INNOVATION

Diffusing your innovation 49

Getting people involved TIP

“Test marketing” of a new product or service helps MAKE USE OF
explore customer preferences that provide information TESTERS
about things like pricing policy or advertising, and
checks if people really want the new offering. Such When implementing
testing also offers the chance to test different launch a new procedure,
strategies—for example, two different regions could invite those involved
be used, each employing a different launch strategy. in the testing to
help train and
The same principle holds for process innovations support new users.
inside the organization—changes in “the way we do
things around here.” Getting the ideas and insights
of people who will be using the new process is
an ideal way of improving the final design of the
process as well as smoothing the route to change.

Maximizing your chances

Three factors determine the speed at which an
innovation diffuses: the nature of the innovation (radical
innovations are adopted more slowly than small ones),
the characteristics of the adopter (some communities
are more receptive to change), and the personality of
the innovator. It makes sense to allow more time and
resources to promote a radical change in a conservative
community than a small change in a flexible workforce.

preferences try

share adopt

potential test

product

50 Making innovation happen

HOW TO... Listing characteristics
MAKE A
NEW IDEA Certain key characteristics greatly affect how easily
POPULAR an innovation can be diffused. The first is relative
advantage: how much better the new innovation
Widely publicize is perceived to be. People will be more eager to
the benefits adopt an idea if its benefits are obvious. Balanced
against this is complexity: the more difficult people
before launch. perceive the innovation to be (the more complex the
procedure, the more technical the product) the less
Offer sneak likely they will be to adopt it. Other important factors
previews, trials, or are visibility—it can be useful to offer demonstrations
training sessions. of the benefits of your new idea—and whether it
can be trialed—training and trial runs are important
Get early users to help users come to terms with new products and
to persuade procedures. Finally, the product must be compatible
other people. with the market—it must fit the people who you
want to adopt it. Try to minimize any mismatch by
Use your user developing variants for different groups of user.
feedback to
adapt innovation. Understanding early adopters

Innovation adoption is a complex negotiation
between proponents of an innovation and the people
they want to use it. Some people can be relied upon
to be enthusiastic and try out new products, while
others will resist changes to their settled preferences.
To accelerate diffusion of your innovation you need to
know the types of adopter and what motivates them.
Your best friends will be innovators—cutting-edge
users who are always willing to try new products and
processes. They can be recruited during testing stages,
working with prototypes and beta versions, and may
also come up with ideas for improvement. The next
are early adopters—trendsetters in a community whom
others imitate. They are often open to good new ideas,
and should be targeted because if you can appeal to
them and meet their needs, others are likely to follow.

Diffusing your innovation 51

Understanding slower adopters

The early majority is the large group of people ready
to adopt an innovation when it appears to be taking
off, and when they witness the advantages enjoyed by
early adopters. Positive experiences by early adopters
can encourage the early majority to come on board.
The late majority consists of the more conservative
members of the group who are only prepared to
change when they can see a large population already
successfully using the innovation. You can best reach
them by promoting positive experiences reported by
earlier adopters. Finally, any community will include
laggards—a few people extremely resistant to change.
A lot of effort will be required to convince these
people, and you may decide to leave them be if 100
percent adoption is not essential to your innovation.

SELLING YOUR IDEA

FAST TRACK OFF TRACK

Communicating in terms that Use jargon and specialized
your prospective users recognize language

Understanding their world— Making assumptions that they can
seeing the innovation through see the benefits the way you do
their eyes
Presenting them with a “take it
Listening to their concerns—and or leave it” solution and ignoring
if possible build their ideas, wishes, their feedback
and needs into the final version
Treating them as passive end-users
Developing a relationship with and expecting them simply to do
them: engage them as partners in as they are told
the development of the innovation

Chapter 4

Building the innovative
organization

Innovation is about human creativity and ingenuity—piecing
together a puzzle, solving problems, and creating solutions.
Developing and implementing new ideas can work only when
backed by an innovative organization—one geared to change.

Laying the foundations

The innovation system provides the structure for an idea, and strategy
directs it, but it is people who actually make it progress. However, just
throwing people at the innovation challenge is not enough: you need to
provide a context in which they use their creativity and share their ideas.

**Skunk works— Avoiding chaos
a group within an
organization whose Blueprints for an innovative organization will highlight
role is to work on the need to eliminate stifling bureaucracy, unhelpful
advanced projects structures, communication barriers, and other factors
and develop that stop ideas from getting through. But you must be
prototypes with careful not to fall into the chaos trap—not all innovation
minimal restrictions. works in loose, informal, and organic environments, or
“skunk works”*, and these types of organizations can
often end up obstructing successful innovation.
Successful entrepreneurs and innovative organizations
know this, and use a range of structures, tools, and
techniques to balance formal and organic structures.

