The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation

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Peter J. Denning (Distinguished Professor/Chair of Computer Science) Robert Dunham (Enterprise Performance)

The Innovator's Way

Essential Practices for Successful Innovation

Peter J. Denning (Distinguished Professor/Chair of Computer Science), Robert Dunham (Enterprise Performance)

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MIT Press
14 September 2012

Business innovation

Series: The MIT Press

Two experts show that innovation is a skill that can be learned and describe eight essential practices for achieving success.

Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only four percent for innovation initiatives. Can we significantly increase our odds of success? In The Innovator's Way, innovation experts Peter Denning and Robert Dunham reply with an emphatic yes. Innovation, they write, is not simply an invention, a policy, or a process to be managed. It is a personal skill that can be learned, developed through practice, and extended into organizations.

Denning and Dunham identify and describe eight personal practices that all successful innovators perform- sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining, executing, leading, and embodying. Together, these practices can boost a fledgling innovator to success. Weakness in any of these practices, they show, blocks innovation. Denning and Dunham chart the path to innovation mastery, from individual practices to teams and social networks.

By: Peter J. Denning (Distinguished Professor/Chair of Computer Science), Robert Dunham (Enterprise Performance)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9780262518123
ISBN 10: 0262518120
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 14 September 2012
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter J. Denning is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is the coauthor of The Innovator's Way- Essential Practices for Successful Innovation and Great Principles of Computing, both published by the MIT Press. Robert Dunham founded the Institute for Generative Leadership and the consulting company Enterprise Performance.

Reviews for The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation

This book will directly appeal to all those involved with inventions, innovations, and research and development-including those in computer and information science areas, as well as business leaders responsible for organizational renewal through innovations. -- C.S. Arora Computing Reviews