Innovation And Renewal

Author : John W. Gardner
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781789120073

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Self-Renewal by John W. Gardner Pdf

“The only stability possible is stability in motion.”—John William Gardner In his classic treatise Self-Renewal, John W. Gardner examines why great societies thrive and die. He argues that it is dynamism, not decay, that is dramatically altering the landscape of American society. The twentieth century has brought about change more rapidly than any previous era, and with that came advancements, challenges, and often destruction. Gardner cautions that “a society must court the kinds of change that will enrich and strengthen it, rather than the kind of change that will fragment and destroy it.” A society’s ability to renew itself hinges upon its individuals. Gardner reasons that it is the waning of the heart and spirit—not a lack of material might—that threatens American society. Young countries, businesses, and humans have several key commonalities: they are flexible, eager, open, curious, unafraid, and willing to take risks. These conditions lead to success. However, as time passes, so too comes complacency, apathy, and rigidity, causing motivation to plummet. It is at this junction that great civilizations fall, businesses go bankrupt, and life stagnates. Gardner asserts that the individual’s role in social renewal requires each person to face and look beyond imminent threats. Ultimately, we need a vision that there is something worth saving. Through this vision, Gardner argues, society will begin to renew itself, not permanently, but past its average lifespan, and it will at once become enriched and rejuvenated.

Author : Aybars Tuncdogan,Adam Lindgreen,Henk Volberda,Frans van den Bosch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429603686

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Strategic Renewal by Aybars Tuncdogan,Adam Lindgreen,Henk Volberda,Frans van den Bosch Pdf

Strategic Renewal is an original research anthology offering insight into a subject area which, although critical for the sustained success of organizations, has received relatively little attention as distinct from the more general phenomenon of strategic change. Firstly, by providing a summary of the literature, this research anthology helps graduate students and new researchers grasp the current state of affairs in the field. Secondly, this research anthology will help update the knowledge base of the existing researchers in the field. By bringing together various studies, the research anthology determines the core concepts of the field and elucidates the key gaps and future research areas. Through contributions building on the knowledge bases of other disciplines, this research anthology develops an interdisciplinary research agenda, giving the reader an in-depth understanding of the mediating, moderating, and antecedent variables concerning strategic renewal. Strategic Renewal aims to provide a state-of-understanding to the subject, as well as a clear picture of the cross-disciplinary landscape that informs the subject. Thus, this research anthology is essential reading for managers, consultants, and other practitioners, as well as students and scholars of business.

Author : Nadine Massard,Corinne Autant-Bernard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315457680

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Geography of Innovation by Nadine Massard,Corinne Autant-Bernard Pdf

Within the European context of innovation for growth, public and corporate actors are faced with pressing questions concerning innovation policy and the return on public and private investment in innovation at the regional level. To help them answer these questions, researchers in the field of Geography of Innovation propose interesting developments and new perspectives for the analysis of localized innovation processes, interactions between science, technology and industry, and their impact on regional growth and competitiveness, offering new foundations for designing and evaluating public policies. The aim of this book is firstly to highlight major recent methodological advances in the Geography of Innovation, particularly concerning the measurement of spatial knowledge externalities and their impact on agglomeration effects. Strategic approaches using microeconomic data have also contributed to showing how firms’ strategies may interact with the local environment and impact upon agglomeration dynamics. Interesting new results emerge from the application of these new methodologies to the analysis of innovation dynamics in European regions and this book shows how they can help revisit some of the main tenets of received wisdom concerning the rationale and impact of public policies on the Geography of Innovation. This book was previously published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Author : Mark W. Johnson
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422124819

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Seizing the White Space by Mark W. Johnson Pdf

Transformational new growth remains the Holy Grail for many organizations. But a deep understanding of how great business models are made can provide the key to unlocking that growth. This text describes how companies can achieve transformational growth in new markets or, simply put, how they can seize the white space.

Author : Michael L. Tushman,Charles A. O'Reilly
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422158104

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Winning Through Innovation by Michael L. Tushman,Charles A. O'Reilly Pdf

Tushman and O'Reilly examine how leadership, culture, and organizational architectures can be both important facilitators of innovation and, not uncommonly, formidable obstacles. They demonstrate how to clarify today's critical managerial problems, use culture and commitment to promote innovation and implement strategy, and deal with changing innovation requirements as organizations evolve.

