Navigating Innovation The Manager's Guide to the Innovation Literature
Chapters
- Introduction: Make sense of innovation
- Challenge 1: Build a shared strategic vision of innovation
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Challenge 2: Manage entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Encourage people to innovate: corporate entrepreneurs
- Build and lead effective innovation teams: balancing acts
- Build and manage innovation-ready organizations: how some elephants can dance
- Develop innovative networks and collaborations: never walk alone
- Create innovation ecosystems: lands of opportunities
- Challenge 3: Identify attractive innovation opportunities
- Challenge 4: Develop a balanced portfolio of business models
- Challenge 5: Nimble execution – fail fast and win big
- Conclusion: More brain, less storming
- Appendix: Methodology
The Author
Benoît Gailly
Professor Gailly has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), a European Master’s Degree in Society, Science and Technology from Roskilde University, and an MBA from INSEAD.
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The Book

Navigating Innovation
Every firm must maintain an entrepreneurial ecosystem and a coherent innovation strategy in order to stay ahead of the competition. For managers this means being able to build a vision of what innovation looks like in the context of their organization, fostering entrepreneurial behaviour, spotting opportunities and making the right decisions. Based on years of practical experience and unique insight, this handy guide identifies fundamental challenges and is rooted in concrete examples.
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