Enterprise Innovation From Creativity to Engineering [Hardcover]

The World is changing and then also how enterprises carry out innovation needs to change. The book presents new methods and tools (from Creativity to Engineering), aimed at promoting and sustaining enterprise innovation and production improvement.

The book is primarily (but not exclusively) based on the new approaches, methods, frameworks, and tools conceived for enterprise innovation and production improvement, developed during the European Project BIVEE (Business Innovation for Virtual Enterprise Ecosystems.) Addressed topics range from Open Innovation in Virtual Enterprises to shared virtual spaces for collaborative creativity, to Innovation metrics and monitoring in the context of networked SMEs.

PART 1. BIVEE PROJECT FRAMING 1

CHAPTER 1. BUSINESS INNOVATION IN VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENTS 3
Massimo CANDUCCI

1.1. Introduction 3

1.2. Business innovation and virtual enterprises 5

1.3. Bibliography 6

CHAPTER 2. FROM CREATIVITY TO INNOVATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF DESIGN 7
Neil MAIDEN

2.1. Creativity and innovation 7

2.2. Creative problem-solving methods 8

2.3. Linking creativity and innovation through design 9

2.4. Service design processes 10

2.5. Integrating creativity support more effectively into service design methods 15

2.6 Conclusions 18

2.7. Bibliography 19

CHAPTER 3. THE BIVEE PROJECT: AN OVERVIEW OF METHODOLOGY AND TOOLS 21
Michele MISSIKOFF and Pierluigi ASSOGNA

3.1. Framing 21

3.2. The mission of BIVl“j