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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796524003321

Autore

Bessant J. R.

Titolo

Riding the innovation wave : learning to create value from ideas / / John Bessant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-78714-979-X

1-78714-569-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Disciplina

658.4063

Soggetti

Success in business

Creative ability in business

Strategic planning

Organizational change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Innovation matters  -  being able to create value from ideas is crucial to survival and growth.  But while any organization might get lucky once being able to repeat the trick requires learning and developing particular ways of working which enable the process.  Over a hundred years of research and practical experience now provides a knowledge base from which we can draw to help develop such approaches. But how do we move from prescription to implementation?  And how does the innovation challenge play out over the lifetime of an organization?  How does it renew its capability to innovate and do so against a background of dramatically changing markets, technologies and social trends? This book draws on a detailed history of a large German company (HELLA ), now active in over 35  countries, employing 34,000 people.  It didn't start out that way, it began as an entrepreneurial start-up in the late 19th century in the (then) uncertain early days of the car industry.  It moved from selling whips and other buggy accessories for horse-drawn carriages to horns and lamps for the new-fangled motor cars beginning to appear on the roads of north-western



Germany.  The journey since then has been one of innovation  -  in products and processes, in entering new markets, in adding services to its products, and in changing its underlying business models.  Survival for over a hundred years is not an accident  -  it has been built on learning how to innovate and on constantly challenging and updating those models.