The Power of Strategy Innovation: A New Way of Linking Creativity and Strategic Planning to Discover Great Business Opportunities - Softcover

Johnston, Robert E.; BATE, J. Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814433650 ISBN 13: 9780814433652

Publisher: AMACOM, 2013

Synopsis

Based on the authors Robert Johnson and Douglas Bate’s thirty-two years of experience consulting to major organizations, The Power of Strategy Innovation contains tools and tricks to help companies excel in dynamic markets and provide groundbreaking products and services. You’ll learn how to apply innovative thinking to your company’s business model to bridge the gap between strategy and product development; how to remain flexible, future-oriented, and responsive to market changes and your clients’ changing needs; and how to create a perpetual flow of viable new business opportunities. The authors refer to this as “innovation” rather than “strategic planning,” but the truth is somewhere in-between: through a proven five-phase discovery process --for staging, aligning, exploring, creating, and mapping--strategic innovation will become a company-wide competency. The book’s latest edition, updated in 2013, includes a new preface and epilogue describing the emergence of enterprise innovation and its impact on both companies’ day-to-day planning and focuses on the future. Informative interviews with corporate leaders dispersed throughout the book provide further insight into different industries and the ways they have committed to taking a more innovative approach. To that end, through these shared methodologies, The Power of Strategy Innovation will forever transform the way you do business--and help you rise to become a leader in your industry.

About this title

Book Description:

Strategic planning sounds business-as-usual dull, while innovation conjures up images of corporate vision and risk-taking. The truth is, the two must be brought together for companies to excel in dynamic markets. The Power of Strategy Innovation presents a five-phase Discovery Process for staging, aligning, exploring, creating, and mapping the paths between analytical, numbers-oriented, day-to-day planning and market-centric, discovery-driven innovation that focuses on the future. This edition updated in 2013 to include a new Preface and Epilogue, describing the emergence of Enterprise Innovation.

About the Author:

Robert E. Johnston, Jr. (Sharon, MA) and J. Douglas Bate (North Andover, MA) are consultants specializing in innovation and growth. Clients have included IBM, Kraft Foods, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Nokia, Eli Lilly, and BMW.

Robert E. Johnston, Jr. (Sharon, MA) and J. Douglas Bate (North Andover, MA) are consultants specializing in innovation and growth. Clients have included IBM, Kraft Foods, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Nokia, Eli Lilly, and BMW.

About this edition

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0814433650
• ISBN 13: 9780814433652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332