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If you're like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success.In Innovation to the Core, Strategos CEO Peter Skarzynski and business strategist Rowan Gibson change all that. They share the accumulated wisdom from Strategos--the consulting firm Skarzynski co-founded with Gary Hamel that helps clients instill innovation into their very core. Drawing on a wealth of stories and examples, the book shows how companies of every stripe have overcome the barriers to successful, profitable innovation. You'll find parts devoted to crucial topics--such as how to organize the discovery process, generate strategic insights, enlarge your innovation pipeline, and maximize your return on innovation. Frequent hands-on tools--frameworks, checklists, probing questions--help you put the book's ideas into action.Crafted in close coordination with Gary Hamel--the man who Fortune magazine has called "the world's leading expert on business strategy"--Innovation to the Core is the definitive fieldbook for making innovation a core competence in your organization.

"By asking how the world's top innovators - Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and many others - came up with their game-changing ideas ... Rowan Gibson identifies four key business perspectives that will enable you to discover groundbreaking opportunities for innovation and growth: Challenging orthodoxies: what if the dominant conventions in your field, market, or industry are outdated, unnecessary or just plain wrong? Harnessing trends: where are the shifts and discontinuities that will, now and in the future, provide the energy you need for a major leap forward? Leveraging resources: how can you arrange existing skills and assets into new combinations that add up to more than the sum of their parts? Understanding needs: what are the unmet needs and frustrations that everyone else is simply ignoring?"--Publisher's description

This volume looks at how organizations can be redesigned to survive and thrive in tomorrow's hyper-competitive global environment; how they can learn to adapt to change and improve their performance; and how they should be "managed", if at all.