How to Deliver on the Promise of Innovation

REPRINTED FROM: The Other Side of Innovation, Solving the Execution Challenge

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at Tuck. VG is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. In 2009, in addition to his positions at Tuck, VG  became the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. Click here to read VG’s full bio.

Chris Trimble is an expert on making innovation happen in large organizations. He has delivered keynote addresses at major conferences and has also worked with executives from dozens of companies in roundtable discussions and executive education programs.  He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business, and teaches in the School’s flagship offering, the Tuck Executive Program (TEP).

CONTENT DESCRIPTION: The Other Side of Innovation is a follow-up to VG’s and Chris’ best seller, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators (2005) which focused on teaching corporations to build breakthrough businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in their core business

The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge is all about how to deliver on the promise of innovation. Companies can’t survive without innovating. But most put far more emphasis on generating ‘big ideas’ than on executing them—turning ideas into actual breakthrough products, services, and process improvements. But without execution, ‘big ideas’ go nowhere.

The Other Side of Innovation is based on ten years of research into the best practices for executing an innovation initiative of any size or shape. It offers in-depth recommendations plus analysis of a wide variety of real-world examples of innovation inside of well-known companies like IBM, BMW, and Deere & Company.

This download features the introduction: Making Innovation Happen. Learn how companies fail at innovation execution and why. One common mistake is a company’s simplistic model for innovation. A model that puts the full burden of execution on an individual leader.

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VG is Faculty Director of Tuck’s newest executive offering, Leading Innovation: From Idea to Impact. Chris Trimble will also teach in this program which is designed for session managers who have responsibilities for driving innovation. Leading Innovation focuses on turning ideas into action and provides practical frameworks on how to navigate the innovation process and to successfully deliver winning innovation initiatives.