Innovation Tournaments
eBook - ePub

Innovation Tournaments

Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Innovation Tournaments

Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities

About this book

Managers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a structured and process-driven approach this book demonstrates how to systematically identify exceptional opportunities for innovation.An innovation tournament, just like its counterpart in sports, starts with a large number of candidates, with opportunities as the players. These opportunities are pitted against each other until only the exceptional survive.This book provides a principled approach for the effective management of innovation tournaments - identifying a wealth of promising opportunities and then evaluating and filtering them intelligently for greatest profitability. With a set of practical tools for creating and identifying new opportunities, it guides the reader in evaluating and screening opportunities. The book demonstrates how to construct an innovation portfolio and how to align the innovation process with an organization's competitive strategy. Innovation Tournaments employs quirky, fresh examples ranging from movies to medical devices. The authors' tool kit is built on their extensive research, their entrepreneurial backgrounds, and their teaching and consulting work with many highly innovative organizations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Tournaments 101: A Primer for Innovators
  6. Chapter 2: In-House Sources: Generating Opportunities Internally
  7. Chapter 3: Outside Sources: Sensing Opportunities Externally
  8. Chapter 4: Elimination Round: Screening Opportunities
  9. Chapter 5: Strategic Fit: Pulling Opportunities from Strategy
  10. Chapter 6: Short-Term Profitability: Analyzing Near-Horizon Opportunities
  11. Chapter 7: Interdependence: Forming Opportunity Portfolios
  12. Chapter 8: Long-Term Profitability: Managing Far-Horizon Opportunities
  13. Chapter 9: Structure: Shaping the Innovation Funnel
  14. Chapter 10: Administration: Organizing and Governing Innovation
  15. Chapter 11: Tournaments 201: An Innovator’s Guide to Getting Started
  16. Appendix: More Tools and Our Web Site
  17. Notes
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. About the Authors