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Innovation Management Resource Center

Innovation management is focused on the systematic processes that organizations use to develop new and improved products, services and business processes. It involves harnessing the creative ideas of an organization's employees and utilizing it to bring a steady pipeline of profitable new innovations to the marketplace, quickly and efficiently.

This innovation management resource center contains a valuable collection of the best articles, websites, books and other resources on this important topic.

If you're looking for something in particular and you don't see it here, please send us a message and tell us what you're trying to find. We'll do our best to uncover it for you!

   

INNOVATION MANAGEMENT ARTICLES


What Innovation Is: How Companies Develop Operating Systems for Innovation
Howard Smith, CTO of Computer Sciences Corporation's European Group, and author of the book, Business Process Management: The Third Wave, gives his view of the direction in which innovation is developing, and the significance of modern TRIZ in that future.

7 strategies for sustained innovation
Sustained innovation comes from developing a collective sense of purpose; from unleashing the creativity of people throughout your organization and from teaching them how to recognize unconventional opportunities. Here are seven strategies for sustaining innovation in your organization.

Sparking growth systematically: How to turn innovation into a discipline
With top-line growth opportunities ever harder to find and sustain, companies can no longer get by with a partial or episodic commitment to innovation.

Innovation: Creating the best practices of tomorrow
How to harness the creative power of your greatest asset, your people. The goal is to turn them into opportunistic entrepreneurs who are constantly looking for new ways of doing business.

   

rECOMMENDED RESOURCES


International Journal of Innovation Management
A quarterly publication dedicated to the advancement of academic research and management practice in the field of innovation management.

International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM)
ISPIM's main goals are the development of know-how on Innovation Management, and the creation, implementation and diffusion of effective related skills and techniques for the mutual benefit of ISPIM Members and for the enhancement of the economic systems and quality of life in the member Countries.

Innovation Management Overview
This website contains one of the clearest descriptions of what innovation management is, why it is important today, and what is required to implement it.

Center for Research in Innovation Management - Univ. of Brighton
CENTRIM is a research-based school at the University of Brighton currently celebrating fifteen years of research in technology and innovation management.

   
   

 

 
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor
Creativity Inc.: Building an Inventive Organization
by Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman
Driving Growth Through Innovation
by Robert B. Tucker
 
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