E-Book, Englisch, 333 Seiten
Shteyn / Shtein Scalable Innovation
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4665-9098-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A Guide for Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and IP Professionals
E-Book, Englisch, 333 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4665-9098-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Innovation is a primary source of economic growth, and yet only one idea out of 3,000 becomes a successful product or service. Scalable Innovation: A Guide for Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and IP Professionals introduces a model for the innovation process, helping innovators to understand the nature and timing of opportunities and risks on the path to success. The authors apply systems thinking to discover real-life challenges, and provide tools for turning these challenges into opportunities for practical, scalable innovation.
The book is organized into four sections:
- Prologue exposes key barriers to creativity and innovation. It provides telling examples of how years in school and at work make us accept common wisdoms that are likely to hurt our chances to create or take advantage of breakthrough innovations.
- Section I introduces a system model for understanding technology and solving problems. It shows how to connect the model with real-life solutions, including their reflection in patents.
- Section II introduces tools for thinking outside the box, considers the role of luck in success of inventions, and presents tools for flexible thinking and imagination development.
- Section III discusses system dynamics, including how the elements of systems evolve, creating space for invention and scalable innovation. The authors illustrate this with case studies from various industries and technology areas. They analyze several landmark innovations in detail, revealing surprising and essential elements common to all of them.
This book presents simple principles that form the foundation of successful innovation, enabling practitioners to anticipate and expedite the creation of value through the guided innovation process. It outlines the most common barriers in reasoning and false beliefs about innovation that impede practitioners from seeing problems in a new light and offers specific ways of dealing with these barriers. It also provides specific tools for quickly identifying essential present and missing elements of systems underpinning high-value problems and their proposed solutions, resulting in an accelerated innovation development and evaluation cycle.
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PROLOGUE: Unlearning What’s Untrue. SECTION I Systems. Invention: An Attempt to Improve the World. Understanding Inventions: A Brief Introduction to the System Model. Understanding Patents: An Application of the System Model. System Interfaces: How the Elements Work Together. System Control Points: Where to Aim the Silver Bullets. SECTION II Outside the Box. Outside the Box: Developing Skills for Creative Thinking. Seeing the Outlines of the Box: Discovering the Boundaries of a System. Inventor’s Luck: A System Perspective. The Three Magicians: Tools for Flexible Thinking. Imagination Development: Seeing the World beyond Present-Day Constraints. SECTION III System Evolution and Innovation Timing. The S Curve: Dynamics of Systems Thinking. A Stage of System Evolution: Synthesis. A Stage of System Evolution: Early Growth. A Stage of System Evolution: Distribution Buildup. Growing Up: A Paradigm Shift within the System. Infrastructure Innovations: Timing Is Everything. Infrastructure and Growth: Zooming In on the Micro Level. A Stage of System Evolution: Efficiency. Payload Evolution: From Physical to Virtual. The Web Is Dead: Abandoning Documents and Files in Favor of Information Streams. Deconstructing Luck: Factors Affecting the Success of a System. Seeing the Invisible: The System behind the New Internet. The Book Electric: A Scenario of E-Book Evolution. Payload Overload: Managing the Ever-Increasing Flows of Information. Anticipating Control Problems: The Telegram before the Train. System Efficiency: Solving Detection Problems to Improve Control. Stages of System Evolution: Deep Integration. Choosing the Right Problem: Matching Innovation Targets with Stages of System Evolution. Tech Battles: Discovering System-Level Competitive Advantages. TiVo versus VCR: A Detailed Application Example of the Tech Battle Technique.
