Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation - Couverture rigide

Deschamps, Jean–Philippe

9780470515242: Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation

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ISBN 10 : 0470515244 ISBN 13 : 9780470515242

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2008

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Innovation Leaders Innovation leaders promote and address the innovation agenda in their company. Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation. They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete innovation initiatives and do not hesitate to personally coach innovation teams.

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In his breakthrough work, Innovation Leaders, Jean–Philippe Deschamps provides brilliant insights and useful frameworks about the role of leadership in the innovation process. While others talk about innovation systems, Deschamps goes to the heart of the problem: the need for strong, engaged leaders to guide the innovation process. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to build an innovative organization. –– Bill George, Professor of Management Practice, Henry B. Arthur Fellow of Ethics, at Harvard Business School and author of Authentic Leadership and True North

This book is a landmark &8211; a must to read for all who are concerned with Innovation practitioners and academicians alike! Innovation is given a new, powerful meaning in this book a senior management leadership task! The responsibility for Innovation is therefore clear Deschamps has done a great job to take this complex issue into an impressive, minimalistic synthesis. ––Peter Lorange, IMD President, The Nestl� Professor Strategy, DBA Harvard University

Who says innovation can′t be managed? True, few large organizations do it well, but that′s often because they lack leaders with the skills Jean–Philippe Deschamps details in Innovation Leaders. If you want to become your company′s next innovation leader, your time will be well spent studying what Deschamps has to say about the six critical abilities you′ll need, and how to match them with the situation you find yourself in. ––Robert M. Tomasko, author of Rethinking the Corporation, Go for Growth and Bigger Isn′t Always Better

Jean–Philippe′s insights in the areas of technology development and strategic approach to R&D are obvious and clearly visible in his writings. His ability to mix actual hands on experiences with direct interactions with the top technical executives of innovative companies make this book an asset to remember! ––Mahmood Rad, Director Product Development Office, Harley Davidson

This outstanding book provides deep understanding of a topic that has been little explored or understood up to this time. Jean–Philippe Deschamps′ unique world of experience has blended close hands–on participation in the real time commercial environment where innovation and product development succeed or fail with the academic opportunity to experience, reflect, think, and learn. Jean–Philippe shares with his readers the sharp insights into success and failure that distinguish the reflective practitioner.′ ––Kemp Dwenger, Founder, Director, IAPD International Association for Product Development

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Innovation leaders promote and address the innovation agenda in their company. Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation. They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete innovation initiatives and do not hesitate to personally coach innovation teams.

For innovation to occur leadership has to be collective. To create a momentum for innovation in their company, leaders from different functions need to team up, to build innovation networks. Innovation leadership is not just an innate talent that can be selected at the hiring level. It can be developed within an appropriate company culture through careful leadership development, typically achieved through career management and coaching. Innovation leaders also need to stay on board and it is the responsibility of the top management team to create an attractive climate to develop and keep its innovation leaders.

There are plenty of books that deal with innovation, or with new product development, or with leadership; this is different in its focus on the specifics of innovation leadership that particular form of leadership that stimulates and sustains innovation.

This book maps the broad territory of innovation leadership and contributes new thinking on the focus of the emerging leadership role of the CTO; distinction between front end and back end innovation leaders; the concept of aligning leadership styles with strategy; and the chain of leadership concept.

Combining practice–based and empirical research–based observations with simple conceptual frameworks, illustrated by many company examples and case stories from a broad range of industries in the US and Europe, this is a systematic presentation of innovation drivers and their implications in terms of what leaders need to do to make it work.

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