The Framework for Innovation : A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Prologue: Innovation Master Plan Framework -- 1: Preparing Your Organization for Innovation -- Introduction -- On the Intake of Ideas -- Getting Organized for Innovation -- Flexibility and Ability -- Got an Idea? -- Equal Consideration -- Internal Venture Capital -- Incentives -- Summary -- 2: Promoting and Communicating -- Introduction -- Summary -- 3: Personal Creativity for Entrepreneurs -- Drucker on Creativity and the Entrepreneur -- Introduction -- Boosting Your Creativity Ability -- Overview -- Tool #1: The Quickscore Creativity Test -- Finding Opportunities and Problems to Solve Requires New Thinking -- Tool #2: Kano Analysis -- Tool #3: Nominal Group Technique -- Tool #4: Synectics -- Tool #5: Operational Creativity -- Tool #6: New Ideas with Storyboarding -- Tool #7: Absence Thinking -- Tool Summary -- Opportunity Exploration (Insight) -- Tool #8: Breakdown (Drilldown) Tree Diagram -- Tool #9: Lotus Blossom -- Tool #10: Force Field Analysis Diagram -- Summary -- 4: Corporate Creativity and Innovation -- Introduction -- Ekvall Builds on Drucker -- A Look at Some Organizational Creativity Models -- Six Vital Fundamentals of Corporate Business Creativity -- Analysis by Kano Examination -- Organizational Visual Identity -- Organizational Synectics -- Brainstorming -- Six Thinking Hats -- Attribute Listing -- TRIZ -- Summary -- 5: Innovation Theory for Entrepreneurs -- Introduction -- Innovation Theory Key Points -- What the Research Shows -- About Problem Analysis -- Innovation isn't a Choice -- Requirements for a Scientific Theory of Innovation -- Your Business is Being Disrupted Right Now -- The General Theory of Innovation -- Theory of Four Zones of Innovation -- You Have Strategies to be Innovative, Even if You Aren't.