Ideas And Innovative Organizations

Author : Albert H. Segars
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Leadership
ISBN : 1433174642

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Ideas and Innovative Organizations by Albert H. Segars Pdf

A tribal approach to innovation is found within cutting-edge organizations that pursue ideas and initiatives that are extraordinary. This approach is driven by groups of people that have an ambitious mandate, positive values or codes of conduct, well-defined roles, robust flows of knowledge, the ability to endure hardship, an analytical focus, and a willingness to sacrifice. Together, these attributes signal a favorable predisposition to discover breakthrough ideas and navigate difficult projects. This approach is manifest in modern day super projects such as the Event Horizon Telescope as well as historical initiatives such as the invention of flight by the Wright Brothers. For leaders and team members, the tribal framework provides a perspective for measuring the capacity of a team to generate novel ideas and see those ideas through to a successful conclusion.

Author : Anna Simpson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137483027

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The Innovation-Friendly Organization by Anna Simpson Pdf

This book explores five cultural traits – Diversity, Integrity, Curiosity, Reflection, and Connection – that encourage the birth and successful development of new ideas, and shows how organizations that are serious about innovation can embrace them. Innovation – the driver of change and resilience – It is totally dependent on culture, the social environment which shapes how ideas emerge and evolve. Ideas need to breathe, and culture determines the quality of the air. If it’s stuffy and lacks flow, then no idea, however brilliant, will live long enough to fulfil its potential. Creating these innovation-friendly conditions is one of the key challenges facing organizations today, and one that is especially difficult for them – focused as they are on efficiency and control. Innovation, Anna Simpson argues, begins with diversity of thought and attitude: the opposite of conformity and standardisation. Likewise, with ongoing pressures to deliver results before yesterday, how can organizations allow sufficient space for the seemingly aimless process of following interesting possibilities and pondering on the impact of various options? Anna Simpson shows how large organizations can adapt their culture to enable the exchange of different perspectives; to support each person to bring their whole self to their work; to embrace the aimlessness that fosters creative experimentation; to take the time to approach change with the care it deserves, and – lastly – to develop the collective strength needed to face the ultimate ‘sledgehammer test’.

Author : Michael D. Mumford,E. Michelle Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351755559

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Creativity and Innovation in Organizations by Michael D. Mumford,E. Michelle Todd Pdf

This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level, team-level, and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors, this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations. Chapter authors not only discuss the abilities, personality, and motivational attributes that contribute to employee creativity, but they also address the impact of leadership and climate on creative performance in teams. Subsequently, firm-level influences such as planning, learning, strategy, and professions that influence the success of creative and innovative efforts are examined. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this book offers a comprehensive review of creativity and innovation to assist researchers and practitioners in their quests to understand and improve organizational creativity and innovation. This is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, or graduate students interested in creativity, innovation, and organizational behavior.

Author : Thomas Lockwood,Edgar Papke
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781632658906

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Innovation by Design by Thomas Lockwood,Edgar Papke Pdf

Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap into, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities. But they also report struggling with how to engage their cultures to implement the changes necessary to maximize their innovative targets. In Innovation by Design, authors Thomas Lockwood and Edgar Papke share the results of their study of some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including: The 10 attributes leaders can use to create and develop effective cultures of innovation. How to use design thinking as a powerful method to drive employee creativity and innovation. How to leverage the natural influence of the collective imagination to produce the “pull effect” of creativity and risk taking. How leaders can take the “Fifth Step of Design” and create their ideal culture. Innovation by Design offers a powerful set of insights and practical solutions to the most important challenge for today’s businesses—the need for relevant innovation.

Author : Howard Wright
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814382625

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100 Great Innovation Ideas by Howard Wright Pdf

Companies that fail to innovate will, like prehistoric dinosaurs, eventually disapper from the face of the earth. This book contains 100 great innovation ideas, extracted from the world’s best companies.Ideas provide the fuel for individuals and companies to create value and success. Indeed the power of ideas can even exceed the power of money. One simple idea can be the catalyst to move markets, inspire colleagues and employees, and capture the hearts and imaginations of customers. This book can be that very catalyst. Each innovation idea is succinctly described and is followed by advice on how it can be applied to the reader’s own business situation. A simple but potenitally powerful book for anyone seeking new inspiration and that killer application.

