Chapter 8 Mangement

idea incubator

organizational program that provides a safe harbor where employees can generate and develop ideas without interference from company bureaucracy or politics

unfreezing

organizations using surveys to determine how employees would feel about a change

need culture change

people throughout company need to become better at working in teams

Crowdsourcing

An open-innovation new-product idea program.

training

all mangers need to know how to interact with all different kinds of people

horizontal linkage model

Means that several departments, such as marketing, research, and manufacturing, work closely together to develop new products.

open innovation

extend the search for and commercialization of innovative ideas beyond the boundaries of the organization

bottom-up approach

giving everyone a month off from their regular duties to come up with creative ideas for new products and services

training

help certain employees improve a given skill or set of skills

widely shared

in large group intervention organization development model, inofrmation is:

Ambidextrous Approach

incorporating structures and processes that are appropriate creatively and systematically

Disruptive Innovation

innovations in products, services, or processes that radically change competition in an industry

rapid transformation

large-group intervention organizational development leads to:

new-venture fund

provides financial resources from which individuals or teams can draw to develop new ideas, products, or businesses

skunkworks

separate, informal, highly autonomous and often secretive group focusing on breakthrough ideas

Organizational Change

the adoption of a new idea or behavior by an organization

Innovation by acquisition

buying start-up companies to get innovative products and services, and usually the talent that created them

organizational development

the company's main product is becoming obsolete and it's last two efforts failed

FAST

time frame for large group intervention organizational debelopment

specific problem or group

traditional organizational development model applies to:

Force Field Analysis

consider problems and oppurtunities that drive change and the factors that restrain change

external coordination

continuously seeks new ideas from customers and from looks for ways to use new technologies