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Innovative Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Leading Sustainable Innovation in Your Organization
by David S. Weiss Claude LegrandInnovation is a key source of competitive advantage, but it remains frustratingly elusive for many organizations. This book shows you how to close the innovation gap by making individuals and organizations systematically and sustainably innovative. You will learn how to embrace a culture of innovation and make it permeate every level of the organization. You will find a clear road map and practical tools to redefine your workplace's culture, identify and tap into the existing innovative intelligence, and develop leaders who can close the innovation gap for greater business success.
Innovative Korea: Leveraging Innovation and Technology for Development
by Hoon Sahib Soh, Youngsun Koh, and Anwar AridiThe Republic of Korea today is a highly industrialized, global leader in innovation and technology. It is the 10th largest economy in the world and has a per capita income approaching the average of OECD countries. In the 1950s, however, it was one of the world’s poorest countries, with decidedly bleak prospects. Its transformation has made Korea a well-known case study of successful development. Innovative Korea: Leveraging Innovation and Technology for Development summarizes the sources of Korea’s remarkable growth and the policies and institutional reforms that made it possible. The report focuses on Korea’s successful transition from a middle-income to a high-income economy. Korea escaped from the “middle-income trap†? by fundamentally transforming its growth paradigm to a more private-sector-led model emphasizing market competition, innovation, and technology. Compared to the previous emphasis on large fi rms and industries, the government became more focused on promoting small and medium enterprises and technology entrepreneurs. Exports expanded significantly through greater integration in global value chains. Already-high levels of human capital development were complemented by an expanded social safety net and a more integrated approach to education and training. Korea succeeded by focusing on the foundations of long-run growth, building global capabilities in innovation and technology, and adapting and evolving its growth paradigm to promote new sources of growth. Innovative Korea, jointly prepared by the World Bank and the Korea Development Institute, provides useful insights on Korea’s development story and practical lessons for public policy making.
The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire your Team and Drive Creativity
by Paul Sloane"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." Jack Welch, former CEO, GEThe Innovative Leader stresses the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage over rivals. It shows how to apply the methods described to the individual, to others and to the organization.Author Paul Sloane demonstrates the importance of setting out your vision clearly and emphasizes the need for continual evaluation of the process. Numerous international examples illustrate how organizations such as Virgin, Body Shop, WPP and 3M have benefited from this approach, encouraging excellence and entrepreneurship through setting challenging goals to keep employees motivated and engaged.
Innovative Leadership in Times of Compelling Changes: Strategies, Reflections and Tools (Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership)
by Joan MarquesThis book focuses on the need of leaders in professional and personal realms to understand the importance of innovative thinking to safeguard sustainability and enhance satisfaction and motivation among stakeholders in organizations. It provides professionals with a set of reflective stances, cautionary points, and roadmaps that enable them to do the right thing. From crisis management to spiritual practices, and from pro-social concepts to social responsibility and sustainability: the common denominator is a collective and concerted effort to develop leadership behaviors and strategies to safeguard generations to come.
The Innovative Lean Enterprise: Using the Principles of Lean to Create and Deliver Innovation to Customers
by Jr., Anthony SgroiThis book explains how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning. It outlines simple yet powerful visual Lean tools that can enhance idea generation and product development. It discusses customer value in the form of the benefits customers desire and walks readers through the processes of using Lean techniques to effectively evaluate the quality of any prospective marketing opportunity. Filled with examples that readers can easily relate to, it includes examples from a variety of industries including healthcare.
