Living Innovation


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Drawing upon real-world examples from across the globe, Lee and Lim explain the fundamentals of innovation, introduce emerging innovation tools, and outline new innovation strategies in order to demonstrate how innovation can contribute to the greater social good.




Living Innovation: Competing In The 21st Century Access Economy


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Living Innovation: Competing in the 21st Century Access Economy explores how the digital revolution has empowered customers, and how organizations have to innovate to gain a deeper understanding of user needs. Stepping away from the traditional mindset of products being the foremost concern of an organization, this book elaborates on how service value and the management of customer relationships are some of the new goals of an experience-driven economy. The ten chapters of this book provide insights and different perspectives into this new economy, including the consequences of the shift away from a product-based mindset, the role of the physical space as a stimulator of innovation and the keys to making service innovation a success.




Living Bread


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2020 James Beard Award Winner The major new cookbook by the pioneer from Bread Alone, who revolutionized American artisan bread baking, with 60 recipes inspired by bakers around the world. At twenty-two, Daniel Leader stumbled across the intoxicating perfume of bread baking in the back room of a Parisian boulangerie, and he has loved and devoted himself to making quality bread ever since. He went on to create Bread Alone, the now-iconic bakery that has become one of the most beloved artisan bread companies in the country. Today, professional bakers and bread enthusiasts from all over the world flock to Bread Alone's headquarters in the Catskills to learn Dan's signature techniques and baking philosophy. But though Leader is a towering figure in bread baking, he still considers himself a student of the craft, and his curiosity is boundless. In this groundbreaking book, he offers a comprehensive picture of bread baking today for the enthusiastic home baker. With inspiration from a community of millers, farmers, bakers, and scientists, Living Bread provides a fascinating look into the way artisan bread baking has evolved and continues to change--from wheat farming practices and advances in milling, to sourdough starters and the mechanics of mixing dough. Influenced by art and science in equal measure, Leader presents exciting twists on classics such as Curry Tomato Ciabatta, Vegan Brioche, and Chocolate Sourdough Babka, as well as traditional recipes. Sprinkled with anecdotes and evocative photos from Leader's own travels and encounters with artisans who have influenced him, Living Bread is a love letter, and a cutting-edge guide, to the practice of making "good bread."




Living Innovation


Book Description

Drawing upon real-world examples from across the globe, Lee and Lim explain the fundamentals of innovation, introduce emerging innovation tools, and outline new innovation strategies in order to demonstrate how innovation can contribute to the greater social good.




The Innovation Butterfly


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Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple firms and across the globe and constitute a complex system consisting of many interacting parts. In the spirit of the "butterfly effect", metaphorically describing the sensitivity to initials conditions of chaotic systems, this book builds an argument that "innovation butterflies" can, in the short term, take up significant amounts of effort and sap efficiencies within individual innovation projects. Such "innovation butterflies" can be prompted by external forces such as government legislation or unexpected spikes in the price of basic goods (such as oil), unexpected shifts in market tastes, or from a company manager’s decisions or those of its competitors. Even the smallest change, the smallest disruption, to this system can steer a firm down an unpredictable and irreversibly different path in terms of technology and market evolution. In the long term, they can shift the balance of the entire innovation portfolio into unplanned directions. More importantly, we describe how innovation leaders can influence the emergent behavior of the system for good or ill. The first half of the book draws parallels from physics, economics, and sociology as well as evidence from multiple industries to describe the structural and behavioral causes of emergent phenomena in innovation settings as well as their often negative impacts. In the second half of the book, we turn to distributed management of innovation under emergence. We show that innovation butterflies, if improperly managed, most often lead to negative outcomes. On the other hand, it is also argued that while the complexity of the innovation system and the desire to experiment and try new and emergent alternatives precludes precise planning, innovation leaders can actually tame innovation butterflies through the design and implementation of appropriate processes, strategies, tools and leadership choices.




