Develop and deploy industry-leading ideas with this groundbreaking management toolkit
The universal modern image of an innovator is a technological entrepreneur, who conceives and develops their groundbreaking ideas outside an existing institution and only subsequently builds infrastructure around it. In reality, however, the bulk of technological innovation comes through Intrapreneurship: innovation that takes place inside an existing organization, taking advantage of the institutional support and economies of scale provided by continuing enterprises. Intrapreneurship Management is an approach that cultivates these internal innovations and the knowledge workers who produce them.
Intrapreneurship Management: Concepts, Methods, and Software for Managing Technological Innovation in Organizations offers a guide to this approach, its challenges, and its rewards. Beginning with a simple yet flexible definition of innovation - an idea implemented with impact - it analyzes the processes and organizational tools by which novel ideas can be fostered, supported, and applied, producing industry-leading firms that maximize their internal talent. It also provides access and tools for using IntrapreneurshipREADINESSNavigator (IRN), a unique software already deployed successfully in over 150 innovation projects.
Intrapreneurship Management readers will also find:
- Case studies of technological innovations within a range of organizations
- A look forward to future challenges facing innovative organizations in the 21st century
- Detailed treatment of subjects including innovation marketing, systematic creativity, and developing innovative organizational culture
Intrapreneurship Management is ideal for intrapreneurs, their managers, and any professionals working in industries driven by technological innovation, as well as researchers and students of management.
Table of Contents
About the Authors xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xiv
1 Introduction and Overview 1
1.1 Innovation: A Simple Yet Comprehensive Definition 1
1.2 Special Importance of Intrapreneurship Management 3
1.3 Focus, Approaches, Emphases, Theme, and Major Contributions of the Book 4
1.4 Overview of Book Organization 6
2 The Internal Innovation or Intrapreneurship Process 13
2.1 The Internal Innovation Process as an Interactive System 13
2.2 Major Innovation Participants of Intrapreneurship 15
2.3 A Common Investment Perspective of All Innovation Participants 16
2.4 Specific Applications of the Investment Perspective 18
2.5 Alignment of Individual Investment Perspectives for Innovation Implementation 21
2.6 Generic Challenges to Intrapreneurship Caused by a Lack of Alignment of Investment Perspectives 21
2.7 Major Changes in the Business and Natural Environment and Special Challenges to Intrapreneurship in the 21st Century 23
2.8 Key Elements of Intrapreneurship Management 26
3 Understanding Human Needs and Wants as Driving Forces of Intrapreneurship 31
3.1 Overview of Human Needs and Wants 31
3.2 General Observations of Human Needs and Wants 35
3.3 Major Factors Influencing the Intensity of Needs and Wants 38
3.4 Special Applications to Intrapreneurship 39
3.5 Graphical Representations of Human Needs and Wants: The Maslow Hierarchical Model and a New Perspective 41
3.6 Application to Intrapreneurship Management: An Integrated Value Framework for Both the Individual and the Organization 48
4 A Unified Approach to Innovation Marketing with Applications to Organization Readiness in Intrapreneurship Management 53
4.1 A Broad Definition and a Supply and Demand Perspective of Innovation Marketing 54
4.2 A Unified Approach to Innovation Marketing 55
4.3 Application of the Unified Approach to Innovation Marketing in Intrapreneurship: Organization Readiness Assessment 61
5 Applying the Unified Approach of Innovation Marketing to External Adopter for Market Readiness Assessment 79
5.1 Interaction Between Market Readiness and Technology Readiness 79
5.2 Major Considerations of Marketing to External Adopter 82
5.3 Market Readiness 86
5.4 Development of Market Readiness Indicators 93
6 Innovative Product Development: Creative Problem-Solving and Technology Readiness Assessment 99
6.1 Introduction 99
6.2 Main Barriers to Continued Development of Creativity 100
6.3 Creative Problem-Solving as a Trainable Skill 102
6.4 General Approaches and Tools for Creative Problem-Solving 103
6.5 Team-Based Creative Problem-Solving Approach by the Enneagram (Based on contributions by Matt Schlegel) 107
6.6 Systematic Approach for Creative Problem-Solving as Represented by TRIZ (Based on contributions by D. Daniel Sheu) 113
6.7 Exploring Nescience for Creative Problem-Solving 119
6.8 Artificial Intelligence and Creative Problem-Solving 122
6.9 Innovative Product Development and Technology Readiness Assessment 123
7 Intrapreneurship Readiness Assessment: Methodology 131
7.1 General Methodological Approach for Readiness Assessment 131
7.2 Organization Readiness 134
7.3 Market Readiness 137
7.4 Technology Readiness 143
7.5 Special Application of the Readiness Assessment Process 152
8 Intrapreneurship Readiness Assessment: Software Outline 155
8.1 Overall Structure and Key Functions 155
8.2 User Interface 158
9 Summary and Outlook 173
9.1 Overall Summary 173
9.2 Future Outlook and Potential Research Areas 175
Appendix A Case Studies of Innovative Companies 177
Appendix B Selected Cases for Innovation Project Readiness Assessment 191
Index 207