Author : H. James Harrington
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429756962

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Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship by H. James Harrington Pdf

People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas), problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error) and entrepreneurs (people who transform ideas into realities). Put them altogether they spell "innovator." Most innovative books today focus on ways to create new and unique ideas; some of them also address problem-solving, but this is less than 10% of the methodologies that the innovator needs to master. The approaches used in this book transform an idea into reality, or to put it another way, deliver innovative products to make a profit for the organization and instill pride in its employees. This means that every step in the process needs to have innovation applied to it in order to meet the expectations and demands of today's sophisticated customer. This book is designed to help the reader and their organization complete the complex process of bringing a new product to market by presenting what is expected at each step in the cycle and providing step-by-step instructions on what to do at each specific step. In large to mid-sized organizations this book is designed to help each individual understand how they fit into the innovative cycle and explains why they should be more creative related to the work they do and more conscious of the contributions they can make. It emphasizes the importance of every individual contributing to the organization's innovative process. The book is designed to help the organization understand its Innovation Systems Cycle. In the early part of the cycle it focuses on weeding out projects that do not have the potential to produce value-added results to the stakeholders. By using the guidelines outlined in this book, an organization can reduce its new project failure rate by as much as 50% which should result in almost doubling the organization’s new product output thereby increasing profits by as much as 15%.

Author : Thomas Heinze,Richard Münch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137594204

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Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal by Thomas Heinze,Richard Münch Pdf

This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization. Based on historical case studies and comparative empirical data, the book presents new and thought-provoking evidence that improves our knowledge and understanding about how new research fields are formed and how research organizations adapt to breakthroughs in science. While the book is firmly based in science history, it discusses more general sociological and policy propositions regarding scientific innovations and organizational change. The volume brings together leading scholars both from the United States and Europe.

Author : J. Saarinen,N. Rilla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230248625

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Changes in Innovation by J. Saarinen,N. Rilla Pdf

This book is a collection of articles all contributing to the theme of changes in innovation and innovation processes, and aims to create new knowledge about crucial issues in the Finnish and global innovation environment which forms critical intelligence in innovation strategies for firms and decision makers.

Author : Zenon S. Zannetos
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0666231222

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The Renewal Process and Obstacles to Innovation (Classic Reprint) by Zenon S. Zannetos Pdf

Excerpt from The Renewal Process and Obstacles to Innovation It appears to me that the maturity of firms and industries, and I even dare say economies, is a relative phenomenon and that most likely it is caused by constraints that we as managers, engineers and scientists impose on our imagination. Let us for a moment look at industrial history and draw some lessons. No one can ignore available empirical evidence that, in the United States, we have firms and industries that have matured and are declining. So that I may not alienate people and make foes out of friends, I will not mention specific firms by name, but instead I will concentrate on industries. Shoes, textiles, ships, steel, farm equipment, consumer electronics, automobiles, are but a few examples of industries where the United States was preeminent and lost its leading edge. In this sense these industries, in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Carmen Sirianni,Lewis Friedland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520926005

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Civic Innovation in America by Carmen Sirianni,Lewis Friedland Pdf

In this book, two leading experts on community action provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Sirianni Friedland examine civic innovation since the 1960s as social learning in four arenas (community organizing/development, civic environmentalism, community health, and public journalism), and they link local efforts to broader networks and to the development of "public policy for democracy." They also explore the emergence of a movement for civic renewal that builds upon the civic movements in these four arenas. In contrast to some recent studies that stress broad indicators of civic decline, this study analyzes innovation as a long process of social learning within specific institutional and policy domains with complex challenges and cross-currents. It draws upon analytical frameworks of social capital, policy learning, organizational learning, regulatory culture, democratic theory, and social movement theory. The study is based upon interviews with more than 400 innovative practitioners, as well as extensive field observation, case study, action research, and historical analysis.

Author : Mark W. Johnson
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422157145

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Seizing the White Space by Mark W. Johnson Pdf

Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth—but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson gives them the playbook. Leaving the rhetoric to others, Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. In a series of in-depth case studies, he goes on to vividly illustrate how companies are using innovative business models to seize their white space and achieve transformational growth by fulfilling unmet customer needs in their current markets; serving entirely new customers and creating new markets; and responding to tectonic shifts in market demand, government policy, and technologies that affect entire industries. He then lays out a structured process for designing a new model and developing it into a profitable and thriving enterprise, while investigating the vexing and sometimes paradoxical managerial challenges that have commonly thwarted so many companies in their unguided forays into the unknown. Business model innovators have reshaped entire sectors—including retail, aviation, and media—and redistributed billions of dollars of value. With road-tested frameworks, analytics, and diagnostics, this book gives executives everything they need to reshape their businesses and achieve transformative growth.

Author : John William Gardner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Education
ISBN : 0060802243

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Self-renewal by John William Gardner Pdf

"Gardner's is not a 'how-to-do-it' book for the conduct of modern society. It is something rarer these days and more basic: a 'why-to-do-it' book. Its impact on many readers is bound to be challenging and stimulating and even inspirational."-Clark Kerr, Science

Author : Transamerica Corporation
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015042395296

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The Competitive Challenge by Transamerica Corporation Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Creative ability in business
ISBN : 9868073855

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On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal by Anonim Pdf

On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal features the best thinking from top experts on strategic innovation, sparking creativity, and transforming organizations. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.

Author : Zenon S. Zannetos,Sloan School of Management
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341548937

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The Renewal Process and Obstacles to Innovation by Zenon S. Zannetos,Sloan School of Management Pdf

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