If conflicting advice and mixed messages about how to instill innovation in your company have left you feeling dazed and confused-help is finally here. The Innovation Universe is a framework that tees up the most critical decisions and actions your company must take to become innovative for the long term. Developed and fine-tuned based on decades of experience, Dr. Tennant's unique insights, framing, and examples embody the practitioner-to-practitioner approach that is her hallmark.
The book discusses four core common-sense platforms from the Innovation Universe framework that can be easily applied to any company type, setting, or size.
FRAME: strategic mandate; linking strategy and innovation.GENERATE: customer-driven problem solving; from discovery to launch.EMBED: organization renovation, including culture and management systems.LEAD: unleashing human potential, in yourself and others.A guided tour of the "innovation universe" by a wise practitioner/teacher who created this comprehensive and accessible framework for those who desire to become more accomplished innovators within their own organizations.
Dr. Nancy Tennant is a practitioner, professor, consultant, and best-selling author of innovation, leadership, and organization change. She is one of the world's foremost thought-leaders in transforming businesses to achieve innovation "from everyone and everywhere." Businessweek named Dr. Tennant one of the top 25 Innovation Champions in the world.