24/7 InnovationTechniques for Awakening Your Organization's Innovative Potential in a Global Marketplace That Never Sleeps Praise for Stephen Shapiro's 24/7 Innovation... "Shapiro's ideas provide just enough structure for innovation to grow, but never so much as to stifle it." "24/7 Innovation weaves a compelling picture of what will be needed to win in the new millennium." "Steve's book provides a timely focus on innovation as competitive advantage, and it is well worth your time." "Steve offers a pragmatic, global, business savvy realism as well as artistic flair to anyone who needs to be an innovator in business." "Steve shows how companies can be innovative everywhere, everyday, by everyone. This is a must read book for anyone who is serious about 24/7 innovation." In one of the great paradoxes of twenty-first-century business, market leaders must continuously pursue the obsolescence of their own bestselling products. Why? Because they know that beyond their own corporate walls, hungry competitors are "borrowing"and improving on the strengths of those products in order to take their hard-won customer base to the next level of satisfaction. And if they plan to stay on top, leaders know it is up to them to reach that next level first. Whether you are a leader or a pursuer, 24-7 Innovation takes you beyond the rigid policies, prescriptive processes, and fragmented organizational structures that have stifled true innovation for too long. This step-by-step book shows you how to instill a mind-set of continuous innovation at every level of your organization, one that will allow you to achieve and sustain a leadership position in any market. It outlines a lean, action-based framework designed to put your organization in the state of "perpetual innovation" that is necessary for creating sustainable business success. Look to 24/7 Innovation for the latest techniques and strategies to:
Moving far beyond theory, 24/7 Innovation reveals what today's most innovative companies are actually doing right now and provides guidelines to help you replicate these successes in your own organization. It offers a blueprint for creating a truly flexible organization, one that builds upon current successes even as it promotes rapid change and adaptability for maximizing those successes. In today's age of unprecedented access and unlimited competition, constant change is the prerequisite for survival. Let 24/7 Innovation show you how to introduce constant change throughout every level of your organization revolutionary change that is strategic, pervasive, and ultimately overwhelming to your competitors. |
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Stephen M. Shapiro. Copyright © 2002 by Accenture. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or ...
... 2002 by Accenture. Click Here for Terms of Use. Appendixes A. A Tale of Four Companies 251 B. Innovation For more information abou this title, click here. Contents.
... 2002 by Accenture. Click Here for Terms of Use. A lthough businesses over the years have used innovative approaches PROLOGUE FROM BOXES TO LINES.
Stephen M. Shapiro. Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Change Copyright 2002 by Accenture. Click Here for Terms of Use. This page intentionally left blank. INNOVATION FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE “Creativity P 1 A R T PART 1 Surviving and ...
... 2002 by Accenture. Click Here for Terms of Use. and helps it stay there. Done well, the implementation of. 1. CHAPTER 1 INNOVATION FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.
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PART 3 Making It Happen | 171 |
EPILOGUE LOOKING TO THE FUTURE | 239 |
APPENDIXES | 251 |
Notes | 285 |
Bibliography | 289 |
About the Author | 290 |
Index | 291 |
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24/7 Innovation: A Blueprint for Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Change Stephen M. Shapiro No preview available - 2002 |