Laying the foundations 53

Balancing the structure TIP

There are a number of considerations that can help TRAIN YOUR
you to strike this balance. First, while an appropriate EMPLOYEES
structure is essential for an innovation idea to progress,
rigid hierarchies can stifle new ideas, as employees Make sure your
at lower levels find themselves unable to pass their staff receives
suggestions on to management. Cooperation across necessary training
team boundaries is essential, since input from many to understand the
different skill sets will be needed to implement a new innovation processes
idea—this cannot be achieved if each department in which they are
operates on its own. Good communication across involved, since this
the organization is equally important, as well as will help them
communication up and down the hierarchy, so that generate ideas
ideas can be shared, and no one feels left out as an and take on new
innovation moves forward. The structure of individual processes easily.
teams is also important. Effective team-working means
that ideas are discussed and developed within a team,
and all team members are encouraged to contribute.
Ensure that all teams are aware their input is welcome,
rather than treating innovation as a job for the experts.

ASK YOURSELF... DOES YOUR
ORGANIZATION PROMOTE INNOVATION?

t Does the organizational structure facilitate innovation rather than stifling it?
t Do people work well together across departmental boundaries?
t I s there a strong commitment to training and development of people?
t Are our people involved in suggesting ideas for improvements to

products or processes?
t D oes our structure help us to make decisions rapidly?
t Is communication effective, and does it work top-down, bottom-up, and

across the organization?
t Does our reward and recognition system support innovation?
t Do we have a supportive climate for new ideas, so that people do not

have to leave the organization to make them happen?
t Do we work well in teams?

54 Building the innovative organization

Setting an innovation culture

Any organization has its own particular patterns of behavior that
are underpinned by values and beliefs—its organizational culture.
If you want to develop an innovative organization, creating the right
culture is the biggest challenge.

TIP Encouraging employees

REWARD Your employees must have the right attitude
INNOVATIVE in order to come up with and develop innovations.
THINKING An organization that operates a blame culture—in
which mistakes are punished and instigators of new
Develop a projects are made scapegoats when they fail—
recognition-and- will discourage innovative thinking. On the other
reward program hand, a more open culture in which mistakes are
for those who treated as opportunities to learn and develop
contribute to new strategies, will be more likely to encourage
a successful innovation. Discourage the attitude that current
innovation, to systems are perfectly fine, or “if it ain’t broke, don’t
encourage all fix it,” so that employees are constantly thinking
employees to of how their processes could be improved.
participate in
the process.

CASE STUDY only one element of a complex culture.
It also allows people to progress their
A culture of innovation ideas through stages of funding options,
3M is often cited as an example from seed money to greater resources, if
of a consistently successful innovator the Board is convinced by the proposal.
that draws on what is clearly a highly There is a deliberate attempt to create
innovative culture. 3M has around a sense of company history based on
50,000 products and yet is so confident valuing those people who challenge the
in its ability to innovate that it sets system, and a policy of encouraging
the goal of deriving a third of its sales “bootlegging” behavior—progressing
from products introduced in the past innovation projects that might not have
three years. Although it is famous for received official sanction.
encouraging people to explore ideas
not relevant to their main jobs, this is

Setting an innovation culture 55

Leading the way

Managers should also take a positive approach to
creative ideas rather than expecting employees
to just do as they are told. Sharing your vision of the
company’s future, and how innovation contributes
to that vision, will encourage employee participation.
Managers should support and communicate with
workers throughout the company rather than remaining
distant, so that new ideas can originate at any level.

CREATING AN INNOVATIVE CLIMATE

FACTORS HOW IT INFLUENCES INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR
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56 Building the innovative organization

Fostering creativity

Creativity not only generates the ideas that start an innovation, but also the
means of fixing problems along the way. Scaling up, getting the bugs out of
the system, and revising prototypes all require creative input. Understanding
the creative process helps you to develop it in your organization.

TIP Thinking creatively

IMPARTING Creative problem-solving is a process psychologists
THE SKILLS have studied for years. There are four stages:
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employees, and comes to you that you feel will resolve the problem.
make sure they t 7BMJEBUJPO further examination of the idea as it is
obtain experience implemented to make sure it really is the solution.
in finding and
solving problems. In a business context, review and analysis should
follow validation, to ensure the problem is solved.
If not, the cycle repeats until an answer emerges.

