Karolin Frankenberger

Business Innovation is key to the continuing prosperity of firms and to the resolution of environmental and societal grand challenges alike. It has, therefore, become one of the core fields of academic inquiry of our times. It is, however, also an inherently inter-disciplinary subject, inviting contributions from a variety of disciplines. Due to their diverse backgrounds, scholars interested in business innovation frequently lack a "common language" and a shared base of knowledge to integrate their individual contributions effectively. This revised and updated edition starts with the fundamental considerations concerning the role of theories, different types of theories, and different forms of logical reasoning in this field. It goes on present seven different schools of thought about business innovation, before it concluding with the main theories currently used to study business innovation. 'Exploring the Field of Business Innovation' aims at making this domain more accessible to scholars irrespective of their background and career stage, fostering the inter-disciplinary debate, and inspiring researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles.

A strong business model is the bedrock of business success. But all too often we fail to adapt, clinging to outdated business models that are no longer promising the results we need. The Business Model Navigator allow you to innovate, test and implement new business models within your industry. Discover the idea of business model innovation, from structuring the process of innovation of a company’s business model to encouraging outside-the-box thinking. With expert authors, The Business Model Navigator combines learning research with evidence of high practical impact, allowing you to master the transformation journey and lead your business to success.

Verbessern Sie die Entscheidungen, die Sie tagtäglich treffen, mithilfe neuester neurowissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse drastisch! Täglich treffen wir Hunderte von Entscheidungen, von kleinen - wie die Frage, was wir heute anziehen und wie wir zur Arbeit fahren - bis hin zu großen - wie die Unternehmensstrategie und die Frage, ob ein Umstrukturierungsprogramm eingeleitet werden soll, das sich auf Tausende von Menschen auswirken kann. Studien zufolge verbringen Führungskräfte 40 Prozent ihrer Zeit damit, Entscheidungen zu treffen und die Wirksamkeit ihrer Entscheidungen bestimmt weitgehend die Ergebnisse der von ihnen geführten Unternehmen. In diesem Buch liefert ein Team renommierter Forscher und Unternehmensberater eine Anwendung der neuesten neurowissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse, um die schwierigsten Entscheidungen effektiv zu treffen - nämlich diejenigen, die wir in dynamischen Umgebungen treffen, in Situationen der Ungewissheit, wenn wir Ergebnisse vorhersagen müssen, uns aber relevante Informationen fehlen, die Zeit knapp ist und sich die Umgebung ständig verändert. Das Buch ist in drei Teile gegliedert. Im ersten Teil bietet es einen praktischen Rahmen für effektive Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden Ansätze zur effektiven Umsetzung dieser Entscheidungen erörtert, so dass der Wandel auf allen Ebenen, vom Einzelnen bis zur Organisation, bewältigt werden kann. Schließlich enthält das Buch Vorschläge, wie Führungskräfte die für die Entscheidungsfindung relevanten kognitiven Fähigkeiten bei sich selbst und bei ihren Mitarbeitern analysieren und verbessern können.

Dramatically improve the decisions you make every day using insights from the latest neuroscience We make hundreds of decisions daily, from small ones – such as what to wear today and how to drive to work – to big ones – such as the company strategy and whether to launch a restructuring program that may impact thousands of people. In business, studies suggest that company executives spend 40% of their time making decisions and that the effectiveness of their decisions largely drives the results of the companies that they lead. In Super Deciders: The Science and Practice of Making Decisions in Dynamic and Uncertain Times, a team of renown researchers and business advisors deliver an application of the latest advances in neuroscience to effectively making the most difficult decisions, those we make in dynamic environments, in situations of uncertainty when we need to predict outcomes, we’re missing relevant information, time is scarce, and the environment is constantly changing. The book is written in three parts. In the first part, the book offers a practical framework for making effective decisions under uncertainty. In the second part, the book discusses approaches to effectively implement those decisions, thus managing change at every level, from the individual to the organizational. Finally, the book develops suggestions on how leaders can diagnose and improve – in themselves and in the people they lead – the cognitive abilities relevant to decision-making. You’ll also find: An enlightening business narrative detailing the journey of a fictional leader of an international travel operator named Inuk.Six cases that put you into real-life situations of making difficult decisions and that help you assess your decision-making effectiveness.An accessible and fun introduction to the neuroscience of decision-making. Ideal for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Super Deciders is a can’t-miss decision-making playbook that you’ve been waiting for.

