| Description |
352 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I. Define the Opportunity. -- Techniques and Tools For Identifying High-Potential Innovation Projects. -- TECHNIQUE 1. Jobs To Be Done. -- Determine the human need you're trying to fulfill. -- TECHNIQUE 2. Outcome Expectations. -- Give customers more of what they desire. -- TECHNIQUE 3. Value Quotient. -- Identify opportunity gaps in the marketplace. -- TECHNIQUE 4. Ethnography. -- Observe your customers to uncover unarticulated needs. -- Techniques and Tools for Scoping and Focusing Innovation Projects. -- TECHNIQUE 5. Heuristic Redefinition. -- Draw a picture of your system and its parts to focus ideation. -- TECHNIQUE 6. Nine Windows. -- Looking at your opportunity through nine different lenses. -- TECHNIQUE 7. Job Scoping. -- Broaden or narrow your innovation focus. -- Techniques and Tools for Effectively Managing People, Projects, and Innovation ROI. -- TECHNIQUE 8. Stakeholder Management. -- Get key influencers involved and on your side. -- TECHNIQUE 9. Cognitive Style. -- Leverage the diversity of your exploiters and explorers. -- TECHNIQUE 10. Project Charter. -- Keep your innovation team focused and on track. -- TECHNIQUE 11. Innovation Financial Management. -- Constantly improve your assumption-to-knowledge ratio. -- Part II. Discover the Ideas. -- Techniques and Tools for Re ning Innovation Opportunities. -- TECHNIQUE 12. Resource Optimization. -- Make sure you use all available resources. -- TECHNIQUE 13. Functional Analysis. -- Scrutinize your system for innovation. -- TECHNIQUE 14. Trend Prediction. -- Learn from evolution's genetic code. -- TECHNIQUE 15. Creative Challenge. -- Sacrifice the sacred cows. -- Techniques and Tools for Leveraging Brainpower and Turbo-Charging Creativity. -- TECHNIQUE 16. HIT Matrix. -- Compare existing solutions to spark new breakthroughs. -- TECHNIQUE 17. Scamper. -- Ask eight important questions. -- TECHNIQUE 18. Brainwriting 6-3-5. -- Encourage equal opportunity ideation. -- TECHNIQUE 19. Imaginary Brainstorming. -- Get silly for the sake of creativity. -- TECHNIQUE 20. Concept Tree. -- Leverage current ideas to generate many ideas. -- TECHNIQUE 21. Random Stimulus. -- Use an unrelated picture or word to spawn new ideas. -- TECHNIQUE 22. Provocation and Movement. -- Step over the roadblocks in your thinking. -- Techniques and Tools for Exloring All Human Knowledge and Nature. -- TECHNIQUE 23. Structured Abstraction. -- Guide your innovation using 40 proven principles. -- TECHNIQUE 24. Separation Principles. -- Split your innovation problem in four ways. -- TECHNIQUE 25. 76 Standard Solutions. -- Learn how substances interact with fields to form solutions. -- TECHNIQUE 26 Biomimicry. -- Seek nature's eons of experience to find answers. -- Techniques and Tools for Selecting the Best Ideas for Further Development and Design. -- TECHNIQUE 27. KJ Method. -- Group and organize ideas by their natural affinities. -- TECHNIQUE 28. Idea Harvesting and Treatment. -- Organize and shape ideas to improve their yield. -- TECHNIQUE 29. Six Thinking Hats. -- Evaluate your solution ideas in six different ways. -- Part III. Develop the Solution. -- Techniques and Tools for Formulating an Initial Design. -- TECHNIQUE 30. Performance and Perception Expectations. -- Identify what customers want in your solution. -- TECHNIQUE 31. Axiomatic Design. -- Transform what customers want into the best products and services. -- TECHNIQUE 32. Function Structure. -- Identify how the solution functions in its whole and its parts. -- TECHNIQUE 33. Morphological Matrix. -- Generate solution concepts by combining design alternatives. -- Technique 34. Tilmag. -- Pair ideal solution elements to create new design concepts. -- Techniques and Tools for Selecting the Very Best Design to Pursue. -- TECHNIQUE 35. Paired Comparison Analysis. -- Rank design concepts against each other in pairs. -- TECHNIQUE 36. Pugh Matrix. -- Evaluate all your design concepts to create the invincible solution. -- Techniques and Tools for Optimizing and Finalizing Designs. -- TECHNIQUE 37. Process Capability. -- Predict the performance of your new solution. -- TECHNIQUE 38. Robust Design 223 -- Make your design insensitive to uncontrollable influences. -- TECHNIQUE 39 Design Scorecards. -- Develop a dashboard to track your design and its underlying processes. -- TECHNIQUE 40. Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. -- Anticipate what can go wrong with your solution before it does. -- TECHNIQUE 41. Discrete Event Simulation. -- Visualize and test your innovation through computer modeling. -- TECHNIQUE 42. Rapid Prototyping. -- Make a fast 3D model of your solution to explore its viability. -- Part IV. Demonstrate the Innovation. -- Techniques and Tools for Evaluating How New Products/Services Perform Prior to Their Release. -- TECHNIQUE 43. Prototyping. -- Build a fully functioning model of your new product to test and perfect it. -- TECHNIQUE 44. Piloting. -- Build a fully functioning model of your new service to test and perfect it. -- Techniques and Tools for Mapping New Product and Service Delivery Processes. -- TECHNIQUE 45. SIPOC Map. -- Identify the key inputs and outputs of your processes. -- TECHNIQUE 46. Process Map/Value Stream Map. -- Flesh out the details of your process. -- Techniques and Tools for Making Sure Processes Are Optimized for Efficient and Flawless Operations. -- TECHNIQUE 47. Measurement Systems Analysis. -- Make sure you know your measurements are valid. -- TECHNIQUE 48. Work Cell Design. -- Configure the workspace for flow and optimization. -- TECHNIQUE 49. Mistake Proofing. -- Install measures to prevent human and system error. -- TECHNIQUE 50. Design of Experiments. -- Analyze input and output variables to identify the critical few. -- TECHNIQUE 51. Conjoint Analysis. -- Compare solution attributes to cull out customer preferences. -- Techniques and Tools for Problem Diagnosis and Improvement Prior to Commercialization. -- TECHNIQUE 52. Process Behavior Charts. -- Monitor process performance to keep the new solution in control. -- TECHNIQUE 53. Cause & Effect Diagram. -- Investigate the root causes of performance problems. -- TECHNIQUE 54. Cause & Effect Matrix. -- Identify the key input-output relationships in need of attention. -- TECHNIQUE 55. Control Plan. -- Ensure that your new solution becomes commercialized as planned. -- Index |
| Summary |
The Innovator's Toolkit explains all the fundamental tools and concepts anyone involved in innovation should be familiar with--especially methods and strategies for improving products and services and developing new ones. This book is written in an easy-to-use reference format that helps readers understand why, when, and how to apply each tool. The tools and techniques in this book are organized around a four-step innovation methodology--define, discover, develop, and demonstrate--that takes readers through problem identification, then flows into idea generation, idea selection, and, finally, idea implementation. Constant innovation is a necessity for business success today; The Innovator's Toolkit presents an effective plan for achieving it |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Corporations -- Growth.
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New products.
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Technological innovations -- Management.
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| Author |
DeCarlo, Neil.
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Samuel, Philip.
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| LC no. |
2008039518 |
| ISBN |
9780470345351 |
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