Enhancing creativity

There are a number of proven strategies to enhance
creativity in your organization. Building diversity will
ensure that you have several perspectives available
on a problem. Allow creative thinkers time and space
to consider problems at length. Provide spaces for
employees to develop their ideas—quiet rooms
where individuals can concentrate, and group
discussion areas where staff can gather to explore
problems. And make sure that you give your staff
a sense of freedom to try out different ideas,
even if they don’t always succeed.

Fostering creativity 57

Using creative tools

The good news is that there are many tools available to
help you tackle the stages of the problem-solving cycle.
These can be used by individuals, but most are more
useful as part of a general meeting to enourage ideas.

IDENTIFICATION
Fishbone (or “cause and effect”) diagram—

exploring the root causes of a problem
and its contributing factors

REDEFINITION
Goal orientation—restating the problem to
focus on what you are really trying to solve
Perspective—looking at the problem differently

EXPLORATION
Brainstorming—pooling ideas from a team
Radical ideas—encouraging wild thinking
Random link—forcing a random connection

SELECTION
Voting—a simple vote to choose the idea
Implement-ability matrix—plotting your ideas
on a chart to compare the payoffs they offer

IMPLEMENTATION AND REVIEW
Measure and compare—reviewing an
innovation project once it has been
implemented to measure its success

58 Building the innovative organization

Managing change

Implementing innovation means changing things, and many
people are resistant to change, especially in their working
conditions. It is important to understand the reasons for this
resistance, and manage changes to minimize user uncertainty.

Understanding resistance

Not everyone is against change—some view COMMUNICATE
it positively, while others resist any change ACTIVELY
at all. This could be due to several factors:
they do not see the need for change, Communication should
they are scared it will require them be active, open, and
to do things of which they do not feel timely (before the
capable, they are worried about losing change occurs), and
their jobs, they fear they will lose control above all, two-way
over their work, they do not see what is in practice.
in it for them, or they feel overloaded
with what they already have to do.

Getting people on board

Change management is about understanding BE
that uncertainty about change is natural, and SUPPORTIVE
dealing with the sources of that uncertainty. Create an atmosphere
There are two types of resistance to change: in which individual
the type you can tackle directly (by training concerns can be aired,
people in new skills, for example), and the and ideas within
type that is emotional and maybe irrational. the organization
If someone feels their job is changing used positively.
for the worse, that will shape the way they
see the change, whether they are correct or
not. You can address this only by creating a
supportive climate where your employees can
discuss and come to terms with their concerns.

HAVE A SET CLEAR
CLEAR STRATEGY TARGETS
Develop a vision and
share it with the rest Giving people
of the organization, clear goals and
to help employees milestones will help
them feel more
feel ownership confident about
of it.
changes.

Changing ENCOURAGE
tracks INVOLVEMENT

effectively By allowing
participation early in
the change process,
you ensure commitment
to it and improvement

in design.

INVEST IN
TRAINING
Training is important
for developing skills,
continued improvement,
and in creating a
change-oriented
organization.

60 Building the innovative organization

Involving employees

Creativity comes as standard equipment with everyone who works in
your organization. To paraphrase one manager, with every pair of hands
there comes a free brain. The challenge lies in engaging this creativity—
or how to tap into this resource to keep making innovation happen.

**CI—continuous Involving over the long term
improvement: a
steady stream An organization can choose to involve all employees
of incremental in innovation (high involvement) or only a few (low
innovation. One involvement). The extent of involvement depends in
of the most powerful part on whether the planned innovations are radical
engines for change (high impact) or incremental (low impact). Either way,
in organizations is employees must feel motivated, empowered, and
mobilizing the efforts enabled to contribute if they are to help in innovation.
of employees to
deliver this. Once you have started the innovation process, the
difficulty lies in keeping it going long enough to make
a real difference. Many organizations start the process,
have an initial surge of ideas and enthusiasm, and
then see it gradually ebb away until there is little or
no CI* activity. This isn’t surprising—to change the
way people think and behave on a long-term basis
requires a strategic development program.

IN FOCUS... HIGH-INVOLVEMENT
INNOVATION

High-involvement innovation has been firms like Toyota that do this on a
around for a while. Denny’s Shipyard systematic basis—it receives around
in Dumbarton, Scotland, back in 1871 two million suggestions a year from
asked—and rewarded—workers for its workforce (Kawasaki Engineering,
“any change by which work is rendered another high-involvement player, has
superior in quality or more economical a staggering seven million)—and it
in cost.” It makes a big difference to implements the majority of these.

