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The Innovator's Toolkit explains all the fundamental tools and concepts anyone involved in innovation should be familiar with, including improving products and services, and developing new ones. The book is written in an easy-to-use reference format that helps users understand why, when and how to apply each tool. The tools and techniques in this book are organized around a 4-step innovation methodology: Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate (D4), which takes readers through problem identification, then flows into idea generation, idea selection and, finally, idea implementation. This revised second edition adds a new Part I for leaders, with 7 new chapters. This will be all new material summarizing the state-of-art and practice for those charged with leading and managing innovation in their organizations. The authors will present the best thinking and practice on a number of managerial dimensions currently published and purported from siloes--for example, the best, latest and greatest on innovation portfolio development, human talent management, innovation culture and innovation deployment. To summarize, a new edition of The Innovator's Toolkit with these proposed changes would meet a very important need for knowledge that can help innovation leaders and managers do their jobs better, while also retaining the compendium of practical tools and techniques that can be readily applied by leaders, managers and practitioners alike.

Praise for The Innovator's ToolkitThis book delivers the tools needed to unlock the creative potential of employees in any organization. It's the missing link between making an organization great at what it does today (operational efficiencies) and also successful at what it will do tomorrow (revenue growth). Get ready to re-examine core assumptions about how you run your business." JOHN BIEDRY, Global Director of Lean Enterprise, Nike "This is not just a book to read and ponder. It's an enormously practical framework that my team and I use to execute day-to-day product management activities. I have become a Jobs to be Done evangelist!" GABI STRIJP, Executive Head of Business Mobility, Vodacom South Africa "A business book that is also a practical guide! This book isn't about new concepts; it's about bringing innovation concepts together into one place and providing clear, concise, step-by-step mentoring. If you are serious about heading down the path of innovation, this book is a great reference." F. ROBERT SALERNO, President and Chief Operating Officer, Avis Budget Group, Inc. "A definitive and one-of-a-kind work, this book packs more innovation know-how under its hood than any other resource available. Silverstein and his coauthors have successfully connected the scattered dots of organic growth into an unbelievably cohesive, elegant, and actionable framework." DENNIS CAREY, PhD, Senior Partner, Korn/Ferry International, and coauthor of How to Run a Company "Driving organic growth is one thing. Driving it and realizing it on a large-scale and sustainable basis throughout a corporation is quite another. The system and techniques in this book enable many more, rather than fewer, to innovate and to repeatedly meet organic growth objectives." GREG FRAZIER, Executive Vice President, Avnet, Inc. "This book is truly the first and only of its kind. Its authors do an incredible job of showing how creativity and ideation techniques work hand-in-hand with Lean and Six Sigma tools to manifest the innovation agenda." BERND WEBER, PhD, Director of Quality Management, ADVA Optical Networking, Munich, Germany "The Innovator's Toolkit provides a repeatable, reliable methodology that promises to be every bit as effective at driving innovation and organic growth as Lean Six Sigma has been for driving process improvement. The tools in this book are a valuable addition to any business excellence initiative." ROBERT CRESCENZI, Vice President of Business Excellence, NewPage Corporation "The Innovator's Toolkit is a practical, well-thought-out work that is immediately usable for anyone or any company interested in enhancing innovation in an enterprise. Well done!" TY R. SAGALOW, President, Innovation Insurance Group