Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Innovation's Catch-22 1
Part I Creating an Innovation Strategy 19
1 Beginning the Journey: The Discipline and Focus of an Innovation Strategy 21
2 Navigating the Route: Creating Your Innovation Portfolio 37
3 Whatever Happened to Blockbuster?: Competing Through Business Model Innovation 57
4 Is the Party Really Over?: Why You Should Not Always Eat Your Own Lunch 85
Part II Designing the Innovation System 109
5 Venturing Outside Your Home Court: Search: Discovering Novel Problems and Solutions 111
6 Synthesis: Bringing the Pieces Together 129
7 When to Hold 'Em and When to Fold 'Em: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Art and Science of Selecting Projects 153
Part III Building the Culture 179
8 The Paradox of Innovative Cultures: Why It's Not All Fun and Games 181
9 Leaders as Cultural Architects: Reengineering the Cultural DNA of an Enterprise 197
10 Becoming a Creative Constructive Leader 217
Notes 225
Bibliography 241
Index 253