The Innovative Lean Machine: Synchronizing People, Branding, and Strategy to Win in the Marketplace
by Jr., Anthony SgroiIn order for an organization to thrive in a competitive business environment, its strategy, people, and branding must be fully optimized. The Innovative Lean Machine: Synchronizing People, Branding, and Strategy to Win in the Marketplace explains how to use Lean principles and visual tools to maximize these core components in any business.The book
Innovative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles: Interdependencies, Transformation Strategies and Decision Making
by Ani Melkonyan Klaus KrummeThis edited volume aims to describe the transformation of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics services by merging sustainable logistics, SCM, sustainable consumption and lifestyle research. This assessment of the transformation potential serves the development of sustainable business models and optimized decision-making systems for achieving sustainable economic value creation within a green economy. In 5 sections, the volume takes a unique transdisciplinary approach to assess sustainable business practices within SCM and the logistics sector, and to understand the interactions between logistics services and consumer lifestyles while creating transparency within the decision making process. This book will be of particular interest to academics, policymakers, planners, and politicians. Section 1 introduces readers to the importance of blended research and innovation between sustainable SCM and consumer lifestyles for transformation towards a green economy. Section 2 addresses the question of how trends and developments in consumption behavior and lifestyles influence the development of sustainable logistics. Section 3 discusses the transformation potential towards sustainable logistics using the food sector as an example. Section 4 focuses on strategic decision making in SCM, and how long-term improvements of sustainability performance can be achieved. Section 5 concludes with policy recommendations as well as research and innovation perspectives for future sustainable development with SCM and logistics.
Innovative Management And Firm Performance
by Maja Levi Jakšić Slađana Barjaktarović Rakočević Milan MartićThis book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.
The Innovative Management Education Ecosystem: Reskilling and Upskilling the Future Workforce (Routledge Focus on Business and Management)
by Jordi Diaz Daphne Halkias Paul W. ThurmanWith the world in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, associated labor market challenges are bringing changes to how business schools offer executive education to the future workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has further underlined the need for such change through impacts on today’s workforce and the expected developments that ongoing technological advancements will have on the workforce of the future. This book explores the need for business schools to strategically work to redefine the concept of an innovative business school ecosystem through commitment to experimentation and innovation. The authors advocate for such change to be realized through partnerships supporting actions that ensure graduates’ and workers’ access to skills building and reskilling and upskilling. The book presents selected case studies exemplifying such an approach and highlights best practices that can be implemented in public–private as well as private–private partnerships. The Innovative Management Education Ecosystem: Reskilling and Upskilling the Future Workforce offers readers from industry and academia as well as government institutions insights that will benefit the development of innovative curricula and training programs and, at the same time, labor markets.
Innovative Management in Information and Production
by Bing Xu Berlin Wu Junzo WatadaInnovative Management in Information and Production is based on the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Innovative Management, Information and Production. This symposium is held by International Society of Management Engineers. The symposium took place on October 8-10, in HCMC, Vietnam. This book examines recent innovative management of information and productions such as digital collection management and operations planning, scheduling and control.
Innovative Marketing Communications: Strategies For The Events Industry (Events Management)
by Emma Wood Guy MastermanInnovative Marketing Communications for Events Management provides students and event managers with a complete insight into the strategic and innovative marketing of events of all scales and nature. The book builds a conceptual framework for the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of innovative communication strategies for the marketing of events, and the effective use of events as an innovative communications method in general organizational marketing.With a strong practical underpinning, Innovative Marketing Communications for Events Management emphasises to event managers the importance of effectively integrating a range of tools and techniques to communicate the event and provides them with a better understanding of how a variety of private and public sector organisations can use events within their communication strategies.
The Innovative Mindset
by John Sweeney Elena ImaretskaRedefine what it means to be innovative The Innovative Mindset calls the accepted definition of innovation into question, urging you to consider how innovation might function as a behavior that you perpetuate, rather than an inflexible theory or corporate-defined initiative. By asking yourself what it takes to be innovative--and by being honest with yourself about the answer--you can incorporate innovation into your life much in the same way that you would a behavior to help you lose weight, increase your strength, learn to play the piano, or improve your relationships. This groundbreaking text helps you identify what you need to do in order to become more innovative and less fearful, and assists in creating a regimen that transforms how you act. Innovation has become one of the most popular buzz words of the Digital Age, and there is no better time to reevaluate the true meaning of a concept than when it is being touted by individuals and companies around the world. A fresh, practical understanding of innovation can revolutionize the way you think about work. Master innovation by reexamining what it means and how you can implement it as a behavior Explore the transformative power of the Mindset of Discovery in poignant, up-to-date case studies and improvisation-based tenets Spark innovation, maximize productivity, and increase profitability as a result of implementing the Big Five behaviors Boost performance as you foster and leverage your new approach towards innovation The Innovative Mindset reevaluates the nature of innovation and shows how a change in perspective can lead to more dynamic, more successful endeavors.
Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries (Research for Development)
by Niccolò Aste Stefano Della Torre Cinzia Talamo Rajendra Singh Adhikari Corinna RossiThis open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize resource consumption and waste production. The topics covered include the development of sustainable housing models, energy and environmental issues in building design and technical systems, recycling for a sustainable future, models for humanitarian emergencies, and low-cost and web-based digital tools with applications in architecture and archaeology. The aim is to contribute to a necessary paradigm shift with respect to urban planning and usage of territories, moving from a linear urban metabolism based on the “take, make, dispose” approach to a circular metabolism. Such a change requires a focus on the relationship between the architectural, urban, and physical aspects of new developments, climate, and energy demand, as well as the identification and integration of strategies and infrastructures to achieve a high level of efficiency and self-sufficiency. The book will appeal to all with an interest in sustainable development in the African context.
Innovative Nachhaltigkeit in Einrichtungen der betrieblichen Altersversorgung: Best Practices für das Anlage- und Risikomanagement
by Henry Schäfer Ewald Stephan Frank VogelDas Buch bietet Einblicke in die Vielfalt der Umsetzungswege nachhaltiger Kapitalanlagen in Einrichtungen der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich. Während der erste Teil des Buches übergreifenden Themenbeiträgen zu nachhaltigen Kapitalanlagen gewidmet ist, möchte der zweite Teil Altersvorsorgeeinrichtungen dazu anregen, eigene Praktiken und Strategien zu nachhaltigen Kapitalanlagen zu reflektieren und zu bereichern. Für die verschiedenen Dienstleister im Bereich der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge liefern die Themenbeiträge wichtige Einblicke in die Praxis nachhaltiger Kapitalanlagen in einem für institutionelle Investoren stetig an Bedeutung wachsenden Segment.
Innovative Nachhaltigkeit oder Nachhaltige Innovation: Wechselwirkungen zwischen Digitalisierung, Technologien und nachhaltiger Unternehmenspraxis (Organisationskompetenz Zukunftsfähigkeit)
by Markus Bodemann Vanessa Just Annemarie Paul Jasmin WeberInnovation und Nachhaltigkeit – lediglich zwei Buzzwords oder eine Symbiose? Digitalisierung und die Nutzung neuer Technologien wie Künstliche Intelligenz bieten Chancen für innovative Geschäftsmodelle sowie neuartige Produkte und Dienstleistungen. Während neue technologiegetriebene Potentiale realisiert werden, stellt sich zunehmend die Frage nach der Nachhaltigkeit von Innovationen. Welche sozialen, ökologischen und wirtschaftlichen Implikationen bringen sie mit sich? Wie wirken Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit zusammen und gibt es ein gegenseitiges Treiben? Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Interdependenz von Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit in ihrer Vielfalt. Dabei werden Anwendungsszenarien und Implikationen aus verschiedenen Branchen und Industrien erläutert und unmittelbare und mittelbare Einflüsse von Innovation auf die Gesellschaft, Unternehmen und Politik diskutiert. Das Werk richtet sich an Entscheider in Unternehmen, Studierende, Dozierende und alle, die sich ein Bild über die vielfältigen Implikationen und Zusammenhänge von zukunftsweisenden Innovationen und Technologien und damit verbundene Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte machen wollen.
An Innovative Performance Measurement System & Sustainability: The Case of a Developing Country
by Habib Zaman KhanThis book assesses the architecture of performance measurement systems (PMS) in emerging countries, utilizing a mix of theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence, with Bangladesh as a case context. It examines the evolution and improvement of performance measurement over time with the introduction of new tools, such as multiple dimensional measures and the balanced scorecard (BSC). The book explores the historical and cultural roots of PMS within the context of developing countries and its latest developments in the context of sustainability practices and sustainable development. Additionally, this book provides empirical evidence from the banking sector in Bangladesh, highlighting the factors driving firms to adopt new PMS. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and policymakers interested in performance measurement systems in developing countries, offering a foundation for future research and policy initiatives.
