The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth - Hardcover

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DavidSilverstein is founder and CEO of Breakthrough Management Group International, a consulting and training organization focused on innovation, Six Sigma, and business excellence. His articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Worth, Investor's Business Daily, BusinessWeek, and other media. For more information, visit www.BMGi.com. Philip Samuel is Chief Innovation Officer atBreakthrough Management Group International, a frequent public speaker, and an executive coach on innovation, Six Sigma, and Lean practices. He is also coauthor of Design for Lean Six Sigma. Neil DeCarlo is a veteran business author and publishing consultant. He has written more than 200 articles and papers on performance excellence, and is coauthor of Insourcing Innovation, Six Sigma For Dummies, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lean Six Sigma.

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Praise for The Innovator's Toolkit

"A business book that is also a practical guide! This book isn't about new concepts; it's about bringing innovation concepts together into one place and providing clear, concise, step-by-step mentoring. If you are serious about heading down the path of innovation, this book is a must-read."
F. Robert Salerno, President and Chief Operating Officer, Avis Budget Group, Inc.

"This book is truly the first and only of its kind. Its authors do an incredible job of showing how creativity and ideation techniques work hand-in-hand with Lean and Six Sigma tools to manifest the innovation agenda."
Bernd Weber, PhD, Worldwide Lean Six Sigma Deployment Leader, Qimonda AG

"A definitive and one-of-a-kind work, this book packs more innovation know-how under its hood than any other resource available. Silverstein and his coauthors have successfully connected the scattered dots of organic growth into an unbelievably cohesive, elegant, and actionable framework."
Dennis Carey, PhD, Senior Partner, Korn/Ferry International, and coauthor, How to Run a Company

"Driving organic growth is one thing. Driving it and realizing it on a large-scale and sustainable basis throughout a corporation is quite another. The system and techniques in this book enable many more, rather than fewer, to innovate and to repeatedly meet organic growth objectives."
Greg Frazier, Executive Vice President, Avnet, Inc.

"The Innovator's Toolkit is a practical, well-thought-out work that is immediately useable for anyone or any company interested in enhancing innovation in an enterprise. Well done!"
Ty R. Sagalow, President, AIG Product Development, General Insurance

"The Innovator's Toolkit provides a repeatable, reliable methodology that promises to be every bit as effective at driving innovation and organic growth as Lean Six Sigma has been for driving process improvement. The tools in this book are a valuable addition to any business excellence initiative."
Robert Crescenzi, Vice President of Business Excellence, NewPage Corporation

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Growing a company isn't easy and it's even more difficult to do on a sustainable basis if you don't have a system for innovation built into your organization. The Innovator's Toolkit explains more than fifty fundamental tools and concepts that anyone involved with innovation should know including methods and strategies for improving products and services and techniques for developing new ones.

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Success with organic growth, the authors reveal, takes a lot more than ideas, or even great ideas. It takes a base of managers and employees who can skillfully apply all the necessary techniques and tools of innovation not just the creative ones.

This book offers a practical framework for making innovation predictable and sustainable in any organization, with techniques from basics like "imaginary brainstorming" to "axiomatic design." The tools and techniques are organized around a four-step innovation methodology define, discover, develop, and demonstrate that takes readers through problem identification, then flows into idea generation, idea selection, and, finally,idea implementation.

Written in an easy-to-use reference format that helps readers understand why, when, and how to apply each tool, The Innovator's Toolkit provides the means to move an innovation mountain in your organization, making rebirth and invention an everyday event not an unexpected surprise.