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Innovation is becoming its own discipline, its own function in companies today. Established companies are clamoring for breakthrough innovation, but are typically held back by the highly reliable, repeatable processes of their management systems. But to remain competitive, medium and large companies must create an innovation function -- what the authors call a "Breakthough Innovation Capability" -- that will enable breakthroughs over and over.
This book outlines a model for Breakthrough Innovation Capability based on the authors' four-year research project of 12 companies: 3M, Air Products, Albany International, Corning, Dupont, GE, IBM, J&J Consumer, Kodak, MeadWestvaco, Sealed Air, and Shell Chemicals.
Gina Colarelli O'Connor is Associate Professor of Marketing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management and Technology. She currently serves as the Associate Director of the Severino Center for Technology Entrepreneurship and is also the Academic Director of the Radical Innovation Research Program, where she led a team of ten researchers in a longitudinal research study designed to understand and improve large, established companies' implementation of radical innovation capabilities.
Richard Leifer is an emeritus professor at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he had been on the faculty since 1983. He has published more than 30 articles in refereed journals and given more than 50 presentations to academic and professional audiences.
Albert Paulson is Gilbreth Chaired Professor of the Technologies of Management at Lally School of Management, RPI, and Chief Investment Officer, Purshe Kaplan and Sterling Advisors, as well as a consultant to national and international firms and governments. He is the author of over 100 articles, monographs, and books.
Lois S. Peters is Associate Professor and recent Director PhD program; and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy, Lally School of Management and Technology.
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