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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Innovation Butterfly
    sub title: Managing Emergent Opportunities and Risks During Distributed Innovation
  name:
    name part: Anderson Jr., Edward G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Joglekar, Nitin R.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 176 p. online resource.
  abstract: Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple firms and across the globe and constitute a complex system consisting of many interacting parts. In the spirit of the "butterfly effect", metaphorically describing the sensitivity to initials conditions of chaotic systems, this book builds an argument that "innovation butterflies" can, in the short term, take up significant amounts of effort and sap efficiencies within individual innovation projects. Such "innovation butterflies" can be prompted by external forces such as government legislation or unexpected spikes in the price of basic goods (such as oil), unexpected shifts in market tastes, or from a company manager’s decisions or those of its competitors. Even the smallest change, the smallest disruption, to this system can steer a firm down an unpredictable and irreversibly different path in terms of technology and market evolution. In the long term, they can shift the balance of the entire innovation portfolio into unplanned directions. More importantly, we describe how innovation leaders can influence the emergent behavior of the system for good or ill. The first half of the book draws parallels from physics, economics, and sociology as well as evidence from multiple industries to describe the structural and behavioral causes of emergent phenomena in innovation settings as well as their often negative impacts. In the second half of the book, we turn to distributed management of innovation under emergence. We show that innovation butterflies, if improperly managed, most often lead to negative outcomes. On the other hand, it is also argued that while the complexity of the innovation system and the desire to experiment and try new and emergent alternatives preclu…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Section I: Understanding the Emergent Behaviour -- Section II: managing Emergent Behaviour -- Section III: Innovation Leader's new Work.
  note: by Edward G. Anderson Jr., Nitin R. Joglekar.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Complex Networks
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: R & D/Technology Policy
  classification: QC1-QC999
  classification: 621
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Understanding Complex Systems
  identifier: 9781461431312
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3131-2
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    record creation date: 130607
    record change date: 20151030051252.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-3131-2