Clients Driving Innovation

Author : Peter S. Brandon,Shu-Ling Lu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781444301359

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Clients Driving Innovation by Peter S. Brandon,Shu-Ling Lu Pdf

In recent years the construction industry has been criticised forlack of successful innovation compared to other major industries.The question of why the industry has not been seen to be innovativehas created concern among many involved with construction andproperty. The driving concern is where the motivation for thisinnovation should come from. Although construction clients havemade an impact in this area, the industry itself seems divided asto whether, when and where clients should drive the innovationprocess. Clients Driving Innovation brings together an international groupof researchers and practitioners to investigate the role of clientsin construction innovation. Written in three parts, it covers thecontext for innovation driven by clients, the client impact on theinnovation process and how new ideas can be pushed through intopractice. Numerous case studies illustrate the role clients canplay and the key issues that need to be addressed. With increasing interest in the contribution clients can make toconstruction innovation, Clients Driving Innovation will beessential reading for construction management researchers, majorconstruction contractors and clients and government policy makers.

Author : Tony Morgan
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781631576324

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Collaborative Innovation by Tony Morgan Pdf

Innovation can be a challenging subject. At its worst, it is a meaningless buzzword. At its best, it is a means of driving differentiating value for an organization. But how can innovation be consistently achieved in the context of a client–service provider relationship? This publication provides a practical framework, with clear supporting recommendations, for clients and service providers to work together to overcome challenges and successfully manage, develop, and deliver innovation as a key part of their ongoing service relationship. Real-world experience, guidance, and examples are provided to assist and enable organizations to gain additional value with their service partners through delivery of innovation by design rather than by accident. Although targeted at service relationships between clients and external service providers, the content and recommendations are equally applicable and relevant for enterprises driving innovation internally or as part of a wider ecosystem.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : 1741071569

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Clients Driving Construction Innovation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kaihan Krippendorff
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231548366

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Driving Innovation from Within by Kaihan Krippendorff Pdf

Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are society’s main source of innovation. Young founders leave college with a big idea, get to work in a garage, and build something that changes the world. Typical corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In Driving Innovation from Within, strategist and advisor Kaihan Krippendorff disproves one of today’s biggest business myths to highlight lessons for innovators and leaders. He reveals how many of the modern world’s most impactful creations were invented by passionate employee innovators. If it were left up to go-it-alone entrepreneurs, we would not have mobile phones, personal computers, or e-mail. Distilling more than 150 interviews with internal innovators and leading experts along with insights from the latest research and today’s most successful companies, from Tencent and Amazon to Mastercard and Starbucks, Krippendorff lays out a step-by-step playbook to unlock innovation from the inside. He maps the barriers that frustrate efforts to disrupt from within and provides tools to remove them, detailing how visionary leaders can create islands of freedom inside an organization to activate existing employees’ potential and beat startups at their own game. Driving Innovation from Within is a practical and inspiring guide to leadership from all levels for those who want the fulfillment of changing the world without leaving their job in order to do it.

Author : Kerry Brown,Keith Douglas Hampson,Peter S. Brandon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : 1741071283

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Clients Driving Construction Innovation by Kerry Brown,Keith Douglas Hampson,Peter S. Brandon Pdf

Author : Rob James,Jules Goddard
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781398601680

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Business Experimentation by Rob James,Jules Goddard Pdf

Business experimentation can not only create measurable value for organizations, it can provide the inspiration to break with the habits of the past by dealing with challenges and exploiting opportunities. This book is a step-by-step, practical guide to the six-stage business experiment process, from understanding the problem or opportunity to creating a hypothesis, planning the experiment and analysing the findings. It explores the top design criteria for successful and impactful business experiments and includes valuable case studies covering problem solving, performance improvement and strategic innovation. To support the process, Business Experimentation also includes downloadable, editable templates, worksheets and activities for use in ideation and planning sessions. This business experiment methodology can be used to support a one-off initiative or to underpin desired behaviours as part of a wider organizational change programme, as experimentation encourages people to be bold, take risks and seek new ways of doing things. Based on programmes the authors have run with a variety of leading organizations and with astonishing results, this practical guide provides businesses with the confidence to get started with experimentation and the tools to succeed.

Author : Kim Haugbølle,David Boyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317290056

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Clients and Users in Construction by Kim Haugbølle,David Boyd Pdf

Clients have been identified as critical for building delivery but have been under-researched with only a few studies about them. This book seeks to address this gap. A deeper look into the nature of construction clients and their relation to building users exposes more fundamental questions related to the activity of building and the activity in the building. These fundamental questions include 'How do clients get what they want?', 'How do clients cope with the building process?', and 'How are clients being shaped by building(s)?'. This book on clients and users is structured around three main themes: Agency is concerned with the classical agency/structure dichotomy on actions, roles and responsibilities or, put differently, whether actors can act freely or are bound by structural constraints. Governance is related to the interplay between clients and the supply system: clients govern the supply system but are at the same time governed by the supply system through different processes and mechanisms. Innovation deals with construction innovation and what part clients and users play in this struggle between change and stability. The book includes theoretical and conceptual frameworks on what constitutes clients and users as well as case studies on R&D themes of relevance to practice.

