Innovation : harnessing creativity for business growth
This important book seeks to find the characteristics and processes that distinguish truly innovative companies and to provide management tools that will inspire, deliver and commercialise new ideas. It is based on the findings of a huge research programme undertaken over a two-year period by the Design Council and the Innovation Unit at the UK Department of Trade and Industry. This programme set out to identify and recognise 1000 'millennium products' and to analyse the companies behind them
1 online resource (xi, 164 pages) : portraits
9780585445038, 9781597343404, 9780749436278, 0585445036, 1597343404, 0749436271
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Preface; Foreword; 1.1: Strategic Commitment
The Foundation Stone for Innovation; 1.2: A Culture of Innovation; 1.3: Stretching Performance; 1.4: Where People Come First; 1.5: Learning and Development; 2.1: Teams and Networks; 2.2: Leadership; 2.3: New Ways of Working; 2.4: Risk Management: Delivering a Project on Time, on Budget and Defect Free; 2.5: Intellectual Property; 2.6: Funding Innovation; 3.1: Partnering with Customers; 3.2: Information Systems: Innovation
It's Changed!; 3.3: Supply Chains: Collaborate to Innovate; 3.4: Design and Innovation
Published in association with the Design Council