Michael L. Tushman Knihy

"Drawing on an extensive research program and over a decade of helping companies to innovate, the authors present a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Top-down and bottom-up leaders are key to this process - a fact too often overlooked in the heated debate about innovation. But not in this case. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to improve their existing businesses through efficiency, control, and incremental change, while also seizing new markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation rule the day." -- from jacket

Emphasis is on managerial problem solving. Comprises a multidisciplinary array of readings, expanded, updated in this edition. Index of names only. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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.

Essays discuss management education, the success of Japanese corporations, corporate entrepreneurship, leadership, job enrichment, and organizations

From the publishers of Fast Thinking, the world's most foremost innovation magazine, and based on IBM's global CEO study on innovation, RETHINKING INNOVATION: delivers a framework for innovating your business model,drawing on lessons learned at Eli Lilly, Virgin, Bharti Airtel and Cirque du Soleil; explains the ABCs of collaboration and the importance of looking beyond your company walls; reports on how Lean Six Sigma techniques have delivered outstanding innovation dividends at Caterpillar and the Korean steel maker POSCO; tells you how to capitalize on emerging web-based technologies, with case studies including Nintendo and IBM; offers thoughts on innovation from Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class; Cochlear Chris Roberts; Google vice-president Douglas Merrill; and ResMed founder Peter Farrell.