Innovation Excellence: Creating Market Success in the Energy and Natural Resources Sectors - Hardcover

Scholtissek, Stephan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749463465 ISBN 13: 9780749463465

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2011

Synopsis

In this book, author Stephan Scholtissek examines innovations as they relate to companies in the energy and natural resources sectors (e.g. energy, utilities, chemicals, mining and metals companies), sectors which are incorrectly assumed not to be innovative and which are undergoing massive change as the balance of power shifts towards emerging economies and as the world looks to a range of low carbon technologies. Scholtissek argues that innovation (strictly defined as the sum of invention <i>and</i> market success) is the only answer for competitive success in a multi polar world where the essential ingredients of business can no longer be used to differentiate companies. He states that companies must be restructured to be run as portfolios of innovations. Scholtissek sheds light on different forms of innovation (product, service, process, organization and business model) and argues that R&amp;D resources must be extended across all these forms. And he includes a number of detailed case studies from the energy and natural resources industries that demonstrate leading practice. The book will also address an end-to-end innovation process/framework that helps the innovation process run more smoothly. It will also include the key success factors that increase the likelihood of success of an innovation in a given company. Finally the author draws conclusions regarding the future of innovation. The goal is to provide the reader with a holistic approach to increasing the success of innovation in his/her company.

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About the Author

<b>Dr. Stephan Scholtissek</b> is Global Managing Director Growth and Strategy in Accenture's global Resources operating group. He is biochemist by education and has been working on different parts of innovation for the past 25 years. He is a sought-after expert for innovation and major transformation processes and sits on several review committees for innovation prices. He has been frequently published, most notably as the author of the Financial Times bestseller New Outsourcing (2004), Stromland (2006), Multipolare Welt (2008) and Die Magie der Innovation (2009). Last but not least, as a German he looks at global business through the lens of the former export champion. He puts forward a view significantly different to traditional Anglo-Saxon management theories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749463465
• ISBN 13: 9780749463465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224