Innovation Imperative: Actualizing Ingenious Ideas at a Canadian Auto Metal Stamping Plant - Softcover

Baluch, Nazim

 
9783659578533: Innovation Imperative: Actualizing Ingenious Ideas at a Canadian Auto Metal Stamping Plant
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3659578533 ISBN 13: 9783659578533
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

In industrialized countries manufacturing firms are facing significant change resulting from mass customization, shortening product life cycles, increasing technological change, and the entry of international competitors into their markets as witnessed by the automotive and electronics industries. Survival of the companies depends on their ability to compete through ingenious and innovative products and processes. This book construes the process of ‘impelling and managing innovation’ at an automotive metal stamping plant in Canada, during the 2008-2009 financial crises in North America. The book discusses the processes, psychological and physical environment, organizational culture, economic climate, and program content; rationale, significance and denouement. The book concludes that idea management systems don't replace traditional departments and processes involved in new services, products, or strategies. They serve as an adjunct to them and provide a framework that can help organizations turn innovation into an enterprise-wide discipline-and a sustainable process that drives growth in good times and bad.

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Reseña del editor

In industrialized countries manufacturing firms are facing significant change resulting from mass customization, shortening product life cycles, increasing technological change, and the entry of international competitors into their markets as witnessed by the automotive and electronics industries. Survival of the companies depends on their ability to compete through ingenious and innovative products and processes. This book construes the process of 'impelling and managing innovation' at an automotive metal stamping plant in Canada, during the 2008-2009 financial crises in North America. The book discusses the processes, psychological and physical environment, organizational culture, economic climate, and program content; rationale, significance and denouement. The book concludes that idea management systems don't replace traditional departments and processes involved in new services, products, or strategies. They serve as an adjunct to them and provide a framework that can help organizations turn innovation into an enterprise-wide discipline-and a sustainable process that drives growth in good times and bad.

Biografía del autor

Dr. Nazim Baluch, a Canadian, has worked in the Canadian Automotive Industry and Supply Chain Management with hands on experience in Manufacturing and Operations Management for the last several years. He earned his MBA (2004) from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; and PhD in Technology Management from Universiti Utara Malaysia (2012).

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3659578533
ISBN 13 
9783659578533
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
68
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