Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators

Book Description

Building a New Business within a Profitable Old One

Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That's what makes emerging high-growth industries so attractive. Although they lack a proven formula for making a profit, these industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast e...

Book Description

Building a New Business within a Profitable Old One

Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That's what makes emerging high-growth industries so attractive. Although they lack a proven formula for making a profit, these industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast enough and smart enough.

But constructing tomorrow's businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in today's demands a delicate balance. It is a quest fraught with contradiction and paradox. Until now, there has been little practical guidance.

Based on an in-depth, multiyear research study of innovative initiatives at ten large corporations, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble identify three central challenges: forgetting yesterday's successful processes and practices; borrowing selected resources from the core business; and learning how the new business can succeed. The authors make recommendations regarding staffing, leadership roles, reporting relationships, process design, planning, performance assessment, incentives, cultural norms, and much more.

Breakthrough growth opportunities can make or break companies and careers. Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators is every leader's guide to execution in unexplored territory.

Synopsis

This book offers a practical framework for launching successful new growth businesses within an established organisation. One of the toughest challenges any manager can face is to execute an all-new business model inside a successful old one. But, at the same time, companies that don't explore new avenues for growth will eventually stagnate and die. "Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators" offers a comprehensive, practical guide to launching such "strategic experiments" successfully - including which parts of the core business to leave behind, which to borrow and which parts of the new business will have to be learned from scratch.

From Publishers Weekly

By burying their titular 10 rules in a small final chapter, Govindarajan and Trimble commit the first deadly sin of business writing: ambiguity. Before that, readers can be forgiven for believing there are only three fundamental principles for stewarding innovative projects within established companies: forgetting, borrowing and learning. The Fast Company columnists, who cofounded a leadership institute at Dartmouth's business school, argue that most companies do not understand how to foster a genuinely experimental environment. Judging the new company ("NewCo") by the performance standards of the core company ("CoreCo") won't inspire change, hence the need to forget. But NewCo does have to borrow selectively from CoreCo's best resources in order to gain the foothold necessary for success, and it must learn from its experiences rather than stick blindly to its earliest plans. Govindarajan and Trimble use case studies from four industries, including manufacturing and online media. The examples, supplemented by numerous figures that reduce ideas to clear bullet points, get their points across effectively, but some readers may grow impatient waiting for the promised rules to turn up. (Dec. 1)

Book Dimension

Height (mm) 238Width (mm) 160

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维贾伊·戈文达拉扬和克里斯·特林布尔供职于美国达特茅斯大学塔克商学院（Tuck School of Business at Dart mouth College）。2000年，他们在塔克商学院（www.tuck.dartmouth.edu／cgl）共同成立了William F. Achtmeyer全球领导力中心。从那时起，他们潜心研究多年终于完成了本书的著述。借此研究，他们在《公司捷径》杂志（Fast Corn-pany）的网站上刊载每月专栏（www.fastcompany.corn）。