Strategic Management of Innovation and Design

ISBN-13: 9780521768771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 488 str.

Pascal Le Masson; Benoit Weil; Armand Hatchuel

Opis

An exciting new textbook that explains principles and techniques that firms can use to ensure continuous and successful innovation.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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.