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Sustained Innovation

Converging Business and Technology
to Achieve Enduring Performance

Advance Acclaim

“We are in the Era of Innovation, brought about by tectonic shifts in the global marketplace and by the staggering needs of millions of the world’s people. In his usual fashion, Faisal Hoque presents this highly readable and thought-provoking book to take us on an international tour of the corporations, governments and social enterprises like our Grameen, that are organizing in new ways to transform the 21st Century. By marrying the power of technology and business, there is very little we can’t accomplish. Sustained Innovation shows where and how this is happening and inspires us to join in this new era.
Professor Muhammad Yunus Founder of Grameen Bank Father of Microcredit Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006

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Book Description

"Innovate or die" may be a cliché, but the world solves its problems and moves ahead today on the back of innovation.

With most organizations wedded to technology today, information technology and business are the two necessary ingredients for innovation. Are you ready to mix them up?
In summary:

  • Innovation is not haphazard but involves a concerted effort between technology and business leaders to develop new products and services that customers really want.
  • The process of creating a new business model must involve the technology leaders from the beginning.
  • Changes in management structure will help fuel this partnership, as will new business roles to bridge the gap between business and technology disciplines.
  • The ability to manage business and technology together can profoundly transform "knowledge economy leaders" regardless of their industry focus.

Innovation is not haphazard. Although its core is a creative idea, it only becomes effective when part of a process: a leader recognizes a need, assembles an organization and designs processes to meet it, and then applies business technology to make it work. Today, technology has so permeated our organizations as to be indispensable. At many companies, it accounts for more than half of capital spending. Simply put, business and technology have converged. Effective management of business technology can not only create more profits for corporations but can also forever alter social enterprises that serve the "bottom of the pyramid" - the underdeveloped and the underprivileged.

Sustained Innovation demonstrates the need for a seamless, structured management approach that begins with the board and CEO and connects all the way through technology investment and implementation. It shows how an organization can be configured to make innovation repeatable.

The secret is that innovation must be managed as any other business activity. Sustained Innovation shows how to create an infrastructure for the innovation process.

This book shows how companies can survive and even thrive in the global knowledge economy. It draws on best-selling author Faisal Hoque's breakthrough Business Technology Management (BTM) models, many years of hands-on management experience, his own entrepreneurial innovations, and the BTM Corporation's years of multi-disciplinary research.

Using case studies from F100 companies, social enterprises, and the government sector, Sustained Innovation shows how enterprises can innovate to survive and even thrive in the global knowledge economy.

It analyzes the innovation approach taken by cross-industry global leaders and thinkers such as:

  • Lord John Browne, Group CEO, BP
  • Jeffrey Immelt, CEO, GE
  • Franck Riboud, Chairman and CEO, Groupe Danone
  • Professor Michael Useem, Wharton
  • C.K. Prahalad, Professor of Corporate Strategy, Roth School of Business
  • Professor Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
  • Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab

 
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Reviews

Quality Progress Reviews
April 2008

This book is an interesting and thought-provoking offering

Ziff/Davis/CIO Insight
December 14, 2007

Selected as One of the Top 10 Business Books of 2007

CIO Insight
December 7, 2007

Selected as One of the Top 5 Transformation Books of Last Few Years

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