Making Innovation Work challenges prevailing misconceptions and lays out the tools and processes necessary for an organization to harness, manage, and execute innovation successfully and profitably. It provides a start-to-finish process for defining innovation strategy, integrating innovation and business strategy, balancing creativity and value capture, weaving innovation into the fabric of th...

Nowadays the new product and its importance are consideredas an essential strategy for staying in business. Though the hi-techindustry has focused on value innovation and improving the qualityof the new product development (NPD) process to drive new productperformance, new product success has not changed dramaticallyover the years. This study presents a novel approach based on structuralequatio...

I T is an integral component of business strategies—including innovation strategies—in contemporary firms.1,2 As the business environment becomes more global and competitive, firms must tailor their strategy for innovating based on their own geographic location and that of their target audience, recognizing the differences in how developing versus developed countries approach innovation. Furthe...

Strategic management establishes an operational link between the enterprise's overall strategy and more specific aspects of management, such as human resources management (HRM). In a way, the strategic vision is an extension of the systemic vision, which included various elements but did not integrate them from the outset into the enterprise's overall strategy nor establish an operational link ...

ion and generalisation. Managers in the consultancy companies have indicated that the level of vertical integration in the companyinfluences the choice of functionalities of the levers to implement. It has been discussed how the verticalintegration of the company is related to different strategic priorities (business performances) and different critical issues from the knowledge managem...

The RoboCup rescue simulation competitions have been held since 2001. The experience gained during these competitions has supported the development of multi-agent and robotics based solution for disaster mitigation. The league consists of three distinct competitions. These competitions are the agent competition, the virtual robots competition, and the infrastructure competition. The main goal o...

---------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------The purpose of this study was to examine and analyzed the effect of business strategy on innovation and firm performance in the small industrial sector. Especially, to analyzed partially the effect of business strategy on innovation, the effect business strategy on firm performance, ...

For several decades, marketing researchers have stressed that firms can achieve competitive advantage by creating superior value for customers through innovation. However the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation based competitive strategy is deficient in several important respects. First, entrepreneurship has been poorly measured in the past. Next, research on innovation is biased towa...