1: Introduction to Co-Innovation Platforms -- 2: Platforms: What and How? -- 3: What is Co-Innovation? -- 4: Building Successful Co-Innovation Platforms -- 5: Remaining Frictionless: Intellectual Property -- 6: Bringing it all together.

The book has the objective to demystify the hyper-complex world of organization design and digital innovation. It shows how organization design as a management discipline can help organizations to better master digital innovation challenges. At the same time, it discusses how organization design...

Chapter 1. Editorial Introduction: Business Under Crisis—Avenues for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability -- Chapter 2. Business Under Crisis: Strategic Organizational Sustainability— A Contextual Transformation -- Chapter 3. Sustainability Assessment: A Tool to Build Resilience...

This book presents a guideline for turning any organisation into a more mindful one, allowing it to manage unexpected events and develop stronger resilience. The author conducted empirical research with a German IT company’s staff and its leadership in a longitudinal way. The whole team was...

1 Introduction -- 2 Acceptance of the Ford Production System by Japanese Manufacturing Industries -- 3 The Foundation of the Japanese Automobile Manufacturing Industry: Attempts to Adopt Ford’s Production System -- 4 Establishing Flow Production at Toyota: Collecting the Data on Shop Floors...

This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries....

Identification of barriers in the user innovation process -- Criteria for distinction of barriers and resource-based problems -- Analysis of moderating effects of innovators’ openness on product properties

The twin impact of globalization and digitization is deeply affecting how technology and innovation are managed in firms. This contributed volume analyzes the changing dynamics in the interplay of technology, business and society and the resultant implications for innovation management at firm...

Smart Grid, Future Innovation and Investment Opportunities by Dean Sharafi -- Quantum Technologies by Daniel Akenine -- Security in Intelligent Transportation Telematics by Erich Franke -- Innovation and Future Technology Scenarios in Health Care – Ideas and Studies by Philipp Plugmann --...

Introduction – An introduction to Workplace innovation and workplace innovation framework -- Part I: Theme 01 – Innovation in Contexts -- Chapter 1: Innovation in Developing Countries: The world’s poorest communities -- Chapter 2: Innovation in the Developed countries: Success (abundant...