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	Insourcing Innovation: How to Transform Business as Usual into Business as Exceptional by David Silverstein, Neil DeCarlo, Michael Slocum
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Product Details Binding Paperback EAN 9780976901006 ISBN 0976901005 Manufacturer Breakthrough Performance Press Number Of Pages 175 Publication Date September 09, 2005 Publisher Breakthrough Performance Press Release Date September 09, 2005 Availability Usually ships in 1-2 business days Product Description Most people and organizations struggle to come up with the next big idea is because they lack the ability to get outside their own box of thinking and practice. How do you get from what you don't know to what you know? That is the innovator's question. TRIZ defines the structured pathway for getting from what you know to what you don't know at the deepest levels of scientific inquiry and development. Using TRIZ, many companies have expedited the typically cumbersome and expensive R&D process. They've used TRIZ to streamline the process of innovation in the same way they might use Six Sigma to streamline the process of quality improvement. 'At the Sterno Group, our passion has always been building a smarter product, and that's why we take innovation so seriously and personally. That's also why we use TRIZ - because it enables us to constantly build on heritage of innovation.' Walter Adams, President, The Sterno Group 'Michael Slocum’s extensive knowledge and expertise helped Exempla Healthcare implement an innovative new framework to perform strategic thinking and planning at a level none of us had ever experienced before. His work with our leadership team was extremely valuable, and has positioned Exempla to achieve breakthrough results in patient safety and clinical quality.' Les Hirsch, President and CEO Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital 'This book itself is a form of innovation – a veritable cache of research liberated as a systematic approach. If you want to rapidly advance the competitive agenda of your firm, jump into these pages and let the authors show you how to drive innovation into your organization.' Charles L. Fred, Author, Breakaway, Deliver Value to Your Customers –Fast! 'Systematic Innovation is tremendously powerful. It yields a breadth of potential solutions to challenges we face as we advance our heart-sustaining technologies. Because of the way we generate innovative solutions with TRIZ, we are deploying systematic innovation throughout the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division of St. Jude Medical.' Jonathan Losk, Associate General Counsel and Director of Strategic Innovation, St. Jude Medical Insourcing Innovation -- Preface We wrote this book because most business leaders are dissatisfied with the ability of their companies to innovate. Companies consistently pour money into R&D, yet inconsistently achieve their innovation objectives. In fact, no other aspect of business is as frustrating and out of control as innovation. At the same time, innovation is core and central to business success. This is the paradox we address in Insourcing Innovation: so much touting of the need for breakthrough, yet so little knowledge about how it happens. The paradox exists because most people who are responsible for innovation are simply too smart for their own good. With all their experience, they still struggle to generate high quality, high density, and high velocity breakthroughs. TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, is a necessary supplement to the power of your company’s best minds. It doesn’t replace the need for smart people, just as a method like Six Sigma doesn’t replace that need. But like Six Sigma, TRIZ comes into play as a structured system for accomplishing objectives the best people can’t accomplish — no matter how many you have in your company or how smart they are. Thought leaders, CEOs, consultants, and scientists alike are calling for innovation that’s more measurable, reliable, predictable, streamlined, and effective — in essence, better and faster. The answers to the call range from appointing an innovation leader to establishing a better innovation process. Some have called for a better alignment of all innovation success factors: people, process, leadership, creativity, culture, investment. Others have suggested various programs to follow, most, if not all, of which consist of a certain set of principles and guidelines. As innovation experts, we have our own such set, and you discover more about it in this book. But mostly what you get in this book is a hardened methodology for making innovation more manageable, controllable, and profitable. For every dollar you spend on innovation, you want a dollar back, and a whole lot more. You want to safeguard and optimize your investment in innovation, and the best way to do this is to make it as turnkey as possible. Our book discusses why most of the so-called 'methods' are really just guided brainstorming sessions that don’t get inventors out of their own mental boxes, even though they claim to do so. This is why most current methods fail. They’re grounded in psychological inertia and divergent thinking. The TRIZ methodology asserts that every innovation objective has a finite set of possible solutions, given constraints. The way to discover these solutions is to converge on them quickly and reliably through a universal pathway everyone can learn and understand. Why not teach your