Title: Capabilities for strategic advantage : leading through technological innovation /
Authors: Birchall, D. W.; Tovstiga, George.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Technological innovations Management; Strategic planning.
Abstract: "This book provides an authoritative, but practical, guide for executives faced with complex decisions about investment in technologies for innovation. It provides a set of key questions which, if properly addressed, will ensure that the organization is on top of decision making in this important area. The book not only deals with strategic aspects relating to essential capabilities for innovation and their development, it also guides the reader through the maze of issues in moving from idea to successful product or service, taking findings from the most telling research currently available. It presents a well tried and highly successful methodology for establishing needs for capabilities in organizations, and gives practical examples of its application to a range of organizational issues."--Jacket.
Contents: Ch. 1. Capabilities and competitive advantage in continually changing contexts -- Ch. 2. Capabilities as strategic resources -- Ch. 3. Capabilities and competitive advantage -- Ch. 4. Managing capabilities for strategic advantage -- Ch. 5. Strategic capabilities and innovation -- Ch. 6. Evolutional innovation : deriving opportunity from disruption -- Ch. 7. Market orientation and innovation success -- Ch. 8. Accelerating progress through partnering and alliancing -- Ch. 9. Creating organizations and networks to support innovation -- Ch. 10. Managing complex technology projects, programs, and portfolios -- Ch. 11. Measuring innovation performance -- App. A. Strategic capabilities portfolio analysis : diagnostic methodology -- App. B. Case study : BP Amoco and capabilities development.