Deschamps / Nelson Innovation Governance

How Top Management Organizes and Mobilizes for Innovation
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-58858-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, E-Book

The business leader's guide to encouraging continuous innovationin any organization
Innovation governance is a hot topic in the business world. In afast-paced business environment, the ability of corporate leadersto build purpose, direction, and focus for innovation is moreimportant than ever. In this book, the authors provide a frameworkfor encouraging and focusing innovation by explaining whatinnovation governance is, the various models for governance andtheir advantages and disadvantages, how to assess and improvegovernance practices, and behavioral tactics for maximizing theeffectiveness of governance. It offers guidance for everyone fromthe boardroom through senior management, illustrating effectivegovernance models with real case studies from a range of companiesin the United States and Europe.
* Addressesan important yet underappreciated skill for CEOs, board members,and top management
* Featuresreal-world examples and case studies from a variety of businessfrom around the world
* Writtenby an author team with hands-on experience in the subjects ofinnovation management, organizational learning, innovationleadership, organizational behavior, and individual leadership andteamwork
Innovation governance is a sadly neglected topic in manyorganizations. This book offers vital guidance and real-worldexperience for building innovation into any business from the topdown.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deschamps, Jean-Philippe

Nelson, Beebe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD ix
PREFACE: WHY SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO INNOVATIONGOVERNANCE? xvii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxv
PART I: ADDRESSING THE INNOVATION GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE1
1 WHAT IS INNOVATION GOVERNANCE? 3
2 GOVERNING INNOVATION IN PRACTICE: THE ROLE OF THE BOARD OFDIRECTORS 31
3 GOVERNING INNOVATION IN PRACTICE: THE ROLE OF THE TOPMANAGEMENT TEAM 49
PART II: CHOOSING BETWEEN ALTERNATIVE GOVERNANCE MODELS85
4 WHY FOCUS ON INNOVATION GOVERNANCE MODELS? 87
5 INNOVATION GOVERNANCE MODELS 107
6 WHICH MODELS SEEM TO WORK AND WHY? 135
PART III: LEARNING FROM THE FIELD 151
7 LEADING FROM THE TOP 153
Example 1 - IBM's Innovation Governance Model: ASuccession of CEOs Oversees "ContinuousTransformation"
8 LEADING FROM THE TOP 173
Example 2 - Corning's Innovation Governance Model:Two Executive Councils Execute Hands-on Governance
9 APPOINTING INDIVIDUAL INNOVATION CHAMPIONS 193
Example 1 - Nestlé's Innovation GovernanceModel: CTO in Partnership with Business Heads
10 APPOINTING INDIVIDUAL INNOVATION CHAMPIONS 223
Example 2 - DSM's Innovation Governance Model: TheEntrepreneurial CIO
11 SETTING UP A COLLECTIVE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM 247
Example - Tetra Pak's Innovation Governance Model:High-level Cross-functional Steering Groups
PART IV: DESIGNING YOUR OWN GOVERNANCE SYSTEM AND MAKING ITWORK 269
12 GETTING STARTED 271
How Michelin has Rethought its Governance Model
13 RECOGNIZING THE IMPERATIVES FOR AN EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCESYSTEM 299
14 ALIGNING INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE INNOVATION LEADERSHIP321
APPENDIX: EXAMPLES OF TASKS AND INITIATIVES TO SUPPORTINNOVATION 345
INDEX 351

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Philippe Deschamps is an innovation managementpractitioner with 40 years of international consulting experience.At IMD, which he joined in 1996 as professor of technology andinnovation management, he focuses his research, teaching andconsulting activities on the management and governance ofinnovation and on the profile and focus of innovation leaders.Before IMD, he was a vice president and practice leader withconsulting firm Arthur D. Little.
He is the author of numerous cases, articles and book chapters,and Product Juggernauts: How Companies Mobilize to GenerateStreams of Market Winners co-authoredwith P. Ranganath Nayak(Harvard Business School Press, 1995) and Innovation Leaders:How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation(Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2008).
He has given conferences and lectures throughout the world,including the prestigious 2010 Millenium Prize in Helsinki, theequivalent of the "Nobel prize" for technology andtwice as a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
He lives near Lausanne and is married to a practicingpsychoanalyst and author
Beebe Nelson has worked as an innovation and productdevelopment consultant and facilitator for the past 25 years. As co-director and then director of the IAPD (InternationalAssociation for Product Development) she helped leading innovationcompanies refine and improve their innovation practices. Herarticles on innovation and product development have appeared inpublications of the PDMA (Product Development and ManagementAssociation) as well as other professional publications, and shehas given lectures and seminars on innovation topics. Sheholds a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University and hastaught philosophy and management at the University of Massachusettsat Boston and at Lowell.
The publication of New Product Development for Dummies(co-authored with Robin Karol, Wiley, 2007) marked the maturity ofthe product development field and pointed clearly to the need forexcellence in innovation governance.