Driving desired futures : turning design thinking into real innovation /

Driving Desired Futures addresses the question how do individuals in social systems achieve credibility for new ideas? What are the criteria that render the comprehension of new ideas more likely within a group of people with diverse sets of beliefs? What triggers management s attention to allocate...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Shamiyeh, Michael
Published: Birkhauser,
Publisher Address: Basel/Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783038212843
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Summary: Driving Desired Futures addresses the question how do individuals in social systems achieve credibility for new ideas? What are the criteria that render the comprehension of new ideas more likely within a group of people with diverse sets of beliefs? What triggers management s attention to allocate resources to the development of new ideas? To address these questions, various authors discuss the structures and dynamics of developing new ideas.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(424pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9783038212843
Index Number: NA500
CLC: TU-09
Contents: Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Foreword /
Contributors --
Introduction /
Disruptive Innovation at the Eastman Kodak Company (Part I) /
Reality and Actuality /
The Social Construction of Reality /
A Model of Plausibility /
Media The Everyday Tools of Reality Construction /
Plans and the Future: Designing the Unpredictable /
Disruptive Innovation at the Eastman Kodak Company (Part II) /
A Few Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Communication /
What is Conversation? How Can We Design for Effective Conversation? /
Knowledge Creation and Social Networks in Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Renewal of Organizational Capability /
Imagining and Rationalizing Opportunities: Inductive Reasoning and the Creation And Justification of New Ventures /
Strategy and Use of Metaphor /
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking /
Disruptive Innovation at the Eastman Kodak Company (Part III) /
Reflections on Innovation Processes in Organizations /
The A.C.I.M.- Agenda: Adaptation- Creativity- Innovation- Management Quadruple as a New Resource /
Innovation Networks /
Strategizing Throughout the Organization: Managing Role Conflict in Strategic Renewal /
Selling Issues to Top Management /
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