Progressing in stages

Involvement in workplace innovation develops in five
stages. You can use this model to identify the stage
your organization has reached, and what needs to
be done to progress toward higher involvement.

1  At level one innovation is random and occasional.
People do help to solve problems, but there is no
attempt to build on this, and organizations may actively
restrict the opportunities for innovation to take place.

2  At level two an organization attempts to mobilize
involvement. This needs a formal process for
finding and solving problems in a structured and
systematic way, and training employees to use it.

3  At level three high-involvement capability
is coupled with the strategic goals of the
organization, so that improvement activities
of teams and individuals can be aligned.
Strategy deployment, and monitoring
and measuring are required for this.

4  At level four high involvement
produces profit. Individuals and
groups need to be empowered to
innovate on their own initiative.
This requires an understanding
of, and commitment to,
overall strategic objectives.

5  At level five the whole
company is involved in
experimenting with new ideas
and improving processes,
in sharing knowledge and
creating the complete
learning organization.

62 Building the innovative organization

Involving customers

Everyone is creative—and that includes the end users of your
innovation. Users are not simply passive consumers of new products
or services; they will have plenty of ideas about how they would
like to improve or change what they are using.

TIP Appreciating user involvement

LISTEN TO An important theme in managing innovation is learning
COMPLAINTS to work with users as co-creators of innovation ideas,
Pay attention to for two good reasons. First, their ideas can help make
negative reactions a better innovation, and second, if you involve them
from test users. they will buy into the idea. These users do not have
If they reject your to be limited to customers—the same applies to
idea, it may not process innovation. Changes to the way people
be worth pursuing. work can tap into their ideas about how the process
should improve. Otherwise, they may find ways to
resist the change. There are two ways of encouraging
these ideas—appealing to specific users who are
likely to contribute, and encouraging contributions
from the entire user base.

Asking the best users

Focus groups identify users and their interests as an
input to innovation design, and, later, as a sounding
board. Prototyping and test marketing let you observe
users’ reactions to new ideas, and allow them to add
their own. Lead-user methods help you identify early
adopters among your user base, to help shape your
idea while you develop it. Finally, communities of
practice are small, often volunteer, groups of users
that use innovative solutions on a continuing basis, such
as the Linux community, music software groups like
Propellerhead, and Apple’s i-platform devices group.

Involving customers 63

Inviting ideas online

The Internet has made it possible for vast numbers
of users to be contacted effortlessly, and for them to
contribute ideas easily, widening your potential pool
of ideas. Crowd-sourcing uses Web 2.0—the interactive,
user-driven components of the Internet—to allow
users to interact and provide their ideas to design
and co-create products and services. Examples include
Adidas, whose mi-Adidas platform lets you design your
own shoes, and the Lego Factory website, where users
can design their own Lego toys. Increasingly, companies
like BMW, Kellogg, and Unilever are creating virtual
innovation agencies, opening their doors to ideas from
users by using the Internet to capture and review these
ideas. Even simple arrangements like competitions and
challenges can be a useful way of capturing user ideas
focused on a particular challenge or target, especially
if they are distributed over the Internet to encourage
a large number of participants.

64 Building the innovative organization

Networking for innovation

No person exists on their own, and no organization operates in isolation.
Innovation has always been a multiplayer game, and in a world of “open
innovation,” where not all the smart people work for you, organizations
are increasingly turning to networks to help them manage innovation.

TIP Maximizing resources

COMBINE IDEAS The benefits of innovation networks can be substantial.
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Networking for innovation 65

UNDESTANDING TYPES OF INNOVATION NETWORK

NETWORK TYPE EXAMPLES
Entrepreneur-based
Bringing different complementary resources together
Communities of practice to help take an opportunity forward. This strategy is
largely dependent on the entrepreneur’s energy and
Spatial cluster enthusiasm in getting people interested in joining—and
staying in—the network.
Sectoral network
Networks that involve players inside and across
New product or process different organizations. They are bound together
development network by a shared concern with a particular aspect or area
Learning network of knowledge.
New technology
development network These form where key players in a given industry
are situated in the same geographical area—Silicon Valley
Emerging standards is a good example. Knowledge flow among and across
the members of the network is helped by the geographical
Supply chain learning closeness and the ability of key players to meet
and talk.

These bring different players together because they
share a common market sector or business model, and
often have the purpose of shared innovation to
preserve competitiveness.

