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Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal
Tushman and O'Reilly examine how leadership, culture, and organizational architectures can be both important facilitators of innovation and, not uncommonly, formidable obstacles. They demonstrate how to clarify today's critical managerial problems, use culture and commitment to promote innovation and implement strategy, and deal with changing innovation requirements as organizations evolve.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1997
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October 19, 2021
Good, but not great
For me, Clayton M. Christensen who covers similar ground in his books does a better job on this subject.
There is a lot of interesting and quality content here which highlights how to identify problems with suggestions on steps to implement to design products for today and tomorrow. Many examples of existing businesses which did just this help to clarify the message.
One major problem for me is the book is longer than necessary and my patience started to fail by the final quarter of the book. It could easily be reduced by 50 pages to keep the focus and the messages clear.
For me, Clayton M. Christensen who covers similar ground in his books does a better job on this subject.
There is a lot of interesting and quality content here which highlights how to identify problems with suggestions on steps to implement to design products for today and tomorrow. Many examples of existing businesses which did just this help to clarify the message.
One major problem for me is the book is longer than necessary and my patience started to fail by the final quarter of the book. It could easily be reduced by 50 pages to keep the focus and the messages clear.
July 8, 2020
Примеры компаний по котором автор построил свою теорию давно устарели. Не все остались на плаву. Смешно слушать по Кодак как компанию успешно внедрившие изменения.
Да и вся суть управления изменениями больше дана в последних двух главах.
Много повторов одной и той же идеи для заполнения пространства.
Выбирал из немногих доступных по такой теме не ЛитРес.
Да и вся суть управления изменениями больше дана в последних двух главах.
Много повторов одной и той же идеи для заполнения пространства.
Выбирал из немногих доступных по такой теме не ЛитРес.
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April 6, 2010
This book came recommended by a former coworker, so I picked it up at the local library.
I'm still scratching my head how the authors squeezed over 200 pages expanding on a simple thesis: innovation is good, even when you think you are doing well. You can pretty much fit everything I gleaned from the book on a fortune cookie. O'Reilly fills the rest of the pages with "case studies", really just drawn out and boring narratives about certain companies that employed his principles (and did well) & others that ignored them and floundered. Except that he wrote the book in the 90s, and many of the companies he disparages (e.g., Apple) are now considered innovative leaders and vice-versa. It goes to show you that you can find anecdotal evidence to support whatever thesis you want. I suppose you could make the same critique about most "business" books, but at least others I have come across are more compelling - Or at least tell more interesting stories.
I'm still scratching my head how the authors squeezed over 200 pages expanding on a simple thesis: innovation is good, even when you think you are doing well. You can pretty much fit everything I gleaned from the book on a fortune cookie. O'Reilly fills the rest of the pages with "case studies", really just drawn out and boring narratives about certain companies that employed his principles (and did well) & others that ignored them and floundered. Except that he wrote the book in the 90s, and many of the companies he disparages (e.g., Apple) are now considered innovative leaders and vice-versa. It goes to show you that you can find anecdotal evidence to support whatever thesis you want. I suppose you could make the same critique about most "business" books, but at least others I have come across are more compelling - Or at least tell more interesting stories.
March 28, 2016
As with a lot of management books, or at least most of the few I've read, this book spends a long time explaining a simple idea.
On the face of it this is quite an annoying thing to do, but actually by hammering the point home with example on top of example it makes this basic idea less likely to be ignored in future work.
Importantly the book covers why attempts to change what a business does and how it does it often fail, and offers clear strategies to avoid failure.
I read this for a strategy course as part of the assigned reading, but think it has value for any senior manager thinking long-term about their business.
On the face of it this is quite an annoying thing to do, but actually by hammering the point home with example on top of example it makes this basic idea less likely to be ignored in future work.
Importantly the book covers why attempts to change what a business does and how it does it often fail, and offers clear strategies to avoid failure.
I read this for a strategy course as part of the assigned reading, but think it has value for any senior manager thinking long-term about their business.
January 10, 2017
This one is good book that tackle the ways of innovating in orgnization. It embrace innovation not only theoretically but also practically in a comprehensive way. The one drawback is that the book is a bit an old one.
March 25, 2009
mandatory reading for anyone wanting a career in strategy
August 18, 2016
Read as part of my masters program. Many great concepts but didn't think it spoke enough about how to actually create innovation practically in an organization. Great theory and conceptual ideas.
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