Innovation to the core : a blueprint for transforming the way your company innovates /

Skarzynski, Peter.

Innovation to the core : a blueprint for transforming the way your company innovates / Peter Skarzynski, Rowan Gibson. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (xix, 295 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

The new innovation challenge -- Creating the preconditions for innovation -- Building a foundation of novel strategic insights -- Producing a torrent of new opportunities -- Innovating across the business model -- Asking the right questions at the right time -- Constructing an innovation architecture -- Managing and multiplying resources -- Pacing and derisking innovation investments -- Dynamically balancing supply and demand -- Building a systemic innovation capability -- Making innovation sustainable.

Building on the work of strategy guru Gary Hamel, this guide shows organizations how to move innovation from a buzz word to a core competency. Skarzynski, a consultant on international growth and strategy, and Gibson, a global business strategist, draw on a wealth of examples from real companies including GE, Procter and Gamble, Nokia, and IBM. They provide frameworks, step-by-step action lists, and other practical tools for improving an organization's capacity for innovation by mobilizing the imagination of employees, customers, and business partners.



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Organizational effectiveness.
Organizational change.
Leadership.


Electronic Books.

HD58 / .I566 2008