Innovator''s Path - How Individuals, Teams, Organizations Can Make Innovation Business

What do successful business innovators know that many do not? Why does innovative thinking flourish in some environments yet wither away in others? Discover the key disciplines for shifting today's "business-as-usual" thinking and practices onto the terrain of The Innovator's Path. Executive and thought leader Madge Meyer has achieved an extraordinary number of game-changing and award-winning results at several high-performing global corporations. In The Innovator's Path, she shares her distinctive insights, proven practices, and an eight-discipline framework for managing the risks and rewards of change to create business value and attain a competitive advantage. You will learn the principles behind each discipline and how to instill the practices into every level of your organization. There are many exemplary innovation leaders across diverse industries who illustrate her disciplines, contributing their fascinating stories and lessons learned. The eight disciplines of innovation move beyond conventional thinking to establish higher standards for what is meant by:

• Listen-perceiving a hidden wealth of insight and information
• Lead-inspiring others to achieve beyond their expectations
• Position-defining an agile, strategic road map toward the future
• Promote-conveying the value of your innovations and your brand
• Connect-reaching and achieving across and beyond traditional boundaries
• Commit-replacing fear of failure with calculated risk-taking
• Execute-delivering customer-focused business results, quickly and measurably
• Evolve-relentlessly accelerating the pace and challenging complacency

Read The Innovator's Path and discover how your organization can create and sustain a phenomenal journey to the future.

List of contents

Foreword xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Author's Note xxiii
Introduction Innovation and the Eight Disciplines 1
Defining Innovation 2
Making Innovation Business-as-Usual 2
Different Contexts 5
The Eight Disciplines 8
Chapter 1 Listen 13
Patience, Humility, Respect 15
Listen: Levels of Effectiveness 17
Preparing Ourselves to Listen 18
How I Go about Listening 19
"Listening" to the Facts 21
Listening to What is Not Being Said 24
Listen-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 29
Chapter 2 Lead 33
Leadership Essentials 36
Leading with Passion 37
Leading with Vision 38
Respect, Trust, and Integrity 41
The Soft Skills of Leadership 43
Sound Judgment 46
Creating a Culture of Innovation 47
Lead: Levels of Effectiveness 54
Lead-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 55
Chapter 3 Position 57
A Roadmap for Change 57
Positioning Our Sights 60
Developing Our Roadmap 65
Positioning for Change 68
Position: Levels of Effectiveness 70
Personal Positioning 71
Position-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 72
Chapter 4 Promote 75
Branding 77
The Importance of Establishing a Baseline for Innovation 78
Promoting Our Innovation Ideas 79
Opportunities to Promote 88
Promote: Levels of Effectiveness 90
Promoting State Street's Environmental Sustainability and Green Programs 91
Promote-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 94
Chapter 5 Connect 97
Connect: Levels of Effectiveness 107
The Connect Culture 108
Connect and Cooperate 110
Connecting Strategy, Processes, and Systems 112
Ways to Connect 114
Connecting with My Team 115
MIT Collaborative Initiatives and the Albright Challenge 117
Connect-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 120
Chapter 6 Commit 123
Culture and Commitment 124
Innovation Management in the Safety Zone 128
The IBM Way 129
Funding as Commitment 130
Personal and Team Commitment 135
Timing and Commitment 139
Commit: Levels of Effectiveness 140
Commit-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 141
Chapter 7 Execute 143
Meeting the Highest Standard for Our Astronauts 144
Flawless Execution 145
Rapid Value Delivery 148
Putting the Pieces Together 153
Execute: Levels of Effectiveness 154
Server Certification Process 155
Execute-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 157
Chapter 8 Evolve 159
Overcoming Success 160
Going Further Beyond 164
Continual Innovation, Not Constant Change 166
Clearing the Path 169
Adversity and Change 172
Evolve: Levels of Effectiveness 176
Evolving from Certification to Cloud 177
Evolve-Concrete Steps for Putting This Discipline into Action 178
Afterword 181
Appendix I The Eight Disciplines-Summaries and Action Plans 183
Listen 183
Lead 186
Position 189
Promote 192
Connect 195
Commit 198
Execute 200
Evolve 203
Appendix II Biographies of Individuals Interviewed for This Book 207
Tenley E. Albright, MD 207
Deborah Ancona 208
Eugene Y. Chan, MD 209
Gerald Chertavian 210
Dean Kamen 210
Tarkan Maner 211
Tom Mendoza 212
Admiral Michael Mullen 212
Nathan Myhrvold 213
Samuel J. Palmisano 214
James S. Phalen 215
Linda S. Sanford 216
John Swainson 216
John Thompson 217
Ming Tsai 218
About the Author 221
Index 223

About the author

MADGE M. MEYER is a public speaker, author, and founder of Madge Meyer Consulting, LLC. She has received twelve personal awards for her industry and community achievements. Formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer & Technology Fellow at State Street Corporation, she oversaw the company's global Information Technology infrastructure teams, which earned thirty-two innovation and excellence awards under her leadership. Meyer also held executive positions at Merrill Lynch and IBM and serves on several boards in industry, academia, and nonprofit institutions.

Summary

A guide to creating and sustaining a culture of innovation focused on business value The Innovator s Path introduces business readers to thought leader Madge M. Meyer s unique, cross-cultural perspective on corporate innovation.

Product details

• Authors: M. M. Meyer, Madge M Meyer, Madge M. Meyer, MM Meyer, Meyer Madge M.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9781118537329
• ISBN: 978-1-118-53732-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Unternehmenstechnologie, Business Technology