Cris Beswick, Derek Bishop, Jo Geraghty

Building a Culture of Innovation

A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your Business

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 5493
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780749474478
• ISBN-10: 0749474475
• Artikelnr.: 42556559

Autorenporträt

Cris Beswick is a speaker and consultant, specializing in advising executive teams on the strategy, leadership, and culture required to drive innovation. He is the founder of Cris Beswick Consulting and has contributed to articles for The Times, The Financial Times, The Independent , and The Sunday Telegraph. Jo Geraghty is Director of Culture Consultancy, which advises companies in organizational cultural alignment, culture change, and people engagement, and guest lectures at business schools in the UK. She was previously Head of HR for the Paris, Zurich, and Geneva offices of Goldman Sachs. Derek Bishop has over twenty years' experience leading people and delivering business results in high volume and complex environments. As an expert on culture change, leadership development, and customer experience he is considered one of the leading thinkers on creating high-performance businesses.

Inhaltsangabe

• • 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

Rezensionen

"Clear practical steps to embed a culture of innovation and an enjoyable read. This is a really practical guide for any organization aiming to put innovation at the centre of its business strategy. It does what it claims to do; defining a culture of innovation and giving some easy to use tools within a six-stage framework to make the journey successful. The concepts and tools in this book are clear, practical and easy to use - it will help to make innovation central to your strategy." Irene Stark, Group HR Director, ATS Euromaster