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Chapters

  • Introduction: Make sense of innovation
  • Challenge 1: Build a shared strategic vision of innovation
    • Why it matters: dynamic innovation management capabilities
    • Innovation as a business: more than creativity
    • Innovation as a process: beyond ideation
    • Innovation typology: beyond new products
    • Innovation strategies: beyond new product development
    • Drivers of innovation strategies: beyond hype
  • Challenge 2: Manage entrepreneurial ecosystems
    • Encourage people to innovate: corporate entrepreneurs
    • Build and lead effective innovation teams: balancing acts
    • Build and manage innovation-ready organizations: how some elephants can dance
    • Develop innovative networks and collaborations: never walk alone
    • Create innovation ecosystems: lands of opportunities
  • Challenge 3: Identify attractive innovation opportunities
    • Identify the sources of innovations: beyond R&D
    • Foster organizational learning: beyond ideation
    • Harvest and protect organizational knowledge assets
    • Integrate external sources of knowledge
  • Challenge 4: Develop a balanced portfolio of business models
    • Business model design: asking the right questions
    • Designing competitive business models: Why and what?
    • Mobilizing the right resources: Who and how much?
    • Valuating innovative business models: quantifying the unquantifiable
    • Building a consistent and balanced innovation portfolio
  • Challenge 5: Nimble execution – fail fast and win big
    • Nimble execution: learn cheaply and adapt quickly
    • Lean development: speed and flexibility
    • Smart money: funding innovation projects
  • Conclusion: More brain, less storming
  • Appendix: Methodology

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Challenge 1: Build a shared strategic vision of innovation

Innovation is today seen by many organizations as a key strategic issue. These organizations, however, often embark on costly …

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The author

Benoit Gailly

Benoît Gailly
Professor and executive advisor in Innovation Management and Strategy Louvain School of Management (UCLouvain)

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The book

Navigating Innovation
Every firm must maintain an entrepreneurial ecosystem and a coherent innovation strategy in order to stay ahead of the competition. For managers this means being able to build a vision of what innovation looks like in the context of their organization, fostering entrepreneurial behaviour, spotting opportunities and making the right decisions. Based on years of practical experience and unique insight, this handy guide identifies fundamental challenges and is rooted in concrete examples.
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