Building a Culture of Innovation
A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your Business
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2015
232 pages
978-0-7494-7448-5 (ISBN)
Description
SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Category
Being a truly innovative company is more than dreaming up new products and services by external consultants and internal taskforces. Staying one step ahead of the competition requires you to embed innovation into your organizational culture. Innovation needs to be embodied in everything that gets done by everyone who works there. By changing your organizational culture to one that supports Building a Culture of Innovation, you will remove the barriers that stop you responding quickly and agilely to changing market conditions and opportunities for growth.
Building a Culture of Innovation presents a practical framework that you can follow to design and embed a culture of innovation in your business.The six-step Innovation Culture Change Framework offers a structured process to make change stick, from assessing your organization's innovation-readiness to leading a managed change process that will foster innovation at each level. It includes case studies from international organizations which have shifted their focus to an innovation culture, including Prudential, Qinetiq, Octopus Investments, Cisco, Siemens, BrightMove Media, Waitrose and Feefo.
Supported with downloadable resources, Building a Culture of Innovation is an essential read for business leaders and change implementation teams who want to place innovation at the heart of their business strategy.
Being a truly innovative company is more than dreaming up new products and services by external consultants and internal taskforces. Staying one step ahead of the competition requires you to embed innovation into your organizational culture. Innovation needs to be embodied in everything that gets done by everyone who works there. By changing your organizational culture to one that supports Building a Culture of Innovation, you will remove the barriers that stop you responding quickly and agilely to changing market conditions and opportunities for growth.
Building a Culture of Innovation presents a practical framework that you can follow to design and embed a culture of innovation in your business.The six-step Innovation Culture Change Framework offers a structured process to make change stick, from assessing your organization's innovation-readiness to leading a managed change process that will foster innovation at each level. It includes case studies from international organizations which have shifted their focus to an innovation culture, including Prudential, Qinetiq, Octopus Investments, Cisco, Siemens, BrightMove Media, Waitrose and Feefo.
Supported with downloadable resources, Building a Culture of Innovation is an essential read for business leaders and change implementation teams who want to place innovation at the heart of their business strategy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
File size
1,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-7448-5 (9780749474485)
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Cris Beswick | Derek Bishop | Jo Geraghty
Building a Culture of Innovation
A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your Business
Book
12/2015
1st Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
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Persons
Cris Beswick spent over a decade as a successful entrepreneur & CEO building an award-winning design group. He then founded The Future Shapers, an innovation consultancy specializing in strategy, leadership and culture required for innovation.
Derek Bishop has over twenty years' as an expert on culture change and is considered one of the leading thinkers on creating high-performance cultures. Derek is the co-founder of boutique agency Culture Consultancy, helping to deliver sustainable performance improvements through successful organizational culture change.
Jo Geraghty, former head of HR for Goldman Sachs France and Switzerland, brings a wealth of practitioner experience to change projects. With a global expert reputation, Jo specializes in working with leadership teams of global organizations operating in large, complex and regulated environments.
Derek Bishop has over twenty years' as an expert on culture change and is considered one of the leading thinkers on creating high-performance cultures. Derek is the co-founder of boutique agency Culture Consultancy, helping to deliver sustainable performance improvements through successful organizational culture change.
Jo Geraghty, former head of HR for Goldman Sachs France and Switzerland, brings a wealth of practitioner experience to change projects. With a global expert reputation, Jo specializes in working with leadership teams of global organizations operating in large, complex and regulated environments.
Content
Chapter - 01: Introduction: So you think your organization innovates?; Chapter - 02: Understanding where you are today Chapter - 03: Building an innovation leadership team; Chapter - 04: Designing the future; Chapter - 05: Communication and people engagement; Chapter - 06: Building innovation aptitude; Chapter - 07: Embedding a culture of innovation; Chapter - 08: Conclusion
