Return on ideas : a practical guide to making innovation pay /

Return on Ideas is a practical guide to getting more from the resources you put into your innovation process. David Nichols clearly shows why current innovation funnel models stifle rather than encourage new ideas, and offers a new methodology, 'rocketing', to tackle the problem. The first...

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Main Authors: Nichols, David, 1967
Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Published: John Wiley & Sons,
Publisher Address: Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ :
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119209157
Summary: Return on Ideas is a practical guide to getting more from the resources you put into your innovation process. David Nichols clearly shows why current innovation funnel models stifle rather than encourage new ideas, and offers a new methodology, 'rocketing', to tackle the problem. The first book to look in detail at innovation as a business-driving imperative, Return on Ideas provides the tools, techniques and processes to actually upgrade the way you tackle innovation, illustrated with examples from innovative companies such as Yo! Sushi, Apple, Vodafone, Unilever, P & G, Danone, Amex and Be
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781119209157
1119209153
9780470512074
0470512075
Index Number: HF5415
CLC: F273.2
Contents: Return on Ideas; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; 1. This is getting us nowhere; What is the problem? The Funnel; 2. How to navigate this book; Segmenting users; PART I: The Case Study; 3. The Calippo Shots story; PART II: The Challenge; 4. Innovation isn't working; PART III: The Core Idea; 5. A new innovation paradigm: The Rocket Motor; 6. Rocketing: Destination; 7. Rocketing: Combustion; 8. Rocketing: Nozzle; 9. Rocketing: Expander; PART IV: The Entertainment; 10. Ten innovations that make it look easy; PART V: The Practicalities; 11. Doing it faster; 12. Avoiding the pitfalls
Appendix: Rocketing toolkitIndex.