Create Competitive Advantage with Innovation (Collection) Book

Innovation that Fits: Moving Beyond the Fads to Choose the RIGHT Innovation Strategy for Your Business

About the Authors xiii

1 Making Sense of Innovation Fads and Fashions 1

2 Corporate Venturing: Best of Both Worlds or Venturing Too Far? 27

3 The Virtual Asset-Lite Model: Intellectual Property Licensing 67

4 Innovation by Alliance: Reconsidering Innovation Collaboration 103

5 R&D by M&A: Innovation by Acquisition 141

6 Spinnovation: Liberating Value or Spinning Out of Control? 175

7 Conclusion: Toward a New Model for Innovation 207

Endnotes 233

Index 239

Doing Both: Capturing Today's Profit and Driving Tomorrow's Growth

Acknowledgments xiii

Author’s Note to the Reader xvii

Chapter 1 Doing Both 1

Chapter 2 New & Improved and The Next Big Thing 7

Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation

Chapter 3 Current Accounts and Future Conquests 33

Existing and New Business Models

Chapter 4 Tuning and Transforming 57

Optimization and Reinvention

Chapter 5 Satisfied Customers and Gratified Partners 77

Direct Touch and Leveraged Influence
Chapter 6 The Beaten Path and The Road Less Traveled 95
Established and Emerging Countries

Chapter 7 Doing Things Right and Doing What Matters 113

Excellence and Relevance

Chapter 8 Michael Phelps and The Redeem Team 137

Superstar Performers and Winning Teams

Chapter 9 West Point and Woodstock 151

Authoritative Leadership and Democratic Decision Making

Chapter 10 The Journey Begins 169

Epilogue 173

About the Author 177

Endnotes 179

Index 187

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise

Preface xxi

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

Part I: Challenge Driven Innovation: How a Marketplace of Innovation Allows Us to Reframe the Innovation Model, Improve Performance, and Manage Risk

Chapter 2: The Future of Value Creation 21

Chapter 3: A New Innovation Framework 39

Chapter 4: The Long Tail of Expertise 67

Chapter 5: The Selection of Appropriate Innovation Channels 91

Part II: The Challenge Driven Enterprise: Virtualizing the Business Model to Drive Innovation, Agility, and Value Creation

Chapter 6: The Challenge Driven Enterprise 117

Chapter 7: Transformation 139

Chapter 8: The Challenge Driven Enterprise Playbook 163

Chapter 9: Leadership 199

Afterword 219

Endnotes 221

Supplemental Reading 227

Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business

Introduction 1

Disruptive Thinking:

The Revolution is in Full Swing

PART I: The Hypotheses, the Opportunity, and the Ideas

Chapter 1 16

Crafting a Disruptive Hypothesis:

Be Wrong at the Start, to be Right at the End

Chapter 2 38

Discovering a Disruptive Opportunity:

Explore the Least Obvious

Chapter 3 76

Generating a Disruptive Idea:

Unexpected Ideas Have Fewer Competitors

PART II: The Solution and the Pitch

Chapter 4 106

Shaping a Disruptive Solution:

Novelty for Novelty’s Sake is a Resource Killer

Chapter 5 142

Making a Disruptive Pitch:

Under Prepare the Obvious, Over Prepare the Unusual

Epilogue 171

An Instinct for Change:

Look Where No One Else is Looking

Quick Reference Guide 173

Process Summary

Endnotes 183

Index 191