Strategic Management of Innovation and Design
- Authors:
- Pascal Le Masson, Mines ParisTech
- Benoît Weil, Mines ParisTech
- Armand Hatchuel, Mines ParisTech
- Date Published: September 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521182430
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There is now widespread agreement that innovation holds the key to future economic and social prosperity in developed countries. Experts studying contemporary capitalism also agree that the battle against unemployment and relocations can only be won through innovation. But what kind of innovation is required and what is the best way to manage, steer and organize it? Grounded on experiences of innovative firms and based on recent design theories, this book argues that instead of relying on traditional R&D and project management techniques, the strategic management of innovation must be based on innovative design activities. It analyses and explains new management principles and techniques that deal with these activities, including innovation fields, lineages, C-K (Concept-Knowledge) diagrams and design spaces. The book is ideal for advanced courses in innovation management in industrial design schools, business schools, engineering schools, as well as managers looking to improve their practice.
Read more- Establishes new framework for continuous innovation in the firm
- Original and extended case studies, closely linked to the development of theory
- Comprehensive literature review, highlighting contributions and limitations of past approaches
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'This timely study proposes an important new perspective on strategic management grounded in both empirical work and in the theory of design. It integrates research on knowledge and creative thinking to develop a radically different approach to the current challenges facing both managers and management researchers.' Ken Starkey, Nottingham University Business School
See more reviews'This book, which has been well translated from the original French would make an excellent text for a graduate level course in innovation management or for practitioners seeking new ideas and inspiration and is recommended reading for all with an interest in design research and practice.' Dorian Marjanovic, The Design Society Newsletter
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- Date Published: September 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521182430
- length: 488 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.77kg
- contains: 57 b/w illus. 19 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of cases
Preface 1 Paul Rivier
Preface 2 Marc Maurer
Introduction: from R&D to RID
Part I. From Innovation to Innovative Design:
1. What do we know about innovation? Testing the economic and social sciences
2. Management sciences and innovation: identity of objects and innovation capability
3. The design activity and innovation capability
Part II. Design Capacities in Innovative Firms:
4. Highly innovative firms: Tefal 1974–97 - the Wizards of Rumilly
5. A model of the innovative firm: design strategy, metabolism and growth regime
6. Grafting the Tefal model: astonishing performance from an innovative start-up
Part III. Rebuilding Innovation Capabilities:
7. Large firms and intensive innovation: the recurring R&D crises
8. From R&D to RID: missions and organizations of innovative design
9. Learning from experience: expansions from the innovative windscreen at Saint-Gobain Sekurit
Part IV. Innovative Design: Tools and Organizations:
10. The methodologies of innovative design: C-K theory, innovation fields and design spaces
11. Type 1 innovation fields: design in the search for new values - the innovative forms of user-involvement
12. Type 2 innovation fields: design by drastic technological change and by regenerating functions
13. Type 3 innovation fields: combining scientific research and conceptual innovation
14. The inevitable return to rule-based design
15. Innovative design, platforms and open innovation: the management of exploratory partnerships
Conclusion: the governance of innovative design, a third era of modern management?
Bibliographical appendix. Innovation viewed by the different disciplines: an extended survey
Postface Jacques Lacambre and Dominique Levent
Innovative design glossary
Bibliography
Index.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Introduction to Technology, Policy, and Innovation
- Management of Technology and Innovation
- Marketing with Social Media
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