Innovation Generation: Creating an Innovation Process and an Innovative Culture Reviews
June 28, 2010 by AboutNanoWires.com · Leave a Comment
Innovation Generation: Creating an Innovation Process and an Innovative Culture
Innovation is about creating the future…and making sure your organization is part of it. For successful innovation, an organization needs its people to be well connected, which is exactly what a highly-developed quality management system can do. This book shows that quality management and its associated efficiencies does not necessarily have to drive out the thinking time that is so critical to innovation. You can innovate and develop the products and services that the market needs tomorrow by following the two modes of operation described by noted author Peter Merrill: stay loose to create and conceptualize, and hang tight to develop the concept and commercialize.
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The Spider’s Strategy: Creating Networks to Avert Crisis, Create Change, and Really Get Ahead
June 18, 2010 by AboutNanoWires.com · 5 Comments
The Spider’s Strategy: Creating Networks to Avert Crisis, Create Change, and Really Get Ahead
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“Mukherjee beautifully weaves the ever-morphing web of technology, business, and organizational learning together and explains why both top executives and middle managers must care about their impact.”
Sudipta Bhattacharya
President, Invensys Wonderware
“The business world is moving toward non-hierarchical networks…. The answer to these changes is a combination of network management and collaborative leadership. Mukherjee…goes beyond description of best practices. The four Design Principles that he has developed to implement networks are conceptually well thought through and actionable. This book deserves to be read by anybody who is interested in tomorrow’s organization.”
Arnoud De Meyer
Director, Judge Business School, Cambridge University
“An ‘adaptive organization’ must count as the response in the increasingly connected world in which business will operate in the decades ahead.… [Mukherjee] makes a terrific case of how to achieve the desired response. A great read for the ‘concerned’ before they reach the stage of being ‘tormented.’”
R. Gopalakrishnan
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“Beyond the obvious, this is a great and pragmatic book, demonstrating the incredible power of collaboration in action.”
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“Though many have sought to unlock the secrets of creating learning organizations, few have succeeded. In The Spider’s Strategy, Mukherjee provides the keys to the learning kingdom.… And he shows what it really takes to leverage the power of networks. It is that rare business book that deserves to be read from cover-to-cover.”
Michael Watkins
Author of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
“Mukherjee has written a very thoughtful and thought provoking book.… The adaptive network perspective with its four Design Principles and the accompanying five Capabilities inspired by a Chief Network Officer will be the organizations of the present and future.… The book presents good theory, research grounded in facts, and a clear picture of what is both necessary and possible, going forward.”
Alexander B. Horniman
Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
To thrive in a world where networks of companies increasingly compete with other networks, managers can no longer focus solely on excellence in planning and execution. In The Spider’s Strategy, top business consultant Amit S. Mukherjee provides the tools you need to sense and respond to unexpected events. He shows why and how managers in your company must apply four powerful “Design Principles” today:
- Change everyday work practices by embedding “sense and response” within your normal plan-and-execute processes.
- Promote collaboration across partner companies by establishing practical mechanisms that make “win-win” a basis for action not an empty slogan.
- Ensure that work really teaches by assuring the culture, processes, and organizational structure to improve your company’s ability to learn.
- Implement those key technological capabilities that allow the network to function seamlessly.
The heart of this book includes proven implementation advice based on conversations with successful innovators at HP, Nokia, and beyond. Mukherjee offers new insight into everything from work practices to culture and corporate organization and shows how to overcome even the most stubborn obstacles to effective collaboration amongst partners.
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Author x
Part I: Why Change?
Chapter 1: The Fire That Changed an Industry 3
Chapter 2: Shadows of the Past 17
Chapter 3: Visions from the Present 45
Part II: Design Principles for Adaptive Capabilities
Chapter 4: Transform Everyday Work 69
Chapter 5: Succeed in a Dog-Eat-Dog World 97
Chapter 6: Ensure That Work Teaches 131
Chapter 7: Make Technology Matter 163
Part III: Going Adaptive
Chapter 8: Create the Organization 197
Chapter 9: Introduce Change Holographically 209
Epilogue: Two Views of a Company 225
Index 229
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Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology
June 10, 2010 by AboutNanoWires.com · 5 Comments
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology
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The information revolution has made for a radically more fluid knowledge environment, and the growth of venture capital has created inexorable pressure towards fast commercialisation of existing technologies. Companies that don’t use the technologies they develop are likely to lose them.
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Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want
June 8, 2010 by AboutNanoWires.com · 5 Comments
Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want
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Nothing is more important to business success than innovation . . . And here’s what you can do about it on Monday morning with the definitive how-to book from the world’s leading authority on innovation
When it comes to innovation, Curt Carlson and Bill Wilmot of SRI International know what they are talking about—literally. SRI has pioneered innovations that day in and day out are part of the fabric of your life, such as:
•The computer mouse and the personal computer interface you use at home and work
•The high-definition television in your living room
•The unusual numbers at the bottom of your checks that enable your bank to maintain your account balance correctly
•The speech-recognition system used by your financial services firm when you call for your account balance or to make a transaction.
Each of these innovations—and literally hundreds of others—created new value for customers. And that’s the central message of this book. Innovation is not about inventing clever gadgets or just “creativity.” It is the successful creation and delivery of a new or improved product or service that provides value for your customer and sustained profit for your organization. The first black-and-white television, for example, was just an interesting, cool invention until David Sarnoff created an innovation—a network—that delivered programming to an audience.
The genius of this book is that it provides the “how” of innovation. It makes innovation practical by getting two groups who are often disconnected—the managers who make decisions and the people on the front lines who create the innovations—onto the same page. Instead of smart people grousing about the executive suite not recognizing a good idea if they tripped over it and the folks on the top floor wondering whether the people doing the complaining have an understanding of market realities, Carlson and Wilmot’s five disciplines of innovation focus attention where it should be: on the creation of valuable new products and services that meet customer needs.
Innovation is not just for the “lone genius in the garage” but for you and everyone in your enterprise. Carlson and Wilmot provide a systematic way to make innovation practical, one intimately tied to the way things get done in your business.
Teamwork isn’t enough; Creativity isn’t enough; A new product idea isn’t enough
True innovation is about delivering value to customers. Innovation reveals the value-creating processes used by SRI International, the organization behind the computer mouse, robotic surgery, and the domain names .com, .org, and .gov. Curt Carlson and Bill Wilmot show you how to use these practical, tested processes to create great customer value for your organization.
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Inspired by a cotton candy machine, engineers put a new spin on creating tiny nanofibers
May 30, 2010 by AboutNanoWires.com · Leave a Comment
Inspired by a cotton candy machine, engineers put a new spin on creating tiny nanofibers
Hailed as a “cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine,” bioengineers at Harvard have developed a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers.
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