Argues that most business projects fail because their success depends on unanticipated external innovations while revealing the logic of "innovation ecosystems" that can be established to dramatically improve odds of success

Collection of Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from the 2014 WGP Congress, , September 9-10, 2014, Erlangen, Germany. the 76 Papers are Grouped as Follows: Keynotes, Chapter 1: Assembly, Chapter 2: Cutting and Grinding, Chapter 3: Forming, Chapter 4: Machines, Chapter 5: Organisation