Bücher der Reihe Management Handbooks for Results

Jim Harrington and Frank Voehl have gathered together the thoughts and ideas of more than 20 of the most creative innovation thought-leaders from business, professional practice, and academia in this compelling book. The thought leaders look at innovation from almost every angle.

Written for organizational leaders, planners, facilitators, and consultants, this book defines how the four different planning activities used to manage and improve an organization should be merged to maximize effectiveness. Stating that the four plans for organization improvement are the business plan, strategic business plan, strategic improvement plan, and operating plan, it defines each and explains how to link them together to reduce cost and cycle times. The text incorporates sufficient flexibility so readers can adapt and revise, based on changing business needs and marketplace opportunities.

This book outlines and discusses the framework (or lifecycle) for innovation. This book provides a comprehensive look at the Innovation Body of Knowledge for product strategy, marketing, R&D, development, and commercialization functions.

The objective of this standard is to provide a framework on how to build an innovation ecosystem that can be sustained over time. Similar to the quality management system that ISO established decades ago, this standard provides instructions related to best practices on how to manage innovation activities, projects, and programs.