Organizing For Innovation

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Introduction
Sources of Innovation
Types and Patterns of Innovation
Standards Battles and Design Dominance
Timing of Entry Part Two Formulating Technological Innovation Strategy
Defining the Organizations Strategic Direction
Choosing Innovation Projects
Collaboration Strategies
Protecting Innovation
Organizing for Innovation
Managing the New Product Development Process
Managing New Product Development Teams
Crafting a Deployment Strategy Index

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A firm's organization structure can both help and hinder the firm's efforts at innovation.

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Coalitions of small firms often have well-defined systems of authority and control.

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When large companies break up into networks of small,often more autonomous divisions of independent firms it is called the Icarus Paradox.

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Standardization refers to the degree to which activities are performed in a uniform way.

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Formalization refers to the degree to which a firm's decision-making authority is retained only at high levels of the firm's hierarchy.

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Frankie's Chicken Shack wants to ensure better consistency and quality.To accomplish this Frankie needs to make her procedures more standardized.

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The Bobcat Machinery Company has a high degree of formalization and requires standardization of procedures with many rules dictated.Bobcat will find that this regulation leads to disciplined thinking which in turn fosters innovation.

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According to research,consumer product companies tend to use the centralized R&D structure to better meet individual market needs.

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An ambidextrous organization is one with a complex organizational form that is composed of multiple internally inconsistent architectures that can collectively achieve both short-term efficiency and long-term innovation.

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Firms which have multiple product divisions generally implement a common structure across all the divisions.

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The International Cyberspace Corporation is a very large firm.It can overcome its size barriers to creativity if it has the internal structures with the incentives and behaviors of small firms.

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A modular product is one that "modifies" or enhances another product.

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Advances in information technology have hindered the growth of loosely coupled organizational structures.

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A loosely coupled structure is better suited for activities that involve the exchange of tacit knowledge.

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The not-invented-here syndrome encourages companies to try innovations from divisions in other countries because persons who live in another country are more often seen as experts.

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The Peedle Chocolate Company is headquartered in Belgium.In the United States,it uses manufacturing techniques from France and marketing techniques from Great Britain.It seems to be using the locally leveraged R&D strategy.

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The globally linked R&D strategy is great for global coordination,but it is expensive.

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The locally leveraged and globally linked R&D strategies are the same.

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The transnational approach to R&D leverages resources and capabilities that exist anywhere within the firm and deploys them when and where an opportunity to do so exists.

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For the transnational approach to R&D to work,the organization must balance its identity between national brands and global image.

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