Riding the innovation wave : learning to create value from ideas

Author

• Bessant, John

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9781787145702

Series

Subject(s)

• ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• NEW BUSSINESS ENTERPRISES

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 271-276. Index: p. 277-282

Abstract

Innovation matters - being able to create value from ideas is crucial to survival and growth. But while any organization might get lucky once being able to repeat the trick requires learning and developing particular ways of working which enable the process. Over a hundred years of research and practical experience now provides a knowledge base from which we can draw to help develop such approaches.
But how do we move from prescription to implementation? And how does the innovation challenge play out over the lifetime of an organization? How does it renew its capability to innovate and do so against a background of dramatically changing markets, technologies and social trends?
This book draws on a detailed history of a large German company (HELLA ), now active in over 35 countries, employing 34,000 people. It didn't start out that way, it began as an entrepreneurial start-up in the late 19th century in the (then) uncertain early days of the car industry. It moved from selling whips and other buggy accessories for horse-drawn carriages to horns and lamps for the new-fangled motor cars beginning to appear on the roads of north-western Germany. The journey since then has been one of innovation - in products and processes, in entering new markets, in adding services to its products, and in changing its underlying business models. Survival for over a hundred years is not an accident - it has been built on learning how to innovate and on constantly challenging and updating those models.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

viii, 282 p.

Dimension

24 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Chapter 1. Introductions
Chapter 2. Hella's innovation history
Chapter 3. Patterns of innovation
Chapter 4. We are the champions
Chapter 5. Maintaining innovation momentum
Chapter 6. Mobilising entrepreneurial engagement
Chapter 7. Continuous improvement
Chapter 8. Frugal innovation
Chapter 9. Platform innovation
Chapter 10. Creating new networks
Chapter 11. Dealing with discontinuity
Chapter 12. Agile innovation
Chapter 13. Looking to the future
Notes, resources and reflection questions

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