Networks that share knowledge and perspectives to create
and market a new product or process concept across more
than one organization.

Working together across a sector or region to improve
competitiveness through product, process, and
service innovation.

Sharing and learning around newly emerging technologies
to fully explore their potential—for example, the pioneering
semiconductor research programs in the US and Japan
that join resources and information from universities
across the globe.

Exploring and establishing standards around innovative
technologies—for example, the Motion Picture Experts
Group (MPEG) that works on audio and video compression
standards for digital sound and video.

Developing and sharing innovative good practice and
possibly shared product development across a value chain,
such as between manufacture and distribution.

66 Building the innovative organization

**Shared learning— Networking and shared learning
a process
of combining The benefits of innovation networks don’t happen by
knowledge accident. Challenges to networking include: how to
and experience manage something you do not control; how to see
across teams or system level effects and not self-interest; how to build
organizations. shared risk-taking and avoid red tape; and how to
avoid free riders who get benefits without contributing.
The key issues in setting up a network are providing
momentum for bringing the network together and
clearly defining its purpose. The need for a network
may be crisis-triggered or driven by a perception of
opportunity. Third parties play key roles here: network
brokers, gatekeepers, policy agents, and facilitators.

Networking also helps innovation by providing
support for shared learning*, which alllows for the
status quo to be challenged, and for assumptions to
undergo critical reflection from different perspectives.
Shared learning provides a wider perspective, prevents
insular ideas, and brings in new concepts. Shared
experimentation reduces the perceived and actual cost
and risk of trying new things, and shared experiences
can provide support and open new lines of exploration.

Networking for innovation 67

Managing the network TIP

When the network is operational, you need some core AGREE ON
operating processes on which all parties agree, such as: THE TERMS
t Network boundary management: how the
membership of the network is defined and maintained. When setting up an
t Decision-making: how (where, when, who) decisions innovation network,
get made at the network level. agree beforehand
t Conflict resolution: how conflicts are resolved. on how you plan
t Information processing: how information flows to share potential
among members and is managed. profits, and losses,
t Knowledge management: how knowledge is as well as how you
created, shared, and used across the network. will resolve conflicts.
t Motivation: how members are motivated to join
and remain within the network.
t Risk and benefit sharing: how the risks and reward
are allocated across members of the network.
t Coordination: how the operations of the network
are integrated and coordinated.

Networks can be short-term and for a specific
purpose, or they can continue for as long as members
see it worthwhile—this may require periodic review
and “retargeting” to keep motivation high.

68 Building the innovative organization

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Sharpening your skills 69

ASK YOURSELF... HOW GOOD
ARE WE AT INNOVATION?

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Measuring your
own performance

In addition to organizational targets, it can be useful
to monitor your own performance as a manager over
the course of an innovation project. Make sure that
you take time to review your projects so that you can
improve your performance the next time. Learn from
your mistakes, and capture what you have learned in a
briefing document so that others in your organization
can make use of it. Systematically compare your
products and processes with those of other firms,
and meet and share experiences with people in
similar roles to yours. Look beyond your immediate
organizational and geographical environment to
ensure that you have the widest possible basis for
new ideas, and encourage experimentation among
your staff. Establish sets of measurable criteria
for success to identify how and where you can
improve your innovation management.

