'Robert's Rules of Innovation' Excerpt

If your business is not innovating, it's dying. This book chapter lays out a checklist executives can use to ensure that innovation is an ongoing staple of the enterprise's culture.


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From John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | Oct 14, 2010

With the straightforward warning to "innovate or die," Robert F. Brands and Martin J. Kleinman's "Robert's Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival" urges companies to make innovation an integral part of organizational culture.

The book encourages companies to avoid cutting budgets to the point where innovation simply isn't attainable. Based on 25 years of hands-on experience, Brand and Kleinman provide practical tips, reminders, and advice from experts to create sustainable innovation techniques.

This excerpt, entitled "The Innovation Checklist," explores each step of the innovation plan in detail and asks the kinds of questions that executives must answer in order to achieve growth through sustainable innovation processes.

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  • Robert's Rules of Innovation Excerpt.pdf
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