Managing knowledge assets, creativity and innovation [electronic resource] / Dorthy A. Leonard.

ISBN:

9789814295505

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Author:

Leonard-Barton, Dorothy.

Personal Author:

Leonard-Barton, Dorothy.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 570 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Managing technology and new product development -- Core capabilities and core rigidities : a paradox in managing new product development / How to integrate work and deepen expertise / Importing and absorbing technological knowledge from outside of the firm / Alliance clusters in multimedia: safety net or entanglement? / Using mentoring and storytelling to transfer knowledge in the workplace / Deep smarts / Building deep smarts through experience / Expertise / Experts as negative opinion leaders in the diffusion of a technological innovation / Creative abrasion / Putting your company' whole brain to work

The role of tacit knowledge in group innovation / Virtual teams : using communications technology to manage geographically dispersed development groups / Market research in product development / Spark innovation through empathic design / Designing the psychological environment / The diffusion and implementation of innovations -- Implementation as mutual adaptation of technology and organization / Implementing new production technologies : exercises in corporate learning / Managerial influence in the implementation of a new technology / Developer-user interaction and user satisfaction in internal technology transfer / Diffusing innovations when the users are not the choosers : the case of dentists / Innovation as a knowledge generation and transfer process

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Subject Term:

Technological innovations -- Management.

Technology transfer.

Knowledge management.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2011

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Summary

This book pulls together for the first time, works on knowledge and innovation, including the implementation of new processes and products, written by Dorothy A Leonard over more than two decades. It consists of articles from journals in diverse fields (e.g. the award-winning article on Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities) and book chapters that cover the innovation process, from its inception in peoples' heads to its implementation. An underlying theme running throughout the book is managing the flow of knowledge that propels innovation -- especially tacit knowledge. Such knowledge is difficult to transfer or embody in a new product, process or service. However, it is not only essential but often comprises the most valuable component in the innovation. The opening chapter, written expressly for this volume, probes the connections between tacit knowledge, creativity and innovation.