Managing Creativity and Innovation (Harvard Business Essentials)

Packed with practical information designed for business readers and managers at all levels, this essential volume offers insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to help foster innovation.

Amazon Sales Rank: #187065 in Books Published on: 2003-07-01 Original language: English Number of items: 1 Binding: Paperback 192 pages

About the Author Harvard Business Essentials The Reliable Source for Busy Managers The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience. To assure quality and accuracy, each volume is closely reviewed by a specialized content adviser from a world class business school. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking for a personal resource, these solution-oriented books offer reliable answers at your fingertips.

Most helpful customer reviews 20 of 21 people found this review helpful. Essential, informative and invaluable Robert Morris is one of the volumes of the new Harvard Business Essentials series. Each offer formal responses to the issues most important to its purpose. The contents of this book is drawn from a variety of sources, including the Harvard Business School Press and the Harvard Business Review and Harvard ManageMentor ®, an online service. Each volume is indeed "a great resource for readers of all experience levels." And everyone is the intention and execution-oriented solutions. Although I think those who have only recently embarked on a career in the world will allow us to optimize the hardware is well worth a periodic review by management. This volume gathers Richard Luecke sharp reflection on the management of creativity and innovation, ably assisted individual consultant Ralph Katz, a professor at Northeastern University College of Business and Management Technology Group MI.T. 'S Sloan School of Management. They carefully organized material on these eight chapters: 1 Types of innovation (of various types on many fronts) 2 S-Curve (a concept and its lessons) 3 Idea development (opening a bottle of genius) 4 Ability to recognize (Do not Let The Good Ones flight) 5 Moving Innovation to Market (Will It Fly?) 6 Creativity and creative groups (two keys to innovation) 7 Enhancing creativity (Enriching the organization and work) 8 What leaders must do (Make a difference) in two appendices as follows, there are brief discussions, but insightful "The time value of money" and "useful tools for innovation." "Luecke and Katz also sections on Notes, Glossary, and recommended reading if you need help with mastering material in one of these areas, I ask for a copy of this book ASAP. Luecke is a very clear thinker and Buy authors. thoughtfully, he sees a "Summary" light at the end of each chapter, a review of the key points. There are four other books I recommend taking all of which are available in a paperback edition. First, Michael Michalko's Cracking Creativity, where he explains how to overcome using different strategies ("crack") barriers to human creativity: knowledge of how to see what one thought visible, think liquid so that the Roman (bizarre is better) combinations, connecting disjointed , look for the "other side," looking at different environments to find "what you do not look for the awake and cooperative. the expected unexpected by Roger von Oech handles 30 "creative ideas" of Heraclitus which include, for example # 2 "Expect the unexpected, you will not find" # 4 "you can not in the same river twice", # 12 " Many understand what is right to fail in the palm, "and 26" ass better garbage into gold. " Obviously agrees with von Oech Jim Collins as the most formidable obstacles to creative thinking are what Collins describes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of habit." If you expert advice, such as planning and implementation of effective brainstorming need that reads "must "include Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain and Tom Kelley, The Art of Innovation. As with any other in the Harvard Business Essentials series, this volume is essentially an introduction to modern thinking on a topic of particular importance to companies. Yes, that's the most generic material. No, it does not have a coherent, comprehensive and cost-effective systems for managing creativity and innovation, but one of the eight chapters (all by itself) is worth far more than the cost for this product. Of course, I highly recommend. In fact, I think all makers, all volumes in the Harvard Business Essentials series and then revisit read.