Global Strategic Guidelines for Innovation Management

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. The European Association for Creativity and Innovation IX
4. Gesellschaft für Kreativität e. V. XI
5. Preface XIII
6. Greeting XIX
7. Cross Cultural Creativity and Innovation XXIII
8. New Thoughts, Theories and Models
9. Ideas in the Workplace - A New Approach to Organise the Fuzzy Front End of the Innovation Process 3
10. How to Stimulate Innovation in a Cluster of Organizations? 21
11. Beyond Business Planning - The Role of Creativity in Sustainable Entrepreneurial Development 33
12. Beyond Systematic Innovation - integration of Emergence and Recursion Concepts into TRIZ and Other Tools 45
13. Dialectic Creativity, Based Upon Hegel's Triad of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis (TAS) 63
14. How to Make Creativity to Serve the Objectives of Corporate Strategy 81
15. A Gender View on Creativity 95
16. The More the Better? 101
17. Interactions between Product Development and Production I - Clashes in Cross-Cultural Learning 113
18. Interactions between Product Development and Production II - Clashes in Cross-Cultural Abstraction Levels 131
19. Creative Complexes: A Theoretical Framework for Collaborative Creativity 149
20. Creative Problem Solving in Software Development - Outsourcing through Internet 167
21. Global Strategic Guidelines for Innovation Management 173
22. Empirical Research
23. Impacts of Cultural Diversity on New Ventures - Theoretical and Empirical Findings 187
24. The Contingency and Inevitability of Organizational Innovation — Case Analysis of Ten Innovative Enterprises 217
25. Climate for Creativity in Polish Companies: Does a New Market Economy Need New Ideas? 237
26. Turning the Tide: The Quiet Resolve of Private Entrepreneurs in China 261
27. A Comparative Research on Creativity Development between Japanese and Chinese Enterprises 275
28. Is the Hydrogen Economy Coming? 289
29. Practical Reports from Business Experience
30. About Barriers to Innovation, Learning and Company Culture 303
31. Unilever: A Global Approach 313
32. Vitalizing the Innovation Process within and across Company Boundaries 321
33. Six Companies Join Forces - Report on a Group Project „New Products" 329
34. Fast, Innovative Breakthrough Using Cross-Cultural Collaboration 337
35. Organizational Due Diligence (OD2) 347
36. Can You "Drive" Cross-Cultural, Cross-Functional Innovation Workshops Successfully ? 367
37. Winning Team Results! - A Team-Based Approach to Project Management in Cross-Cultural Environments 397
38. Practical Reports using Methods and Technology
39. Open Space Technology - It Works! 431
40. Managerial Strategies of Power Tech Contest 443
41. Cross Cultural Implications for Creative Problem Solving 455
42. Interview on the Global Success of Mind-Mapping 465
43. The Dance of the Hero: Transcultural Myths and Creativity 473
44. Cross-Cultural Expert Teams in the Scenario Development Process 477
45. Practical Reports from Education
46. Effective Functions of Bilingual Teaching to Promote Creative Thinking 489
47. Pedagogy of Subjectivity - Basic Principles and their Practical Usage in Education 495
48. R&D Activities in Japanese Companies and Universities 511
49. History of the German Association for Creativity 527
50. Day of Creativity 537
51. Authors 541
52. Editors 549
53. Backmatter 556