Strategies for Responsible Innovation


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How can responsible business work in the highly competitive areas of innovation? Focusing on business opportunities and illustrating how Responsible Innovation can be successfully implemented in practice, this book captures experiences and insights from key decision‐makers in business, politics, and academia, to answer this question. In addition to interviews with leading thinkers in the field, Strategies for Responsible Innovation describes the experiences of eight EU projects and provides tools for Responsible Innovation in the business sector. The examples in this book illustrate how to move from a vague societal aspiration to a business case for Responsible Innovation, and provide a compelling argument for collaboration at the important intersection between government, business, and academia. In this way, Responsible Innovation transcends a singular market-based approach to deliver value at many levels, co-creating in a truly inclusive manner. The book sheds light on the strategic benefits of applying the concept of Responsible Innovation in practice and offers concrete tools for its implementation. Aimed primarily at managers of innovation processes in organizations, and consultants and facilitators working on Responsible Innovation and sustainability management, the book also provides insight into the logic and principles of Responsible Innovation management for academics, policy-makers, and civil society organizations, helping them better communicate their requirements to business.




Learning a Living


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The book of the 2013 World Innovation Summit for Education highlights the most innovative programs worldwide successfully preparing students for the world of work.




Innovative Management Perspectives on Confronting Contemporary Challenges


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In view of the prolonged financial meltdown and the resulting clash of socio-economic interests, both between nations and within societies, unforeseen challenges have to be met by contemporary managers. The current organizational, financial, political and social situation calls for innovative, out-of-the-box solutions, while also presenting a unique "opportunity" for management scholars, practitioners and policy makers to work out and bring forward creative and imaginative, as well as realistic, responses to problems. Appealing to scholars, students, researchers and practitioners, and covering a wide spectrum of organizational types and institutions, this book provides scientific evidence, direction and insight on issues associated with confronting challenges related to the contemporary socio-economic scenario. In this respect, the presents conceptual and empirical research, putting forward a wide range of paradigms and ideas transcending conventional theory, on finding innovative solutions to contemporary business and managerial challenges. It brings forward contemporary theoretical underpinning across an array of sectors and organizational structures, while also presenting their practical implementations -- Book jacket.




Living in the Innovation Age


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Innovation is not about a faster horse... Have you ever wondered why only a handful of companies are so successful at continuously introducing game changing innovations? Most experts agree that we have transitioned into The Innovation Age - an age where innovation is not an option, nor a luxury, but an absolute necessity for survival and success. So how does one thrive in this new era of constant innovation? The answer lies in understanding how successful companies such as Procter & Gamble, 3M, Google, Apple, and many others have embraced innovation to continuously venture into new and unchartered waters. In Living in the Innovation Age, author and innovation expert, Tarak Modi discusses five principles of innovation based on his experience and research over the years that can help organizational leaders and companies prosper in this fundamentally unique era of innovation. In addition, Modi offers practical advice on several powerful techniques that anyone can use to make innovation work in their organization. To help organizations embark on their innovation journey, he explains the typical innovation lifecycle and presents a pragmatic, ready-to-use innovation maturity model that lays out a roadmap of proven techniques to help organizations improve their innovation "maturity." Highlights include: Five principles that can help companies prosper in the Innovation Age. Practical advice on several powerful techniques that anyone can use to make innovation work in their own organization. An explanation of the typical innovation lifecycle, innovation metrics, and a pragmatic, ready-to-use innovation maturity model that can help any organization embark on its innovation journey. Insights into key concepts including the "customer centric paradox" and the "first mover advantage fallacy."




Cases on Enhancing Business Sustainability Through Knowledge Management Systems


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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a reality for pioneering organizations while they are facing complex and multifaceted aspects of business sustainability with ambiguous and changing ethical norms and vague or nonexistent legislation. The first quarter of the 21st century was identified as the beginning of the continuous, ongoing, and accelerating wave of simultaneous general purpose technologies revolutions causing accelerated shrinkage of the half-life of knowledge. Cases on Enhancing Business Sustainability Through Knowledge Management Systems presents teaching case studies exploring the formulation and implementation of knowledge management systems (KMS) in organizations. Covering topics such as automation, machine learning, and socio-ecological innovation, this case book is an essential resource for business leaders and managers, IT managers, entrepreneurs, government officials, computer scientists, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.