and Fast Company, the media have celebrated Whirlpool's transformation into a leading-edge innovator and Nancy Tennant Snyder's role as chief innovation officer. Ten years after this remarkable transformation, Unleashing Innovation tells the inside story of one of the most successful innovation turnarounds in American history. Nancy Tennant Snyder and coauthor Deborah L. Duarte reveal how Whirlpool undertook one of the largest change efforts in corporate history and show how innovation was embedded throughout the company, which ultimately lead to bottom-line results.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeff Fettig

Preface

Introduction

The Anatomy Of Innovation

Embedded Innovation in Action

Structuring and Sustaining Innovation: The Rational Framework and Emotional Drivers

Rational Drivers

The Strategic Architecture

Management Systems

The Innovation Pipeline

Innovation Mentors

Managing Execution and Results

Emotional Drivers

Learn

Dream

Create

Heroes

Spirit

Conclusion: The Innovation Journey

Epilogue: Dragons Be Here

References

Acknowledgments

The Authors

Index s, Earning Returns

Digging into the Framework

Writing Secure Code

Accessing Data

Working with the File System

Accessing the Internet

Creating Images

The Part of Tens

Ten Tips for Using the VB User Interface

Ten Ideas for Taking Your Next Programming Step

Ten Resources on the Internet

Index ate the design project and HDL codes

Create a testbench and perform the RTL simulation

Add a constraint file and synthesize and implement the code

Generate and download the configuration file to an FPGA device

Short tutorial on the ModelSim HDL simulator

Bibliographic notes

Suggested experiments

Gate-level greater-than circuit

Gate-level binary decoder

RT-level combinational circuit

Introduction

Operators

Arithmetic operators

Shift operators

Relational and equality operators

Bitwise, reduction, and logical operators

Concatenation and replication operators

Conditional operators

Operator precedence

Expression bit-length adjustment

Synthesis of z and x values

Always block for combinational circuit

Basic syntax and behavior

Procedural assignment

Variable data types

Simple examples

If statement

Syntax

Examples

Case statement

Syntax

Examples

The casez and casex statements

The full case and parallel case

Routing structure of conditional control constructs

Priority routing network

Multiplexing network

General coding guidelines for always block 60

Common errors in combinational circuit codes 60

Guidelines

Parameter and constant

Constant

Parameter

Use of parameter in Verilog-1995

Design examples

Hexadecimal digit to seven-segment LED decoder

Sign-magnitude adder

Barrel shifter

Simplified floating-point adder

Bibliographic notes

Suggested experiments

Multi-function barrel shifter

Dual-priority encoder

BCD incrementor

Floating-point greater-than circuit

Floating-point and signed integer conversion circuit

Enhanced floating-point adder

Regular Sequential Circuit

Introduction

D FF and register

Synchronous system

Code development

HDL code of the FF and register

D FF

Register

Register file

Storage components in a Spartan-3 deviceXilinx specific

Simple design examples

Shift register

Binary counter and variant

Testbench for sequential circuits

Case study

LED time-multiplexing circuit

Stopwatch 10

FIFO buf

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