The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge

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In this book, the authors argue that the most successful everyday innovators break down the process into six manageable steps: 1. Divide the labor; 2. Assemble the dedicated team; 3. Manage the partnership; 4. Formalize the experiment; 5. Break down the hypothesis; 6. Seek the truth. The Other Side of Innovation codifies this staged approach in a variety of contexts. It delivers a proven step-by-step guide to executing (launching, managing, and measuring) more modest but necessary innovations within large firms without disrupting their bread-and-butter business.

Vijay "VG" Govindarajan(www.vg-tuck.com) is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is the 2008 Professor-in-Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant for General Electric and a leading expert on strategy and innovation. Chris Trimble is a frequent speaker and a Senior Fellow at Katzenbach Partners LLC (New York), a consulting firm that helps companies reach their strategic intent by offering a combination of analytic problem solving and insight into people and organization. He holds an MBA degree with distinction from the Tuck School, and a bachelor of science degree with highest distinction from the University of Virginia.

"The Other Side of Innovation is packed with clear recommendations about how to put its findings into practice..." - Research Technology Management "How do companies generate new ideas? And how do they turn those ideas into products? Hardly a week passes without someone publishing a book on the subject. Most are rubbish. But The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge is rather good ... In their new book [the authors] address two subjects that are usually given short shrift: established companies rather than start-ups and the implementation of new ideas rather than their generation." -- The Economist "...a veritable how-to guide for CEOs and entrepreneurs." -- Inc. Magazine "Excellent in-depth case studies..." "well-written book" "Summing Up: Recommended" - CHOICE Magazine