Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization

Mandatory reading for executives and organisations looking for practical innovation

Innovation has no social boundary. These days a number of farmers, agricultural workers, craftsmen and young citizens in the rural areas in a developing country like India are emerging as enthusiast innovators. Some of the factors, as identified by the STS researchers for grassroots innovation, are primarily affordability and sustainability, while grassroots innovations are acknowledged as community-led frugal solutions to the local problems.This book explores lessons learned from grassroots innovation movements in India and other developing countries.

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Beyond the Idea offers a fresh perspective in understanding the dynamics of innovation in relation to the perfomance engine, and why each should respect the other. The performance engine is geared toward incremental improvements, and typically uncomfortable with innovation. Both are needed for the long term sustainablility of an organization. Innovation makes room for failure, where the perfomance engine does not. The key is controlled measurements and recognizing as early as possible when an innovative concept will not work and needs to be abandoned or re-directed. The only true failure is to stop creating and testing innovative concepts.

Great discussion of innovation management's implementation challenges.

This book provided an interesting -- and realistic -- perspective of how to move beyond idea generation and implement solutions through innovation. It covered three different organizational approaches to innovation which I found helpful to gauge a company's true commitment to becoming truly innovative.

True innovation starts only after the parties and fanfare are over. As someone who runs an innovation program for a fortune 50 company I can attest to the validity and significant value of the work done by the authors. Highly recommended. A lighter version would be their earlier work "How Stella saved the farm" which this book accompanies.

A must read