Innovative Presentations For Dummies
by Barbara Boyd Ray AnthonyBe the speaker they follow with breakthrough innovative presentationsInnovative Presentations For Dummies is a practical guide to engaging your audience with superior, creative, and ultra-compelling presentations. Using clear language and a concise style, this book goes way beyond PowerPoint to enable you to reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations. Learn how to stimulate, capture, and hold your audience in the palm of your hand with sound, sight, and touch, and get up to speed on the latest presentation design methods that make you a speaker who gets audiences committed and acting upon your requests. This resource delves into desktop publishing skills, online presentations, analyzing your audience, and delivers fresh, new tips, tricks, and techniques that help you present with confidence and raw power.Focused and innovative presentations are an essential part of doing business, and most importantly, getting business. Competition, technology, and the ever-tightening economy have made out-presenting your competitors more important than ever. Globally, an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second. When it's your turn, you need to go high above and far beyond to stand out from the pack, and Innovative Presentations For Dummies provides a winning game plan. The book includes extensive advice on the visual aspect of presentations and, more importantly, it teaches you how to analyze your audience and speak directly to them. A personalized approach combined with stunning visuals and full sensory engagement makes for a winning presentation.Learn how to be an innovative, not just "effective" presenter in any situationUnderstand how to read and cater to specific audiencesCreate captivating visual materials using technology and propsCreative customize presentations to best communicate with audiencesMore and more employees are being called upon to make presentations, with or without prior training. With step-by-step instruction, vivid examples and ideas and a 360-degree approach to presentations, Innovative Presentations For Dummies will help to drastically improve your presentation outcomes as never before.
Innovative Priority Mechanisms in Service Operations: Theory and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Service Science)
by Shiliang Cui Zhongbin Wang Luyi YangThis book introduces the most advanced and recent theoretical research on innovative priority mechanisms in service settings. It covers cutting-edge topics on service innovations such as line-sitting, service-position-trading, referral priority programs, queue-scalping, distance-based priority, and dynamic priority policy. It also contains a variety of practical examples and applications which help managers to make better decisions and to develop a coherent business strategy.This book appeals to a wide readership, from academics and Ph.D. students who are interested in priority mechanisms, to service managers and researchers in the service industry.This is an open access book.
Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Select Proceedings of ICIPDIMS 2019 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Bbvl. Deepak Drk Parhi Pankaj C. JenaThis book gathers selected research articles from the International Conference on Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing System (ICIPDIMS 2019), held at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. The book discusses latest methods and advanced tools from different areas of design and manufacturing technology. The main topics covered include design methodologies, industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, and advances in robotics among others. The contents of this book are useful for academics as well as professionals working in industrial design, mechatronics, robotics, and automation.
Innovative Product Development by Additive Manufacturing 2021
by Roland Lachmayer Stefan Kaierle Behrend BodeThe book consists of a collection of papers from a corresponding conference regarding additive manufacturing. The yearly conference used to be held in German under the title: “Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung.” The topics are: • Design and optimization • Simulation, validation and quality assurance • Specifications, potentials and solutions
Innovative Product Development by Additive Manufacturing 2022
by Roland Lachmayer Behrend Bode Stefan KaierleThe book consists of a collection of papers from a corresponding conference regarding additive manufacturing. The yearly conference used to be held in German under the title "Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung" and is held in English since last year. The topics are Specifications, potentials, and solutions Contributions to specifications on components and processes and methods for assessing the suitability of components and the application of additive manufacturing and finding solutions for concepts and design Design and optimization Contributions to the development and design of components, their design to ensure functional requirements and manufacturability, and methods and tools for optimization components Simulation, validation, and quality assurance Contributions to approaches for the computer-aided and physical validation of components, the testing of components and material, and measures to ensure quality aspects Process chain and business modelsContributions to their integration of additive manufacturing processes into existing processes and measures to increase value creation and the creation of new business models.
