How Innovation Really Works: Using the Trillion-Dollar R&D Fix to Drive Growth (Business Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1259860930 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. Anne Marie Knott is Professor of Strategy at Washington University, where her principle area of research is innovation. Prior to receiving her PhD from UCLA, Professor Knott was a project engineer and program manager at Hughes Aircraft Com
Constance E. Helfat said and shows companies how they can easily measure how well their R&D is translating into improved. This books does an outstanding job of debunking myths about what makes R&D effective, and shows companies how they can easily measure how well their R&D is translating into improved revenues. The RQ measure proposed in the book is easy to calculate, and doing so is likely to be a wake-up call for most companies. The book is a very readable and comprehensive discussion of where innovation efforts go right and wrong. This book will change the way you think about innovation Trey Cummings This book is a great example of making relevant research accessible to both researchers and practitioners and will challenge your preconceived notions about innovation. The Research Quotient (RQ) of a firm is an intuitive innovation measure which has the potential to help managers identify innovation changing improvements to their organization through quantitative analysis. The book begins by establishing widely h. "This book is an easy and entertaining read" according to Amazon Customer. This book is an easy and entertaining read. As a retired senior executive at several technology-based companies, I wish that I had this book available to me during my This book is an easy and entertaining read Amazon Customer This book is an easy and entertaining read. As a retired senior executive at several technology-based companies, I wish that I had this book available to me during my 40+ year career. Embarrassing to me, it identified several of the methods we used to determine development budgets and to measure results-- all of which were debunked by Dr. Knott.While Chapter 10 is the foundation for the preceding chapters, the dis. 0+ year career. Embarrassing to me, it identified several of the methods we used to determine development budgets and to measure results-- all of which were debunked by Dr. Knott.While Chapter 10 is the foundation for the preceding chapters, the dis
N. McLaughlin Chaired Professor at the Tuck School of Business of Dartmouth College and author of The Wide Lens“RQ is an invaluable tool for CTOs and those involved with leading and funding technology development and innovation. Knott provides astute insights and a quantitative tool to define and improve the productivity of innovation spending, as well as inform strategic discussions on optimizing investment at a company level, as well as how to best optimize among divisions.”Bruce Brown, former CTO of Procter and Gamble“When it comes to innovation, many companies are like Alice in Wonderlandthey don’t know where they want to go and so
In this essential guide, you will learn:• how to use RQ to determine which R&D investments are most likely to drive growthusing the hard data you already have to better utilize the innovation tools you’re already using• the 7 misconceptions about innovation trendsand how to avoid the ones that don’t work• how investors can achieve 9x returns in the market and help companies in the process• why corporateand GDPgrowth has stalled and how to restore it without R&D tax credits This book promises to do for innovation and R&D what TQM did for manufacturing and what Sabremetrics did for baseball. The results are nothing short of game-changing. That’s because there hasn’t been a universal, uniform, and reliable measure of R&Duntil now.First introduced in Anne Marie Knott’s influential Harvard Business Review article, RQTM (Research Quotient) is a revolutiona