The Innovative Enterprise {ReadingNotes}

Harvard Business Review on the Innovative Enterprise edited by Peter F. Drucker and John Seely Brown - ISBN 159139130X - Harvard Business School Press 2003

Motivation

Present from Sylvain.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• Creativity Under the Gun
  • Study on how pressure can kill or inspire innovation (p1)
  • based on a large study but through self-measurements
  • mostly distinguishing 4 main types and that their impact depends on the organization
• ToughMinded Ways to Get Innovative
  • establish sustainable innovation thanks to 5 keys action within networks of innocation(p27)
    • Start at the top
    • Always innovate to rise
    • Know the competitive dynamics of your business
    • Performance where innovation lives
    • ...
• Breaking Out of the Innovation Box
  • intermediaries, who are they, are they required and what is their potential (p49)
• The Sputtering R&D Machine
  • Case study in the appliance business regarding short-term safe innovation (retro designs) vs. long-term riskier innovation (networked appliances) (p67)
• Inspiring Innovation
  • 16 very short comments from export spawning from theoretical research at CERN to corporate at IBM (p89)
• The Discipline of Innovation
  • Innovating with a purpose but success through diligence, persistence and commitment (p111)
• Research That Reinvents the Corporation
  • Build an environment for continuous innovation and the example of how Xerox did it with PARC (p129)
    • see my Wiki#EvolutionOfMyWorkSpaces
• Creativity Is Not Enough
  • why the person who has idea may not be the best one to make it happen (p155)
  • Making Ideas Happen - Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky, Portfolio April 2010
  • Getting from Vision to Reality - The Business Beat, Penguin Group March 2010

See also

• The Myths Of Innovation
• Managing Creativity And Innovation

Overall remarks and questions

• this? that?

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Categories

• Business

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