Author : John Adair
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749460112

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Leadership for Innovation by John Adair Pdf

New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how do you create the right conditions for innovation? Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, John Adair sets out practical ways for bringing about change in organizations. As well as identifying the characteristics of an innovative organization, he discusses key topics such as organizing for team creativity; motivating creative people, how to build on ideas and how to be a creative leader and team member. Leadership for Innovation will help you to inspire your team to go that one step further and generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success.

Author : Dean M. Schroeder,Alan G. Robinson
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459676122

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The Idea-Driven Organization by Dean M. Schroeder,Alan G. Robinson Pdf

Most companies, if they solicit employee ideas at all, essentially just set up a suggestion box, which employees know from experience is where ideas go to die. So nothing happens. But innovation is not an option - it's the key to survival. And innovation needs new ideas. So where are those ideas going to come from? Using numerous examples, Robinson and Schroeder argue that the employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services are in the best position to see where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. Robinson and Schroeder explain how leaders can build the kind of idea - driven company capable of implementing fifty to a hundred or more ideas per employee per year. Drawing on their work with companies worldwide, they show what's needed to put together a management team open to grassroots innovation and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that encourage - and those that discourage - employee ideas. They detail exactly how high - performing idea processes work and how to design one customized for your organization - including advice for teaching people how to come up with new ideas. The best ideas may come from the bottom, but they have to be systematically solicited from the top.

Author : David G. Gliddon,William J. Rothwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351712699

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Innovation Leadership by David G. Gliddon,William J. Rothwell Pdf

A leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth. Gliddon and Rothwell provide an exciting and comprehensive resource for readers that are currently seeking to build success in organizations with new ideas. Innovation leadership involves synthesizing different leadership styles in organizations to influence employees to produce creative ideas, products, services, and solutions. It is a practice and an approach to organization development and organizational change. Innovation leadership commonly includes four basic stages, which are: (a) support for idea generation, (b) identifying innovations, (c) evaluating innovations, and (d) implementation. There are two types of innovations, including: (a) exploratory innovation, which involves generating brand new ideas, and (b) value-added innovation, which involves modifying and renewing ideas that already exist. The two fundamental leadership theories that are generally necessary for innovation leadership are path-goal theory and Leader Member Exchange theory. The key role in the practice of innovation leadership is that of the innovation leader. However, there are currently multiple perspectives on the definition of an innovation leader. An individual in an organization, a group within an organization, the organization itself, and even a community, state, or nation can be considered an innovation leader. The book explores each of these perspectives on the definition of an innovation leader.

Author : Richard L. Daft,Selwyn William Becker
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Educational innovations
ISBN : UCAL:B4978507

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The Innovative Organization by Richard L. Daft,Selwyn William Becker Pdf

Author : Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626561250

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The Idea-Driven Organization by Alan G. Robinson,Dean M. Schroeder Pdf

“Examples from all over the world make it fun to read…convincingly demonstrate[s] the power of incorporating frontline thinking into your organization.” —Marshall Goldsmith, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Triggers Too many organizations overlook, or even suppress, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation—and it’s right under their noses. The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services have unparalleled insights into where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. In this follow-up to their bestseller Ideas Are Free, Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder show how to align every part of an organization around generating and implementing employee ideas and offer dozens of examples of what a tremendous competitive advantage this can offer—not just for revenue but for worker retention. Their advice enables leaders to build organizations capable of implementing twenty, fifty, or even a hundred ideas per employee per year. Citing organizations from around the world, they explain what’s needed to put together a management team that embraces grassroots ideas and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that enable them. They detail exactly how high-performing idea processes work and how to design one for your organization. There’s pressure today to do more with less. But cutting wages and benefits and pushing people to work harder with fewer resources can go only so far. Ironically, the best solution resides with the very people who’ve been bearing the brunt of these measures. With this book, you can unleash a constant stream of great ideas that will strengthen every facet of your organization.

