Purpose – Inter‐organizational innovation networks provide opportunities to exploit complementary resources that reside beyond the boundary of the firm. The shifting locus of innovation and value creation away from the “sole firm as innovator” poses important questions about the nature...

In developing CI capability, organisations need to move to a level of development in which strategic goals are communicated and deployed and where improvement activity is guided by a process of monitoring and measurement against these strategic objectives. Policy deployment of this kind is more...

Successful use of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) depends on a company adopting a flexible approach to its management and organisation. This technology has now begun to diffuse widely and to be used in all major developed countries and a small number of developing nations. A comprehensive...

The ability of a company to innovate and to launch innovation is a critical competitive edge to remain competitive in the 21st century. Large organizations therefore increasingly recognize employees as a significant factor and critical source of innovation. Several studies assert the fact that...

Feedback from a disinterested observer can be a powerful stimulus for change. In our everyday lives the new mirror in the bathroom can act as the disinterested observer reminding us of progress (or lack of progress) in the fight against middle‐aged flab. Similarly there are few more salutory...

Creativity -- Exploring problems -- Creating and sharing visions -- Practising psychological safety -- Supporting ideas -- Pushing the frontiers -- Creating the context -- User innovation -- High involvement innovation -- Design thinking -- Creativity under extreme constraints -- Agile...

Contents: 1. Responsible innovation in digital health / Tatiana Iakovleva, Elin M. Oftedal and John Bessant -- 2. Responsible innovation as a catalyst of the firm innovation process / Tatiana Iakovleva, Elin M. Oftedal and John Bessant -- 3. Challenges in healthcare - the changing role of...