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1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Exercises -- Worksheets -- Preface -- Introduction: what is innovation? -- The structure of this book -- Workshop activities -- The practice of innovation -- The innovative personality and skill sets -- The culture of innovation -- The innovative process -- Posters and quotes -- Innovation cases -- References -- About the author -- Index |
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List of worksheets -- Preface -- Introduction: What is innovation? -- Structure of this book -- Workshop activities: -- Part 1: Practice Of Innovation: -- Forget, unlearn, dismantle -- What if? -- Innovative connections -- Levels of innovation -- Alternative uses -- Jobs that need to be done -- New TV program -- Storytelling -- Love of failure -- Visioning -- Green innovation -- Practical individual creative skills -- Part 2: Innovative Personality And Skill Sets: -- Inquisitiveness -- Building networks -- Rebel -- Personality Trait: Next Box #1 -- Personality Trait: Next Box #2 -- Personality Trait: Next Box #3 -- Design an experiment -- Building innovation DNA into your life -- Creative problem solving -- Brainwriting -- Problem-solving games -- Analytical thinking test -- Test of creativity -- Leadership and teambuilding -- Building a winning team -- Teams and traditional work units: some differences -- Part 3: Culture Of Innovation: -- Determine your current culture -- Open source innovation -- Killing the naysayer -- Where do babies (innovative ideas) come from? -- Failure notebook -- Faces of innovation -- Event/pattern/structure -- Trend spotting -- Creative collaboration -- Building an Innovative Culture I -- Building an Innovative Culture II -- Scaffolding: toward a culture of innovation -- Part 4: Innovative Process: -- Open source innovation -- Deep inquiry -- Creative collage making -- Disassembling -- Question circle -- Deep empathy -- Photo wall -- Can you hear me now? -- Redesign rooms -- Two circle critique -- Force field analysis -- Litmus test -- Attribute listing -- Blue ocean technique -- Club med exercise -- Designing an innovation room -- SCAMPER -- Posters and quotes: -- 50 innovation techniques: addendums -- Step #1: Probe the constituency: Questions to consider -- Step #2: Observe the real situation: Questions to consider -- Step #3: Develop new concepts: Questions to consider -- Step #4: Converge and build prototypes: Questions to consider -- Step #5: Implementation process: Questions to consider -- Categories of innovation -- Accident as innovation -- Quotes -- Innovation cases -- References -- Index -- About the author |
| Summary |
Overview: More and more organizations are realizing that the only hope for survival in an ultracompetitive landscape is through innovation: developing new and better products and services-and creating efficient processes for delivering them. Designed for managers, team leaders, and trainers looking to promote innovation at work, the book is packed with 55 activities to help participants: Employ visioning and brainwriting processes to achieve breakthroughs; Cultivate a sense of curiosity and inquisitiveness; Utilize methods of deep observation; Build networks for open source innovation and creative collaboration; Use images to spark ideas and connections; Develop out-of-the-box techniques for problemsolving; Deal with failure successfully and productively; Spot trends and determine "the next step". Innovation at Work contains worksheets, questions, and case studies to inspire discussion as well as assessments for determining managers' openness to innovation. Innovation isn't just about the next iPod, and it's not just for scientists. This handy book provides readers with a roadmap for fostering creativity and innovation in any team in any industry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Management -- Technological innovations
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Creative ability in business.
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Teams in the workplace.
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Organizational change.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate Governance.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
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Creative ability in business
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Management -- Technological innovations
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Organizational change
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Teams in the workplace
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012017450 |
| ISBN |
9780814432365 |
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0814432360 |
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