Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation

Preface ix

Introduction xv

1 Management Systems for Innovation 1

2 Assessing Your Organization’s Capacity for Breakthrough Innovation 23

3 The Discovery Competency 51

4 Incubation: The Long and Winding Road 81

5 Acceleration: Gathering Steam and Building Critical Mass 117

6 The DNA Innovation System 151

7 Incorporating the DNA: The Role of the Orchestrator 185

8 Getting Started: Initiating and Maturing an Innovation Management System 215

9 The Innovation Function 259

Appendix A: Companies Participating in the Breakthrough Innovation Research Study 275

Appendix B: Assessing Your Firm’s Breakthrough Innovation Competency 279

Notes 305

Acknowledgments 315

About the Authors 319

Index 323