Author : Dennis Lenard,Yvette Eckersley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : 1876189142

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Driving Innovation by Dennis Lenard,Yvette Eckersley Pdf

Author : Robert B. Tucker
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781442963641

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Driving Growth Through Innovation by Robert B. Tucker Pdf

Author : Finn Orstavik,Andrew R. J. Dainty,Carl Abbott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118655597

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Construction Innovation by Finn Orstavik,Andrew R. J. Dainty,Carl Abbott Pdf

Construction innovation is an important but contested concept, both in industry practice and academic reflection and research. A fundamental reason for this is the nature of the construction industry itself: the industry and the value creation activities taking place there are multi-disciplinary, heterogeneous, distributed and often fragmented. This book takes a new approach to construction innovation, revealing different perspectives, set in a broader context. It coalesces multiple theoretical and practice-based views in order to stimulate reflection and to prepare the ground for further synthesis. By being clear, cogent and unambiguous on the most basic definitions, it can mobilise a plurality of perspectives on innovation to promote fresh thinking on how it can be studied, enabled, measured, and propagated across the industry. This book does not gloss over the real-life complexity of construction innovation. Instead, its authors look explicitly at the challenges that conceptual issues entail and by making their own position clear, they open up fresh intellectual space for reflection. Construction Innovation examines innovation from different positions and through different conceptual lenses to reveal the richness that the theoretical perspectives offer to our understanding of the way that the construction sector actors innovate at both project and organizational levels. The editors have brought together here leading scholars to deconstruct the concept of innovation and to discuss the merits of different perspectives, their commonalities and their diversity. The result is an invaluable sourcebook for those studying and leading innovation in the design, the building and the maintenance of our built environment.

Author : Kerry Brown,Keith Douglas Hampson,Peter S. Brandon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : 0975804715

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Clients Driving Construction Innovation by Kerry Brown,Keith Douglas Hampson,Peter S. Brandon Pdf

Author : Robert B. Tucker
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1576751872

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Driving Growth Through Innovation by Robert B. Tucker Pdf

Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth--greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Tucker provides a practical step-by-step method any business can use to identify opportunities and encourage innovations that capitalize on them.

Author : Henry Mason,David Mattin,Maxwell Luthy,Delia Dumitrescu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119076322

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Trend-Driven Innovation by Henry Mason,David Mattin,Maxwell Luthy,Delia Dumitrescu Pdf

Trend-Driven Innovation Beat accelerating customer expectations. Every business leader, entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer wants to know where customers are headed. The problem? The received wisdom on how to find out is wrong. In this startling new book, the team at TrendWatching share a powerful, counter-intuitive truth: to discover what people want next, stop looking at customers and start looking at businesses. That means learning how to draw powerful insights from the way leading brands and disruptive startups—from Apple to Uber, Chipotle to Patagonia—redefine customer expectations. Sharing the secrets that have led thousands of the world's most successful brands and agencies to rely on TrendWatching for over a decade, Trend-Driven Innovation is the book that will reconfigure your view of the business world forever. You'll learn: How to spot emerging trends using three crucial building blocks, and how to recognize the expectation gaps that herald opportunity. Why most professionals focus on precisely the wrong trends and innovations, and how to avoid this. How to turn trends and insights into innovations that customers will love. Amid the endless change that defines today's business environment, opportunity is everywhere. Highly practical, and featuring real-world examples from around the world, Trend-Driven Innovation is the actionable, battle-tested manual that will enable you harness those opportunities time after time. Setting you up to build an organization that matters, products customers love, and campaigns people can't stop talking about.

Author : Vijay Kumar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781118330241

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101 Design Methods by Vijay Kumar Pdf

The first step-by-step guidebook for successful innovation planning Unlike other books on the subject, 101 Design Methods approaches the practice of creating new products, services, and customer experiences as a science, rather than an art, providing a practical set of collaborative tools and methods for planning and defining successful new offerings. Strategists, managers, designers, and researchers who undertake the challenge of innovation, despite a lack of established procedures and a high risk of failure, will find this an invaluable resource. Novices can learn from it; managers can plan with it; and practitioners of innovation can improve the quality of their work by referring to it.

Author : Gordon H. Chong,Robert Brandt,W. Mike Martin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470916407

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Design Informed by Gordon H. Chong,Robert Brandt,W. Mike Martin Pdf

The Power of Evidence to Create Design Excellence This practical, accessible book—for design professionals and students alike—is about design excellence and how to achieve it. The authors propose an evidence-based design approach that builds on design ingenuity with the use of research in ways that enhance opportunities to innovate. They show the power of research data to both reveal new design opportunities and convince stakeholders of the value of extraordinary work. A guide for all designers who want to earn their place as their clients' trusted advisor and who aspire to create places of beauty and purpose, the book demonstrates: An approach to applying evidence to design that neither turns designers into scientists nor requires large-firm resources The wide range of types of evidence that can be applicable to design and where to look for it Direct, practical application of the evidence-based design approaches in use today Provides tools to distinguish strong evidence that can improve design decisions from misleading assertions resulting from weak research Benefits of evidence-based design, including improved human and building performance Two featured case studies illustrate the theory and practice of evidence-based design. The work of the authors' 2005–2007 AIA College of Fellows Benjamin Latrobe Research Fellowship provided an empirical foundation for this book, and addresses the use of rigorous research methods to understand relationships between design choices and health outcomes. The California Academy of Sciences, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Chong Partners Architecture, and Arup, provides transparent evidence that enhances building technology performance in the context of a powerful design expression. In-depth interviews and case studies are clustered around three research categories: modeling, simulation, and data mining; social and behavioral science and the physical and natural sciences; and including cutting-edge use of neuroscience to understand human response to physical environments. The twenty-two featured thought leaders include: William Mitchell, MIT Media Lab; Fred Gage, Salk Institute; Phil Bernstein, Autodesk; Sheila Kennedy, Kennedy & Violich; James Timberlake, KieranTimberlake; William and Chris Sharples, SHoP Architects; Vivian Loftness, Carnegie Mellon University; John Zeisel, Hearthstone; Paco Underhill, Envirosell; Susan Ubbelohde and George Loisos, Loisos+Ubbelohde Architecture-Energy; Chris Luebkeman, Arup; Martin Fischer, Stanford University CIFE; and Kevin Powell, GSA.