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A compendium of tools and techniques that every innovator
needs
The Innovator's Toolkit is an essential companion for
every innovator, innovation team leader, operations manager, and
corporate change agent who needs to drive organic growth. Written
and presented in an easy-to-use reference format, the book helps
users understand why, when, and how to apply each technique for
maximum benefits and results. The fifty-plus tools and techniques
in this book are organized around a framework for identifying
innovation opportunities, generating new and unusual ideas,
selecting the best ideas for further refinement, and implementing
new solutions that better meet customer expectations.
This revised second edition includes significant updates to
nearly two dozen techniques
Also offers several brand new techniques, including Idea
Harvesting and Treatment, Seventy-six Standard Solutions, and Six
Thinking Hats
This updated and revised edition of The Innovator's
Toolkit simply helps innovation leaders, managers, and
specialists do their jobs better than ever before--giving them
more confidence, greatly reducing the chance of expensive failures,
and packing more practical innovation knowhow under one cover than
ever before.
Autorentext
DAVID SILVERSTEIN is founder/CEO of BMGI, an international firm specializing in innovation, performance improvement, and strategy. A highly regarded public speaker and executive coach, Silverstein has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Worth magazine, Investor's Business Daily, ComputerWorld, Chief Learning Officer, Chief Executive, Forbes.com, and BusinessWeek. DR. PHILIP SAMUEL is Chief Innovation Officer of BMGI. A frequent public speaker and thought leader in the field of strategy and innovation, he has become a trusted advisor for executives in a variety of industries. Dr. Samuel is also coauthor of Design for Lean Six Sigma: A Holistic Approach to Design and Innovation (Wiley). NEIL DECARLO is a veteran author, editor, and publishing coach whose work has ranged from Lean Six Sigma to corporate finance to strategypartnering with such firms as BMGI, McKinsey & Company, and many others. DeCarlo is also coauthor of the bestselling Six Sigma For Dummies (Wiley).
Zusammenfassung
A compendium of tools and techniques that every innovator needs The Innovator's Toolkit is an essential companion for every innovator, innovation team leader, operations manager, and corporate change agent who needs to drive organic growth. Written and presented in an easy-to-use reference format, the book helps users understand why, when, and how to apply each technique for maximum benefits and results. The fifty-plus tools and techniques in this book are organized around a framework for identifying innovation opportunities, generating new and unusual ideas, selecting the best ideas for further refinement, and implementing new solutions that better meet customer expectations.
Inhalt
DOWNLOADABLE EXHIBITS xiii
PREFACE xv
INTRODUCTION xvii
P A R T I Define the Opportunity 1
TECHNIQUE 1 Jobs to be Done 3
Highlight the human need you're trying to fulfill
TECHNIQUE 2 Job Mapping 13
Determine how customers are getting jobs done
TECHNIQUE 3 Outcome Expectations 20
Give customers more of what they desire
TECHNIQUE 4 Value Quotient 27
Identify opportunity gaps in the marketplace
TECHNIQUE 5 Ethnography 34
Observe your customers to uncover unarticulated needs
TECHNIQUE 6 Scenario Planning 41
Paint visions of possible change
TECHNIQUE 7 Heuristic Redefinition 49
Draw a picture of your system and its parts to focus ideation
TECHNIQUE 8 Nine Windows 57
Looking at your opportunity through nine different lenses
TECHNIQUE 9 Job Scoping 64
Broaden or narrow your innovation focus
TECHNIQUE 10 Stakeholder Management 68
Get key influencers involved and on your side
TECHNIQUE 11 Cognitive Style 74
Leverage the diversity of your exploiters and explorers
TECHNIQUE 12 Project Charter 82
Keep your innovation team focused and on track
TECHNIQUE 13 Innovation Financial Management 90
Constantly improve your assumption-to-knowledge ratio
P A R T II Discover the Ideas 99
TECHNIQUE 14 Resource Optimization 101
Make sure you use all available resources
TECHNIQUE 15 Functional Analysis 108
Scrutinize your system for innovation
TECHNIQUE 16 Trend Prediction 115
Learn from evolution's genetic code
TECHNIQUE 17 Creative Challenge 125
Sacrifice the sacred cows
TECHNIQUE 18 HIT Matrix 130
Compare existing solutions to spark new breakthroughs
TECHNIQUE 19 SCAMPER 133
Ask eight important questions
TECHNIQUE 20 Brainwriting 6-3-5 137
Encourage equal opportunity ideation
TECHNIQUE 21 Imaginary Brainstorming 140
Get silly for the sake of creativity
TECHNIQUE 22 Concept Tree 144
Leverage current ideas to generate many ideas
TECHNIQUE 23 Random Stimulus 147
Use an unrelated picture or word to spawn new ideas
TECHNIQUE 24 Provocation and Movement 153
Bust through the roadblocks in your thinking
TECHNIQUE 25 Forced Association 159
Hone in on solutions from other industries
TECHNIQUE 26 Structured Abstraction 164
Guide your innovation using 40 proven principles
TECHNIQUE 27 Separation Principles 173
Split your innovation problem in four ways
TECHNIQUE 28 Substance Field Analysis 179
Learn how substances interact with fields to form solutions
TECHNIQUE 29 Biomimicry 189
Seek nature's eons of experience to find answers
TECHNIQUE 30 KJ Method 195
Group and organize ideas by their natural affinities
TECHNIQUE 31 Idea Sorting and Refinement 199
Organize and shape ideas to improve their yield
TECHNIQUE 32 Six Thinking Modes 206
Evaluate your solution ideas in six different ways
P A R T III Develop the Designs 215
TECHNIQUE 33 Functional Requirements 217
Identify what customers want in your solution
TECHNIQUE 34 Axiomatic Design 223
Transform what customers want into the best products and services
TECHNIQUE 35 Function Structure 231
Identify how the solution functions in its whole and its parts
TECHNIQUE 36 Morphological Matrix 236
Generate solution concepts by combining design alternatives
TECHNIQUE 37 TILMAG 241
Pair ideal solution elements to create new design concepts
TECHNIQUE 38 Work Cell Design 245
Configure the workspace for flow and optimization
TECHNIQUE 39 Paired Comparison Analysis 253 Rank design concepts against each other in pai...