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Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization's Growth Engine
Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn

This book presents a unique, holistic approach to creating innovation at all levels of your organization. Innovation experts Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn have created a real world, how-to playbook of integrated creativity tools and techniques for understanding where innovation comes from and harnessing its power to create a culture where real growth happens on a constant basis.

Discover how to diagnose obstacles to innovation, realistically assess your options, and develop an integrated program of action that can be adjusted to meet the needs of any group, department, or business unit throughout your organization.



Learn the 7 key steps to double-digit growth and spark innovation in:

  • Leadership – Teams, Development, and Behavior
  • Strategic Planning – Identifying Emerging Opportunities
  • Organizational Culture and Competency Development
  • Performance Management Processes – Resource Allocation, Portfolio Management
  • Innovation Incubation Processes, Stage-Gate Development Processes, Innovation Networks
  • Human Resource Management – Staffing, Team Building, Organizational Learning

    Insightful case studies demonstrate how these results-driven methods are supported by senior leadership at GE, Reuters, Coca-cola, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Eaton, and other leading innovators.


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    374 pages. ISBN 0071470182. 7 x 10. Hardcover. 2007

    Item: P1277
    Member Price: $39.95
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    About the Author(s):
    Jeff DeGraff is a professor of management education at the University of Michigan Business School and the coauthor of Creativity at Work.

    Shawn Quinn is manager of the practice for Creativity at Work, a consulting firm specializing in organizational change and innovation.