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Saturday, 2 July 2011
The Oxford Handbook of Innovation (Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management)
This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from such diverse starting points that much of this literature can be missed, and so constructive dialogues missed.
The editors of The Oxford Handbook of Innovation have carefully selected and designed twenty-one contributions from leading academic experts within their particular field, each focusing on a specific aspect of innovation. These have been organized into four main sections, the first of which looks at the creation of innovations, with particular focus on firms and networks. Section Two provides an account of the wider systematic setting influencing innovation and the role of institutions and organizations in this context. Section Three explores some of the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy, and Section Four focuses on the consequences of innovation with respect to economic growth, international competitiveness, and employment.
An introductory overview, concluding remarks, and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this handbook a key introduction and vital reference work for researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation.
About the Series
Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the world's leading scholars on the subject to discuss current research and the latest thinking in a range of interrelated topics including Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Public Management, International Business, and many others. Containing completely new essays with extensive referencing to further reading and key ideas, the volumes, in hardback or paperback, serve as both a thorough introduction to a topic and a useful desk reference for scholars and advanced students alike.
Price: $185.00
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Thursday, 2 June 2011
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series)
In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.
Focusing on "disruptive technology" -- the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example -- Christensen shows why most companies miss "the next great wave." Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, The Innovator's Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.
Find out:
- When it is right not to listen to customers.
- When to invest in developing lower-performance products that promise lower margins.
- When to pursue small markets at the expense of seemingly
- larger and more lucrative ones.
Sharp, cogent, and provocative, The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the most talked-about books of our time -- and one no savvy manager or entrepreneur should be without.
Price: $35.00
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Innovation and Innovation Management - 'The Must-Knows'
Everybody in business and politics knows that innovation is vitally important, yet companies still struggle to innovate on a continual basis. One of the reasons for this is that there is considerable confusion about what innovation is (its definition); the vocabulary of innovation; and innovation's associated constructs. The following facts about innovation help reduce some of this confusion:
innovation is the profitable implementation of ideas
innovation is a multi-dimensional construct.
an innovation can be described by type (process, product, service, business model, value, market, brand, price, channel etc.).
and degree (incremental, semi-radical, radical, transformational etc.).
an innovation can be described as a user innovation (the developer benefits by using it) or
a manufacturer innovation (the developer benefits by selling it to a market).
a definition will emphasize a particular unit of analysis (e.g. task, project, individual, group, SBU, firm, region, or nation).
a definition can, therefore, take a broad or narrow perspective.
a definition can take a supply- or demand-side view.
viewing innovation as either product or process, while useful, is overly simplistic.
a sustaining innovation can be radical or incremental.
a disruptive innovation, by contrast, emphasizes a dimension of a product that incumbent firms' most profitable customers don't especially value.
the same author may use a number of different definitions, depending on which dimension is being discussed.
innovation can also be viewed as attitude: "There must be a better way."
Understand the above and you will be well on your way to understanding innovation and making it happen at your own organization.
Innovation is defined here as the profitable implementation of ideas. Update your knowledge of innovation and innovation management at the BrokenBulbs.com innovation blog. The blog focuses on innovation management in Asia and beyond and includes a combination of academic research on innovation and "real-world" experience. The above article was written by Gordon Graham, owner and writer of BrokenBulbs.com