Making Innovative Work: How to manage it, measure it, and profit from it
By, Tony Davila
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Class No.: 658.406322 DAV
Accession No.: 014578
Year: 2005
Pages: 368 p.

Of the week: 15th Oct. to 21st Oct., 2007

"To compete effectively, you must innovate: Not just once, but consistently, in all your products, services, and business functions. But, profitable innovation doesn't just ""happen."" It must be managed, measured, executed on¿and few companies do that well. Making Innovation Work offers the first real solution: A start-to-finish process for driving growth from innovation.

The authors draw on unsurpassed innovation, consulting experience, and a thorough review of innovation research. Their techniques have been proven at top companies ranging from Apple and GE to Toyota. In this book, they demonstrate what works, what doesn't, and how to use all your management tools to maximize the value of your innovation investments.

You'll learn how to define effective strategies and organizational structures for innovation, manage innovation more successfully, incent teams to deliver, and infuse metrics throughout every phase of the innovation process. Simply put, Making Innovation Work takes the mystery out of profitable innovation, showing how to lead it, track it, incent it, and get more of it.