Innovation Capability Maturity Model [Hardcover]

Whilst innovation remains of course an approach, a process, and is still often even reduced to a set of results, it essentially reflects a way of thinking evolution. Time is up for varying the thinking methods according to capacities and learned and available competencies with a view to change… the thinking level. No domain and no sector is immune to this transformation in todays’ world Having clarified our ideas through this book, we remain ever more convinced that the leveled maturity approach will lead to real advances in innovation over the 2020 years. Hence the competitive capacities of organizations must evolve. As we strive in our quest for new inspiration sources in business, let us reckon that all is bound to evolving… including the way to evolve. In that resides the very capacity to innovate.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi

PREFACE xiii

LIST OF ACRONYMS xvii

PART 1. THINK UP A METHOD 1

CHAPTER 1. INNOVATION: AN UNFINISHED JOURNEY 3

1.1. The journey as the end 3

1.2. Application of maturity levels in the innovation process 5

1.3. The effects of the knowledge society 7

1.4. What the current socioeconomic context indicates 8

1.5. Who can benefit from this book and how? 10

1.6. How to use this book? 12

CHAPTER 2. EVALUATING THE ABILITY TO INNOVATE 13

2.1. The art of change is not one-size-fits-all 13

2.1.1. Change is an awareness of a phenomenon’s time derivatives 14

2.1.2. Any system reflects the maturity of its subsystems 15

2.2. A failed timing translates into zero progress 16

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