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Leadership for innovation how to organise team creativity and harvest ideas /

Provides help to leaders of all types to meet the challenge of innovation, and achieve profitable growth through team creativity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adair, John Eric, 1934-
Corporate Author: Gale Group.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2007.
Series:Gale virtual reference library
Subjects:
Creative ability in business > Case studies. > Management
Technological innovations > Case studies. > Management
Online Access:Available for Universiti Teknologi MARA via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access
Table of Contents:
  • What is innovation?
  • Invention and innovation
  • Case study: Google-the world's most powerful internet search engine
  • Innovation as incremental change
  • The management of change
  • Innovation is positive
  • All can participate
  • Key points
  • The conditions for successful innovation
  • Management commitment
  • Positive strategic thinking
  • A long-term perspective
  • Responsiveness to change
  • Acceptance of risk
  • The right internal environment
  • Key points
  • Organizing for team creativity
  • Order and freedom
  • Integrating creativity into industry
  • Getting the balance right
  • Leadership for innovation
  • Key points
  • Case study: the DNA laboratory
  • No class or hierarchical differences
  • Leading by example
  • The optimum use of resources
  • The human resource
  • Creeping bureaucracy
  • Bureaucracy versus innovation
  • Key points
  • Case study: Soichiro Honda - leader for innovation
  • The forge of a creative mind
  • A creative thinker in action
  • A partnership of complementary abilities
  • Not problems but opportunities
  • Passing on the torch
  • Key points
  • Real commitment from the top
  • The leader as teambuilder
  • Giving direction
  • Key points
  • How to motivate the creative individual
  • Selecting creative people
  • Characteristics of innovators
  • Expectations of creative people
  • Creative leadership
  • Key points
  • Team creativity
  • Building on ideas
  • Brainstorming
  • Team creativity in action
  • Team creativity and organization
  • How to criticize other people's ideas
  • Key points
  • Harvesting ideas
  • Suggestion schemes
  • Quality circles
  • Success factors for quality circles
  • Towards team creativity
  • The importance of training and education
  • Key points
  • Overcoming resistance to change
  • The human need for continuity and change
  • Understanding the forces of resistance
  • Principle one: plough up the ground
  • Principle two: market your ideas
  • Principle three: have a practice run
  • Principle four: make change incremental
  • Principal five; leadership is essential
  • Key points
  • Conclusion: Leadership for innovation
  • Key points.

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