Nominiert von GetAbstract für den International Book Award 2021. Meistern Sie die Balance zwischen der Revitalisierung - und Digitalisierung - Ihres traditionellen Kerngeschäfts und dem Aufbau eines neuen digitalen Business! In Das Digital Transformer's Dilemma erfahren etablierte Unternehmen, wie sie ihr Kerngeschäft transformieren sowie gleichzeitig neue und innovative Produkte, Dienstleistungen und Geschäftsmodelle aufbauen können. Basis hierfür sind mehr als 100 Interviews mit Führungskräften großer, internationaler Unternehmen (wie Nestlé, Novartis, Volkswagen und BASF) und kleinerer Hidden Champions, außerdem zahlreiche inspirierende Fallstudien, sowie die eigenen Erfahrungen der Autoren. In dem Buch erläutern die Autoren, wie Unternehmen das schwierige Gleichgewicht zwischen der Revitalisierung - und Digitalisierung - des traditionellen Geschäfts und dem Aufbau eines neuen (digitalen) Geschäfts finden können. Dabei konzentriert sich das Werk auf die tatsächliche Umsetzung der digitalen Transformation und bietet viele konkrete Tipps, Tools und Handlungsanleitungen, die sowohl Führungskräfte als auch Projektmitarbeiter bei ihrer Arbeit unterstützen sollen.

Bring your company into the digital era without compromising your core business In The Digital Transformer's Dilemma: How to Energize Your Core Business While Building Disruptive Products and Services, the authors show companies how to go digital while also advancing their core business. The book emphasizes how to strike a difficult balance between establishing a new (digital) business and re-vitalizing – and digitizing – the legacy business. The core of the book is focused on the actual implementation of the digital transformation across both businesses, providing concrete tips, tricks, tools and action plans across six key dimensions: Crafting a flexible organizationUsing technology as a driverDesigning the necessary processesBuilding transformational leaders“Right-skilling” the workforce of the futureGalvanizing cultural change The Digital Transformer’s Dilemma is a very visual book, filled with dozens of engaging illustrations that bring the contained concepts to life on the page. Based on 100+ interviews with senior executives at leading companies (such as Nestlé, Novartis, Volkswagen, BNP Paribas, BASF and Michelin) and smaller hidden champions, numerous illuminating case studies, and the authors’ own experience from working in international management consulting and years of academic experience, the book highlights the fundamental principles required for executives and businesspeople to transform legacy organizations into digitally empowered companies.

A strong business model is the bedrock to business success. But all too often we fail to adapt, clinging to outdated business models that are no longer promising the results we need. This new edition builds on the well-known methodology of the first edition to allow you to innovate, test and implement new business models within your industry. Discover the idea of business model innovation, from structuring the process of innovation of a company’s business model to encouraging outside-the-box thinking. With expert authors, The Business Model Navigator combines learning research with evidence of high practical impact, allowing you to master the transformation journey and lead your business to success.

Presenting a broad literature review of scholarly work in the area of Business Model Innovation, this new book analyses 50 management theories in the context of BMI to yield valuable new insights. Research on BMI is still in its infancy and has so far proved to be more than just a sub-discipline of strategy or innovation research. Exploring the field of Business Innovation demonstrates the importance of the discipline as a more specialized management research field and offers new understandings of this important subject. It presents ‘grand theories’ that will help researchers approach BMI through a different angle and describes business models as phenomena, enabling readers to understand their patterns and mechanisms. Reviewing the most important academic work on the subject over the last 15 years, the authors aim to open up the debate and inspire researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles.

Presenting a broad literature review of scholarly work in the area of Business Model Innovation, this new book analyses 50 management theories in the context of BMI to yield valuable new insights. Research on BMI is still in its infancy and has so far proved to be more than just a sub-discipline of strategy or innovation research. Exploring the field of Business Innovation demonstrates the importance of the discipline as a more specialized management research field and offers new understandings of this important subject. It presents ‘grand theories’ that will help researchers approach BMI through a different angle and describes business models as phenomena, enabling readers to understand their patterns and mechanisms. Reviewing the most important academic work on the subject over the last 15 years, the authors aim to open up the debate and inspire researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles.