Revolutionizing Innovation - Users, Communities, and Open Innovation(Pevná vazba)

Revolutionizing Innovation - Users, Communities, and Open Innovation(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the emerging paradigm of user and open innovation, offering both theoretical and empirical perspectives.The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users

Mobile Service Innovation and Business Models (Bouwman Harry)(Pevná vazba)

Modern economies depend on innovation in services for their future growth. Service innovation is directly related to business models that support these services, i.e. The STOF model provides a 'holistic' view on business models with four interrelated perspectives, i.e., Service, Technology,

Mergers and Acquisitions, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Weber Yaakov)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy is devoted to research aimed at understanding success and failure factors of mergers and acquisitions in entrepreneurial firms. Research topics offer insights into the relationships of performance factors in all stage

Innovation for Engineers: Developing Creative and Entrepreneurial Success (Mehregany Mehran)(Pevná vazba)

Teaches concepts and practices for driving creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship Discusses personal considerations for success and happiness over one's course of careerDescribes the power of observation and imagination--the OR Mindset--for in driving innovationPresents a

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms (Furman Jeffrey)(Pevná vazba)

Despite recent advances in our understanding of how innovation and entrepreneurship impact the creation and appropriation of value, numerous questions remain unanswered. This volume draws together scholars working at the forefront of entrepreneurship-, strategy-, and innovation-related domains to

Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance (Sparrow Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance investigates the relationship between HRM, innovation and performance. Taking a multi-level perspective the book reflects critically on contentious themes such as high performance work systems, organizational design options, cross-boundary

Braun: Fifty Years of Design and Innovation (Polster Bernd)(Pevná vazba)

Workplace Innovation: Theory, Research and Practice (Oeij Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Provides a multi-level perspective on workplace innovation from well-known specialists in this field Integrates theory, research and practical perspectives on workplace innovation Provides clear practical guidelines for work place researchers, policy makers and

Engineering and Technology for Healthcare (Imran Muhammad Ali)(Pevná vazba)

Innovation in healthcare is currently a 'hot' topic. Innovation allows us to think differently, to take risks and to develop ideas that are far better than existing solutions. Currently, there is no single book that covers all topics related to microelectronics, sensors, data, system integration

India as a Pioneer of Innovation (Singh Harbir)(Pevná vazba)

What does innovation mean to and in India? What are the predominant sites of activity where Indians innovate, and under what situations do they work or fail? This book addresses these all-important questions arising within diverse Indian contexts: informal economy, low-cost settings, large business

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Bessant John R.)(Paperback)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3rd Edition is an accessible text on innovation and entrepreneurship aimed specifically at undergraduate students studying business and management studies, but also those on engineering and science degrees with management courses. The text applies key theories and

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice (Christensen Clayton M.)(Pevná vazba)

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know how to

Navigating Innovation: How to Identify, Prioritize and Capture Opportunities for Strategic Success (Gailly Benoit)(Pevná vazba)

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

Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World (Breznitz Dan)(Pevná vazba)

A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since the early years of the information

Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation Into Your Company's DNA (Weber Karl)(Pevná vazba)

Drive and leverage continuous innovation to meet the challenges of digital disruption, changing markets, evolving customer needs, and increasingly fierce competition A major question on the mind of every business leader today is: What can I do to create extra value for my company and the customers

Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits: Military Procurement as Innovation Policy (Eliasson Gunnar)(Pevná vazba)

Examines the role of public procurement of military products on innovation policyQuantifies civilian spillovers from regional military product development projects from around the world Provides a comparative analysis of cost benefit calculation

The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation (Govindarajan Vijay)(Pevná vazba)

How to Innovate and Execute Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different

Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design (Dorst Kees)(Pevná vazba)

How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the

Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth (Radjou Navi)(Pevná vazba)

'Jugaad Innovation is the most comprehensive book yet to appear on the subject [of frugal innovation].' --The Economist A frugal and flexible approach to innovation for the 21st century Innovation is a key directive at companies worldwide. But in these tough times, we can't rely on the old formula

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean (Verganti Roberto)(Pevná vazba)

Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical

Opposites attract (B Lyng Hilda)(Pevná vazba)

Cross-industry innovation introduces a dilemma for the innovation process. On one hand, there is a broad consensus in research that diversity in knowledge leads to increased levels of novelty in innovation. On the other hand, the crossing of industries boundaries is known to cause knowledge

The Conflicted Superpower: America's Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation (Kennedy Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in

The New Geography of Innovation: Clusters, Competitiveness and Theory (Tinguely Xavier)(Pevná vazba)

Innovation is the main engine of competitiveness. However, in a world in which everything goes faster, the inherent nature of the innovation process has changed. This book assesses both the theoretically and empirically intertwined relationship between innovation, clusters and multinational

Public Relations and the Power of Creativity: Strategic Opportunities, Innovation and Critical Challenges (Bowman Sarah)(Pevná vazba)