Hijfte Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation

Tools and Concepts to Solve Problems and Generate Ideas
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4842-6507-9
Verlag: APRESS
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 188 Seiten

Reihe: Apress Access Books

The call for innovation within both society and all sectors of enterprise at large grows louder every day. In order to achieve this, organizations need to attract talent with the insight and creativity necessary to be able to understand the needs of not only this generation, but also future generations. Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation introduces key frameworks that can be adapted to any business or team focused on innovation.

Some aspects that are crucial for an organization to become a center of innovation are change management, process mining, and overall company strategy. Author Stijn Van Hijfte also introduces you to newer techniques that are still making their way up the ladder to overall industry adoption. These include AI, blockchain, and intelligent automation. Van Hijfte also takes care to ensure you choose the right innovation strategy for your specific company goals, as opposed to solely showing off the latest industry trends within the topic.

Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation is perfect for business leaders, students, recruiters, and more. You will come away with insights about how to best prepare your team’s stakeholders for the changes that innovation brings. The mission and vision of your organization should always be promoting new ideas, but a roadmap is needed to implement them effectively. Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation is the guide you’ve been seeking.

What You Will Learn

• Discover key innovation and idea generation frameworks that can be molded to suit your organization
• Prepare stakeholders for the changes that will take place
• Choose the right strategy for the mission and vision of the company 
• Create an environment that actually promotes new ideas

Who This Book is For Professionals that have an interest in innovation and want to have a high-level understanding of technologies and trends that could be useful in their search towards new solutions.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hijfte, Stijn Van

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Call for Innovation.- 2. Company Strategy.- 3. Innovation Frameworks.- 4. Change Frameworks.- 5. Digital Solutions and Trends.- 6. Continuous Learning.- 7. Focus and Expertise.- 8. The Innovation Process.- 9. Concluding Remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Stijn Van Hijfte  has experience as a consultant, lecturer, and an innovation officer and has worked over the years with cloud, AI, automation, and blockchain technology. Since 2015 he has been experimenting and exploring the blockchain space, gaining deeper insight into the entire ecosystem. This insight ranges from setting up nodes and writing smart contracts, to the legal implications of GDPR, ICOs, and cryptocurrencies. Among others, he holds degrees in economics, IT, and data science. He currently works at Deloitte as a senior consultant and as a lecturer at Howest Applied University College.