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This first edition of Strategic Innovation Management is an exciting new addition to the established bestselling texts Managing Innovation and Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Joe Tidd and John Bessant.
List of contents
About the Authors xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
How to Use This Book xvii
Part I Foundations of Managing Innovation 1
Chapter 1 What Is Innovation - And Why Does It Matter? 3
What Is Innovation? 3
Why Does Innovation Matter? 9
To Whom? 10
Innovation Isn't Easy! 10
Can We Manage Innovation? 12
The Case for Strategic Innovation Management 13
Summary 16
Further Resources 16
References 17
Chapter 2 Innovation Strategy 21
Why Strategy? 21
What's in an Innovation Strategy? 22
Strategy at Different Levels 33
Dynamic Capability 35
Summary 37
Further Resources 37
References 38
Chapter 3 Identifying Strategic Capabilities 41
The Resource-Based View 41
Distinguishing Capabilities from Resources 42
Assessing Capabilities 46
Creating and Capturing Value 53
Beware of Core Rigidities 55
Summary 57
Further Resources 57
References 57
Chapter 4 Leadership and Organization of Innovation 61
The Innovative Organization 61
Innovation Leadership 62
Collective and Social 65
Context and Climate 72
Summary 76
Further Resources 76
References 77
Chapter 5 Innovation as a Process 81
Beyond Spengler 81
A Map of the Process 82
Managing the Process 86
Learning to Manage Innovation 90
The Problem of Partial Models 91
Summary 94
Further Resources 94
References 96
Chapter 6 Sources of Innovation 97
Where Do Innovations Come From? 97
Knowledge Push 98
Need Pull. . . 99
Making Processes Better 101
Whose Needs? Working at the Edge 103
Crisis Driven Innovation 105
Towards Mass Customization 107
Users as Innovators 107
Watching Others - and Learning from Them 110
Recombinant Innovation 111
Regulation 111
Futures and Forecasting 112
Design-driven Innovation 113
Accidents 114
Summary 116
Further Resources 116
References 117
Chapter 7 Search Strategies for Innovation 119
Making Sense of the Sources 119
The Innovation Treasure Hunt 122
Innovation Search Strategies 127
Strategies for Searching 131
Innovation Networks 133
Knowledge Management 134
Learning to Search 135
Summary 137
Further Resources 137
References 138
Chapter 8 Forecasting Emerging Opportunities for Innovation 141
Forecasting 141
Customer or Market Surveys 143
Internal: Brainstorming 144
External: Benchmarking 145
Scenario Development 149
Summary 156
Further Resources 156
References 157
Chapter 9 Selecting Innovation Projects 159
Why is Selection a Challenge? 159
Choosing between Projects 162
Summary 178
Further Resources 178
References 179
Chapter 10 Developing New Products and Services 181
The New Product/Service Development Process 181
Success Factors 186
Service Development 188
Tools to Support New Product Development 193
Summary 199
Further Resources 199
References 200
Chapter 11 Developing Business and Tale
About the author
Joe Tidd is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, UK and visiting Professor at University College London.
John Bessant holds the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University where he is also Research Director.
Summary
This first edition of Strategic Innovation Management is an exciting new addition to the established bestselling texts Managing Innovation and Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Joe Tidd and John Bessant.
