Innovation matters - being able to create value from ideas is crucial to survival and growth. But while any organization might get lucky once being able to repeat the trick requires learning and developing particular ways of working which enable the process. Over a hundred years of research and...

Front Cover -- Riding the Innovation Wave -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Innovation - An Old Challenge -- The DNA of Innovation -- The 'One-Hundred Club' -- Three Key Elements -- Who Does the Innovating? -- Learning from History -- Introducing Hella --...

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be “productive”, but it is far less clear what this exactly means. In this book, we invite you on a...