Author : John Eric Adair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Creative ability in business
ISBN : 8175543671

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Leadership For Innovation by John Eric Adair Pdf

New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how do you create the right conditions for innovation? "Leadership for Innovation" will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, John Adair sets out practical ways for bringing about change in organizations. As well as identifying the characteristics of an innovative organization, he discusses key topics such as organizing for team creativity; motivating creative people, how to build on ideas and how to be a creative leader and team member. "Leadership for Innovation" will help you to inspire your team to go that one step further and generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success.

Author : Bernd X. Weis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642541711

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From Idea to Innovation by Bernd X. Weis Pdf

The book assists in bringing together the three stakeholders of an innovation – inventor, decision maker and organization. These stakeholders have conflicting requirements and the book offers advice on how and by what methods they can communicate and the information that is expected and required in different phases of innovation. The perspectives of inventor, decision maker and organization are integrated in a business model that enables a common “language” and communication platform for the inevitably emerging tension field and that allows for asking and answering the right questions.

Author : Paul C. Wilson
Publisher : Coach OI
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781652568186

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Organizational Innovation by Paul C. Wilson Pdf

Build radically better organizations using lessons from Silicon Valley. No other book will show how Silicon Valley startups work, in a way that can be implemented, in organizations around the world. We merge existing standalone practices like Design Thinking, Change Management, Project Management, and Agile into a modern, Silicon Valley inspired concept called 'Organizational Innovation.' Takeaways from this book will help you implement an Innovation Transformation that will help managers coach their teams to find and implement radically better ways of working. This book is a career-changer for business leaders. Leaders who are forward-thinking and want what's best for their business will quickly recognize that they can co-create the future with their employees. They will learn how to use OI as a platform for finding and developing manager coaches and employee innovators who want to radically improve how they work. Through the experience of founding four startups in Silicon Valley, Paul observed that businesses there strategically prioritize empowering employees to find radically better ways of working. He wrote this book to grow an idea that encapsulates this strategic prioritization of employee-driven internal innovation. He calls it 'Organizational Innovation' and believes that any organization can use it to design, transform and scale radically better ways of working.

Author : Julia Dall
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656084402

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Innovative products in creative companies: how to manage to develop them by Julia Dall Pdf

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, Freie Universität Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Environment, both social and institutional, plays nearly the main part in establishment of creativity in the company. It exists on every enterprise and can serve as the base for spreading the ideas and attitudes to work among the staff, especially in the hands of experienced leaders. Technology in terms of our topic is an educational element in the system of management. Openness and Diversity represent the collective of the company, when different people, sometimes employees of different positions and statuses are open for communication and equal collaboration in the name of the firm's progress and prosperity. And of course the main part in creativity is Human Capital. They are part of the environment, they can alter the environment and together in cooperation they can create innovative ideas. Usually human capital is most flexible and therefore most creative at the time of the company's start up, when there is no gap between the leaders of the company and the other staff. Leaders think globally and with their own example infect the ordinary staff in close communication with ideas and with the need to innovate. But with the company's growth, the amount of the staff grows, there appears the middle layer - managers, who become the connecting link between the leaders of the firm and the staff, and the feeling of unity usually weakens and finally disappears. After analyzing information about how creational the management system of big market players is we found that not every company's creational environment can fight the crisis of becoming a solid corporation. Information technology in its turn is the field which has more opportunities for innovation and creation than any other due to the fact that it is a new and still developing sphere. That is why we were interested to study an example of a company dealing

Author : Alan G Robinson,Dean M Schroeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1038727227

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The Idea-Driven Organization by Alan G Robinson,Dean M Schroeder Pdf

Most companies, if they solicit employee ideas at all, essentially just set up a suggestion box, which employees know from experience is where ideas go to die. So nothing happens. But innovation is not an option - it's the key to survival. And innovation needs new ideas. So where are those ideas going to come from? Using numerous examples, Robinson and Schroeder argue that the employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services are in the best position to see where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. Robinson and Schroeder explain how leaders can build the kind of idea - driven company capable of implementing fifty to a hundred or more ideas per employee per year. Drawing on their work with companies worldwide, they show what's needed to put together a management team open to grassroots innovation and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that encourage - and those that discourage - employee ideas. They detail exactly how high - performing idea processes work and how to design one customized for your organization - including advice for teaching people how to come up with new ideas. The best ideas may come from the bottom, but they have to be systematically solicited from the top.