Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company’s DNA

Title: Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company’s DNA
Author: Ben M. Bensaou, Karl Weber
ISBN: 1260462692 / 9781260462692
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 288
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2021
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A Thinkers50 Best New Management Book for 2022

Launch your company to the top of its industry by driving and leveraging continuous innovation throughout your organization

It’s no secret that continuous innovation is the key to seizing and maintaining the competitive edge in today’s increasingly challenging business environment. Unfortunately, the process for achieving this holy grail of business has been a mystery—until now.

Built to Innovate delivers a proven system for building relentless innovation into your company’s DNA. Professor and former Dean of Executive Education at INSEAD and business innovation thought leader Ben M. Bensaou explores the essential practices of many of the world’s most innovative organizations?including BASF, AkzoNobel, Sabanci Group, Recruit Holdings, Ecocem, Starwood Hotels, Domino’s Pizza, Bayer, Marvel Studios, Allianz, and Fiskars?and demonstrates how you can leverage them in your own company. This practical guide shows how to:

  • Build your execution and innovating engines
  • Master the innovating perspective
  • Launch the three processes of innovating
  • Engage everyone in innovating
  • Generate ideas from the front lines
  • Empower coaches
  • Create a culture of innovating
  • Catalyze the innovating process
  • Keep the ideas flowing
You’ll learn how to drive innovating in product design and creative use of technology?as well as business activities, such as business model redesign, customer service, distribution, finance, talent development, and sales.

The big question on the mind of every business leader today is: What can I do to create extra value for my company and the customers we serve? Built to Innovate provides everything you need to transform your organization into an innovating engine that continually produces new products and processes to generate enormous new value for you and for the customers you serve.

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Part One : The Innovating Habit
Chapter 1 : The Innovating Habit Jump-Starting The Practice Of Creativity
Chapter 2 : Execution And Innovating Twin Engines Powered By Everyone In The Organization
Chapter 3 : The Innovating Perspective The Supplier-Side View Versus The Customer-Side View

Part Two : The Three Key Processes Of Innovating
Chapter 4 : The Three Processes Of Innovating Creation, Integration, Reframing
Chapter 5 : Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere Innovation Is Everyone’s Business

Part Three : The Three Key Roles In Innovating
Chapter 6 : Hands-On Creativity How To Inspire And Empower Your Company’s Frontline Innovators
Chapter 7 : Coaching Innovation How Midlevel Managers Nurture The Systems That Make Innovating Possible
Chapter 8 : Setting The Agenda How Senior Leaders Can Focus An Entire Organization On Innovating

Part Four : The Infrastructure For Innovating Governance And Coordination
Chapter 9 : Igniting The Engine Creating A Governance And Coordination Structure For The Innovating Engine
Chapter 10 : Priming The Pump A Seven-Step Process For Creating Innovative Ideas
Chapter 11 : Keeping The Engine Humming Nurturing The Habit Of Innovating