Managing knowledge assets, creativity and innovation

"This book pulls together for the first time, works on knowledge and innovation, including the implementation of new processes and products, written by Dorothy A Leonard over more than two decades. It consists of articles from journals in diverse fields (e.g. the award-winning article on Core C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leonard-Barton, Dorothy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific , c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Managing technology and new product development
  • 2. Core capabilities and core rigidities : a paradox in managing new product development
  • 3. How to integrate work and deepen expertise
  • 4. Importing and absorbing technological knowledge from outside of the firm
  • 5. Alliance clusters in multimedia: safety net or entanglement?
  • 6. Using mentoring and storytelling to transfer knowledge in the workplace
  • 7. Deep smarts
  • 8. Building deep smarts through experience
  • 9. Expertise
  • 10. Experts as negative opinion leaders in the diffusion of a technological innovation
  • 11. Creative abrasion
  • 12. Putting your company' whole brain to work
  • 13. The role of tacit knowledge in group innovation 14. Virtual teams : using communications technology to manage geographically dispersed development groups
  • 15. Market research in product development
  • 16. Spark innovation through empathic design
  • 17. Designing the psychological environment
  • 18. The diffusion and implementation of innovations
  • 19. Implementation as mutual adaptation of technology and organization
  • 20. Implementing new production technologies : exercises in corporate learning
  • 21. Managerial influence in the implementation of a new technology
  • 22. Developer-user interaction and user satisfaction in internal technology transfer
  • 23. Diffusing innovations when the users are not the choosers : the case of dentists
  • 24. Innovation as a knowledge generation and transfer process