brightest and best how to travel this pathway, and why not have them teach it to others? This is the central theme of our book: The way to increase your company’s innovation value proposition is to take control of it yourself, not to outsource it. Although there are potential benefits to outsourcing innovation for some companies under the best circumstances, we don’t accept this view as viable in the long-term picture of business. Innovation, like quality improvement, is a skill you want as many people as possible to master. Lest we be cavalier, this is not a new idea. Innovation expert Gary Hamel has said that there are tools, processes, and systems for driving innovation that almost anyone can learn. Hamel has called for a 'mobilization and monetization of the imagination of every employee' in the style of how Toyota realized a positive ROI by investing in the problem-solving skills of every employee. Basically, innovation isn’t and shouldn’t be a sometimes thing, driven by the bright few and held back by the average many. Rather, innovation should be an all-the-time thing driven by trained people in every part of the organization. With such collective momentum, an organization breaks the stronghold of its own inertia and creates a true force of continuous evolution. Specifically, Insourcing Innovation is organized into the following four parts: • Part One provides a simple framework for thinking about business excellence, a historical viewpoint of management thinking and practice, a rationale for implementing structured innovation, and the case for why TRIZ is a world-class method for achieving perpetual innovation with existing resources. • Part Two covers the tactical aspects of TRIZ, with a central focus on the TRIZ methodology (DMASI) and its primary constructs, techniques, and components. Part Two also provides several implementation case examples, including an in-depth breakdown of how TRIZ was used to create an innovative self-heating beverage container. • Part Three transitions from the tactical to the strategic aspects of structured innovation (TRIZ), which show you that no single innovation can stand alone. All tap into one or more of eight evolutionary forces to become what they are. Part Three describes these forces along with related anecdotes and examples. • Part Four discusses how structured innovation is part of the larger system of 'total performance excellence.' It shows how other key aspects of business excellence enable structured innovation, and at the same time are enabled by structured innovation. Part Four looks at these aspects and shows how they’re related. Clearly, it’s time to shine more light on the path of innovation — to define it and call it out, unequivocally, like the Yellow Brick Road. Perhaps business leaders have enough innovation hindsight and need more innovation foresight. Maybe it’s time to make structured innovation a core competency and quit the habit of noticing how much sense innovation makes . . . after it happens. Customers who bought this item also bought Innovation on Demand: New Product Development Using TRIZ And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving Insourcing Innovation: How to Achieve Competitive Excellence Using TRIZ Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It Innovation Algorithm:TRIZ, systematic innovation and technical creativity Customer Reviews for: Insourcing Innovation: How to Transform Business as Usual into Business as Exceptional Rating - Growth Through Innovation Strategy If your business goals include increasing the returns on your innovation investments, I would strongly recommend this book. Insourcing Innovation provides a clear overview of the business issues involved in a growth through innovation strategy. After the business issues of innovation are discussed, the tactical and strategic aspects of the highly effective TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) structured innovation methodology ... Read More Rating - A taste of things to come This book does an excellent job of presenting a vision for a Grand Unification Theory of business excellence. Just as theoretical physicists seek the one theory that explains the underlying workings of everything in the universe, this book uses TRIZ, the theory of inventive problem solving, as the link that brings innovation theory together with speed, quality, and cost. The vision presented by the authors is compelling. The book blends ... Read More Rating - Insourcing Innovation will give you traction Insourcing Innovation puts things in perspective. It is a great book to help business people understand the importance of Structured Innovation. Once they understand the Structured Productivity and Structured Quality movements, the Structured Innovation movement will be clear to them. I have already converted several managers with the book. You can't teach TRIZ with a book, and that's not the goal of the book. Having said that, I will be using ... Read More Rating - The TRIZ book that you should give your boss "Insourcing Innovation" is the answer to the perennial question "Which one TRIZ book should I show my boss?" It is short, with a very clear emphasis on the business issues of innovation-driven strategy. It is comprehensive, so that the newcomer to TRIZ can learn the real how-to of the basic skills of TRIZ and the philosophical basis of TRIZ so that she/he can learn advanced TRIZ with no further preparation. The TRIZ community has been talking ... 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