The Innovation Puzzle: Banish the Innovation Killers and Become an Emerging Champion

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Victor Gilsing

The Innovation Puzzle

Banish the Innovation Killers and Become an Emerging Champion

Victor Gilsing

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Routledge
03 March 2025

Business strategy; Management: leadership & motivation; Research & development management; Organisational theory & behaviour

Beyond a generic innovation toolkit, this book dissects the hidden biases and behavioral traps that too often doom innovation within companies to failure. It takes the reader on a journey to learn how to banish these innovation killers for good and turn their company into an innovation champion.

In The Innovation Puzzle, Professor Victor A. Gilsing reveals that in most cases, these outcomes cannot be blamed on a lack of funding or a failure to follow innovation gurus’ playbooks. Often, the real problem is that companies unwittingly build hidden barriers to innovation within themselves. From the systems they use to structure and monitor their business units to their hiring and promotion policies, not to mention their executives’ leadership styles. Many of these processes and practices underpinning their core business activities end up depriving innovation of the time, space, vision, talents, and perseverance it needs to succeed. Building on this insight, The Innovation Puzzle helps readers identify and remove these barriers within their own firms. Rather than one-size-fits-all solutions, this volume offers instructive real-world examples. It provides practical, visually rich, and easy-to-apply tools that guide readers toward the measures that will transform their company from a follower into a leader in innovation.

Perfect for executives and board members as well as for innovation talents and their managers, The Innovation Puzzle is the key that will unlock the expertise, innovation ambitions, and inspiration your firm needs to realize its true innovation potential and become an innovation champion.

By: Victor Gilsing
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781032874623
ISBN 10: 1032874627
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 03 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Experienced in both the private and public sectors and as an academic researcher, Professor Victor A. Gilsing’s expertise lies in understanding how companies can structurally boost their innovation performance and become world-class innovators. Over the years, Victor has received many international research awards, and he has long-standing experience in consulting to companies and in delivering keynotes and master classes to managers, executives, and non-executive directors, of corporates, start-ups, and scale-ups.

Reviews for The Innovation Puzzle: Banish the Innovation Killers and Become an Emerging Champion

The Innovation Puzzle explains why so many companies find innovation very important, know what they can and should do, but still fail. The book discusses both the sabotaging effect of deeper organizational barriers against innovation and also offers many easy-to-apply tools and insights to turn this hostile environment around, and make your company become future-ready and an unbeatable innovator in it is field. Professor Howard Yu, LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD, Lausanne It’s rare to find a book on innovation that isn’t a 'how to' book. But The Innovation Puzzle is different. Among the strengths of the book is that it helps you to understand what breeds of people are paramount at each phase of the innovation process. You’d better read it carefully, as some people you will depend on are surprisingly hard to identify, motivate, and retain. Hermen Hulst, CEO Studio Business Group, Sony Interactive Entertainment Victor’s book The Innovation Puzzle is a must-read for any business leader. His book delves into the key challenges to driving innovation within organizations, offering clear routes to overcome deeper organizational obstacles, and in a way ensuring they can be easily implemented in all organizations. Having followed his recommendations previously, I recommend this book to anyone looking to ensure their business innovates and thrives in a competitive landscape. Dr Sam O’Keefe - VP Global Technology Platforms, Avery Dennison Victor unlocks one of the least openly discussed causes of unsatisfactory success with embedding innovation: deeply rooted organizational biases and behaviors. He demystifies the invisible hurdles and provides practical guidance on how to turn these blocking biases and behaviors into more favorable conditions. Dr John Bell, CEO HighTechXL, former VP External Innovation Johnson & Johnson and Philips. Innovation and Partnering Expert.