Managing Change And Innovation

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Organizational change refers to the adoption of a new idea or behavior by an organization.

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Productive innovation refers to innovations in products or services that typically start small and end up completely replacing an existing product or service technology for producers and consumers.

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If organizations don't change and innovate successfully, they die.

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An ambidextrous approach means incorporating structures and processes that are appropriate for both the creative impulse and for the systematic implementation of innovations.

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Three critical innovation strategies for changing products and technologies are exploration, discovery, and innovation.

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A product change is a change in the organization's product or service outputs.

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Exploration is the aspect of product and technology innovation that involves creating situational mechanisms to make sure new ideas are carried forward, accepted, and implemented.

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Creativity refers to the generation of novel ideas that might meet perceived needs or respond to opportunities for the organization.

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Confrontation, authoritarianism, and disciplined exploration are characteristics of the creative individual.

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Managers in creative companies avoid risk and experimentation.

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The acceptance of mistakes, the freedom to discuss ideas, and the assignment of nonspecialists to problems are characteristics of creative organizations.

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An idea incubator is a mechanism that provides a safe harbor where ideas from employees throughout the company can be developed without interference from company bureaucracy or politics.

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The innovation strategy for changing products and technologies that involves designing the organization to encourage creativity and the initiation of new ideas is known as cooperation.

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The innovation strategy for changing products and technologies that involves creating conditions and systems to facilitate internal and external coordination and knowledge sharing is known as exploration.

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The horizontal linkage model is increasingly important in a high-pressure business environment that requires rapidly developing and commercializing products and services.

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Innovative companies use a top-down approach.

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A new-venture team is a unit separate from the rest of the organization that is responsible for developing and initiating a major innovation.

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A skunkworks is a large, formal team, designed for leading organizations through major change.

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Innovation by acquisition means buying start-up companies to get innovative products and services, and usually the talent that created them.

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A person who sees the need for and champions productive change within the organization is called an idea champion.

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