Making Innovation Work
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The authors of Making Innovation Work have spent their lives working on innovation. This book reflects years of research as well as extensive experience working with companies and other kinds of organizations to strengthen the value they create from innovation. The authors understand why some companies fail at innovation while others excel. And they describe what companies need to do to improve performance in innovation.
 
 
 
Tony Davila
Tony Davila is a professor in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He received his doctorate from Harvard Business School, where his emphasis was on the design of management control and performance measurement systems to improve innovation in organizations.

 
 
Marc Epstein
Marc Epstein is presently Visiting Professor and Hansjoerg Wyss Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School, and Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Prior to his current positions, Dr. Epstein was a professor at Stanford Business School and INSEAD.

 
 
Robert Shelton
Robert Shelton is a director at management consulting firm PRTM, where he leads the firm's global innovation practice. He has assisted leading companies across a range of industry sectors, including energy, health care, consumer goods, electronics, software, and automotive, to integrate new business models and new technologies into their strategy and operations. Mr. Shelton was previously with Navigant Consulting, Arthur D. Little, and Stanford Research Institute.

 
 
making Innovation Work
"Any startup that cannot effectively manage what the authors describe as the natural tension between creativity and delivering value from creativity is not likely to survive."

Arthur L. Chait, President & CEO, EoPlex Technologies
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