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Profiting From Innovation - The Report Of The Three-Year Study From The National Academy Of Engineering

by William G. Howard
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Transforming Innovation into Profitable Products

This book could be a good read for entrepreneurs and business leaders who are struggling to commercialize their innovative ideas. The authors present a detailed study on why some companies fail to profit from their technological inventions and provide solutions with real-life examples. The book emphasizes the importance of removing barriers to bring innovative ideas to the market and how to do it efficiently and systematically. Overall, this book can help the reader gain insight into ways of managing innovation and turning it into a profitable product.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Profiting From Innovation - The Report Of The Three-Year Study From The National Academy Of Engineering

by William G. Howard
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ISBN: 9780029223857
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $39.83
Authors: William G. Howard
Publisher: Free Press
Date of Publication: 1991-11-11
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Personal Development, Economics, Business
Related Topics: Business, Finance, Society, Entrepreneurship, Sociology, Management
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American industry is renowned for its scientific and technical breakthroughs -- and equally famous for its visible failures in commercializing its own technology. Drawing on many examples of successful innovation management, an elite panel of the nation's most accomplished technical managers demonstrates how companies can transform new ideas into products efficiently and systematically by removing the barriers that surround innovative technology. This book reveals how technical innovation occurs in distinct patterns, and explains how pure technological advance relates to the organizations and markets it affects. Early in the life of a new technology, value lies in the search for applications and means, and the benefits come from being early to market. Later, value comes from executing product, process, quality, or service improvements sooner than others do. Finally, value comes from correctly managing mature products. The authors emphasize that recognizing and understanding these patterns enable managers to structure and prosecute commercialization activities, and relate internal capabilities to external opportunities. Since goals and techniques must vary with the characteristics and maturity of the technology, the requirements of production, and the parameters of competition in each industry, management must be flexible in the methods and strategies it selects. This nuts-and-bolts handbook demonstrates how managing technical resources is as important to the paper clip business as it is to microelectronics, and describes and illustrates tools and techniques to help managers keep commercialization efforts in any business on track.
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Transforming Innovation into Profitable Products

This book could be a good read for entrepreneurs and business leaders who are struggling to commercialize their innovative ideas. The authors present a detailed study on why some companies fail to profit from their technological inventions and provide solutions with real-life examples. The book emphasizes the importance of removing barriers to bring innovative ideas to the market and how to do it efficiently and systematically. Overall, this book can help the reader gain insight into ways of managing innovation and turning it into a profitable product.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.