70 Index

Index creativity 6, 15–7, 23, 52, I
55–7, 60
AB ideas 7, 14, 16–9, 32–41, 43–9,
cross-functional involvement 47 52–3, 56–7, 64–5
Adidas 63 crowd sourcing 39, 63
adopting new ideas 36–7, 48–9 customers 19, 62, 68 implementing ideas 37
advertising 49 improving skills 68–9
Apple 25, 62 DE incremental innovation 10–12,
Aravind Eye Clinics 23
balancing your portfolio 30 decision-making 21, 67 16, 24–5, 45, 60
benchmarking 41 decision matrix 28–9, 30 information processing 67
beta version 50 “Delphi panels” 40 innovation
Bic 10 Detroit 39
blame culture 54 developing ideas 44–7 and invention 16–7
BMW 63 digital commerce 20 basics of 6–7
brainstorming 57 early adopters 48, 50–51 categorizing 10–11
bubble chart 31 early involvement 59 culture 54–5
budgets 17, 44 economic planning 40 dealing with challenges 20–21
bureaucracy 52 edible ink 39 definition of 6–7
business case 32–3 emerging markets 20 diffusing 48, 50–51
business model innovation 12–3 employees, encouraging 54 directions for 12–3, 24–5, 55
business strategy 29, 42 employees, involving 60–61 from frustration 39
employee suggestions 16 ground rules for 42
C employee training 53 implementing 43, 46–7, 58–9
end users 51, 62 in organizations 52–3
change management 43, 58–9 entrepreneurs 15, 32, 52, 65 in practice 16–7
chaos trap 52 making it successful 14–5, 18–9
climate change 20 F managing 7, 17, 21, 36–7, 41,
collaboration 41
communication 53, 58 fast-track projects 44, 46 44–5, 55, 60–61, 62, 64, 69
communication barriers 52 feedback 48, 50–51 measuring 68–9
communities 49, 50–51, file sharing 21 networking capacity 64
financial crisis 20 options 28–9
62–3, 65 focus groups 62 plotting a profile 27
comparing projects 30 Ford Edsel 45 portfolio 11
competence base 29 forecasting tools 40–41 process 7, 18
competing on price 13 full-scale production 35 profiling 26
complexity 50 funneling innovation 18 reviewing 45, 57, 69
computer-aided design 47 rewards 31–3, 42, 54
concepts 19 GH risk 14, 30–33, 42, 44, 64, 66
conflict resolution 67 stages in workplace 61
consumerism 20 goal orientation 57 stages of development 18–9
continuous improvement 47, 60 hedging your bets 30 strategy 22–3
cost-benefit analysis 28 Henry Chesbrough 13 threats to 21
creative problem-solving 56 Henry Ford 21, 24 types 11, 25
high-involvement innovation innovation compass 24–25
innovation journey 36, 48
60–61 innovators 49–50

Index 71

intellectual property 9 opportunity costs 28 selecting ideas 36–7
Internet 11, 21, 38–9, 63 organizational culture 54 self-service shopping 11
iPod and iTunes 25 organizational targets 69 selling your ideas 32–3
service innovation 11, 19, 24–5
KL P shared learning 66
Silicon Valley 65
Kawasaki Engineering 60 performance review 12 simultaneous engineering 47
Kellogg 63 pickup truck 39 “skunk works” 45, 52
knowledge brokers 38 planning 14–5, 24 slow adopters 51
launching 19, 34–5, 49 portfolio management 30–32 sourcing ideas 39
leadership 15, 55 Post-it notes 14, 37 specialized knowledge 11, 41
lead users 39, 41 practical innovation 38–9 stage-gate model 34–5
learning 15, 55 problem-solving cycle 57 strategic analysis 26–7, 42
learning networks 65 process innovation 8, 10, 12, 14, strategic implementation 43
LEDs 11, 25 strategic selection 42–3
Lego 63 19, 23–4, 39, 49, 62 strategy 59
Linux 39, 62 Procter and Gamble (P&G) 39 stretch goals 21
low-cost airlines 25 product development 65 sustainable energy 20
low-involvement innovation 60 product innovation 9, 10, 12, 14,
T
M 19, 24–5
project management 37, 43–4, 47 target market 19
managing implementation 46–7 Propellerhead 62 teams 15, 45–7, 53
managing risk 43 prospective users 51 technology 17, 28, 34, 37–9,
market analysis 33 prototypes 19, 32, 35, 37, 47,
marketing 16, 46 44, 64–5
market innovation 11–3, 24–5 50, 52, 56, 62 telecommunications 20
market position 13, 23 public services 23 testing 19
market potential 38 test marketing 49, 62
McDonald’s 24 R 3M 14, 37, 54
mistakes, learning from 37 Toyota 60
motivation 55 radical changes 20, 49 training 58–9
MP3 12 radical innovation 11–2, 16, trend extrapolation 40
MPEG 65 trials 48, 50
Murphy’s Law 44 24–5, 45, 49, 60
music industry 21 real-time decisions 34–5 UVW
relative advantage 50
NO research 14, 16–7, 38–9 uncertainty 28, 47, 58
resistance to change 58–9 Unilever 63
networking, challenges to 66 risky innovation 30 user ideas 63
networks, managing 67 Robert Cooper 34 user needs 38
networks 41, 64–7 Rolls Royce 13, 25 Viagra 37
NHS Direct 25 waste disposal 20
Nintendo 24 S Web 2.0 63
online banking 25 web communities 39
open innovation 13, 64, 69 safe innovation 30 Wii 24
scaling up 56
scenarios 21
Scotch tape 14
sectoral network 65

72 Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Publisher’s acknowledgments All other images © Dorling Kindersley
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