Innovative Quality Improvements in Operations
by Tomas Backström Anders Fundin Peter E. JohanssonThis book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has been discussed in terms of continuous innovation. However, this ideal has proven to be difficult to achieve in practice, and there is a need for enhanced and more sophisticated theoretical models dealing with the complexity surrounding organizational conditions to foster incremental as well as radical change in production systems, and, at the same time to ensure stability over time. As a theoretical frame of reference, a perspective on change where conflicting demands and conflicting activities, e. g. , exploration and exploitation, are seen as intertwined and interdependent, is used throughout the book. The ideal from this perspective is to make use of such conflicting forces and to develop the change dynamics by keeping them in the same social system, not to structurally separate them in different departments or different initiatives. The main purpose of the book is to address an increased need for quality improvement through innovation and disruptive change in production. Traditional theories and managerial models of production systems are developed with a focus on stability and improvement. There is a need for enhanced models to reach an ability to develop new future production systems. The goal of the book is to provide nuances and new perspectives giving more realistic models of the production system to be able to increase the change potentiality of the organization and thus the long-term competiveness. Learning and organizational perspectives are in focus as enablers to increase the understanding of a production system as such. Long-term competitiveness through adaptability and the potential for radical improvement is of importance throughout the book. The use of dualities and the concept of ambidextrous organizations as a frame of understanding is the innovative strength for this area.
Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
by Tsan-Ming Choi T. C. ChengQuick Response (QR) policy is a market-driven business strategy in which supply chain members work together to react quickly to volatile market demand. Nowadays, with advances in information technologies (such as RFID and ERP systems), new challenges and opportunities arise for the application of QR. This handbook explores QR extensively with a view to discovering innovative QR measures that can help tackle the observed and emerging challenges. The book is organized into four parts, which include chapters on analytical modeling and analyses, information technologies, cases, reviews, and applications. This handbook provides new analytical and empirical results with valuable insights, which will not only help supply chain agents to better understand the latest applications of QR in business, but also help practitioners and researchers to know how to improve the effectiveness of QR using innovative methods.
Innovative Renewable Waste Conversion Technologies
by Gheorghe Lazaroiu Lucian MihaescuThis book investigates innovative solutions to increase the share of renewable engery in the global power mix, with a particular focus on improved and sustainable biomass conversion technologies. To this end, the book deals with an analysis of the generation mix of renewable energies (including biofuels, renewable waste and biogas) in the overall power balance of several countries. In addition, the possibilities of using bioenergy resources in the context of power generation are thoroughly analyzed. As one of the most important ways of converting biomass into energy, the combustion process is analyzed in detail, highlighting the vast potential for the use of innovative biofuels. In this context, a detailed classification of existing biofuels is established, reflecting the relationship between their energy properties and their potential use in industrial facilities. Additionally, the most efficient combustion technologies for the respective applications are discussed. Furthermore, the authors emphasize that the management of renewable waste, both from industry (tannery waste and oils from transport) and agriculture, requires an economic and environmental friendly approach. The challenges of burning various renewable waste fuels and upgrading industrial facilities are discussed, and the ideas and technologies presented in this book contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for "Affordable and Clean Energy". The book is a useful resource for professionals dealing with current and upcoming activities related to renewable energy combustion, and a good starting point for young researchers.
Innovative Research in Transportation Infrastructure: Proceedings of ICIIF 2018 (Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure)
by Dipankar Deb Valentina E. Balas Rajeeb Dey Jiten ShahThis book presents innovative research and its applications in the development of transportation infrastructure, and discusses the latest trends, challenges and unsolved problems in the field of transport technology. The book also presents a range of solutions to problems faced by the rapidly growing economies of the developing world. Core challenges confronting policymakers in the field of transport technology include traffic congestion, air pollution, traffic fatalities and injuries, and petroleum dependence. At the same time, the increased use of hybrid and electric vehicles is changing consumer needs and behaviors. The solutions discussed in this book will encourage and inspire researchers, industry professionals and policymakers alike to put these methods into practice.