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Summary:

Driving Desired Futures addresses the question how do individuals in social systems achieve credibility for new ideas? What are the criteria that render the comprehension of new ideas more likely within a group of people with diverse sets of beliefs? What triggers management's attention to allocate resources to the development of new ideas? To address these questions, various authors discuss the structures and dynamics of developing new ideas.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; Contributors; The Emergence of the New (What); Introduction; Disruptive Innovation at the Eastman Kodak Company (Part I); Reality and Actuality; The Social Construction of Reality; A Model of Plausibility; Media
• The Everyday Tools of Reality Construction; Plans and the Future: Designing the Unpredictable; Innovation as Processes of Social Construction (How); Introduction; Disruptive Innovation at the Eastman Kodak Company (Part II); A Few Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Communication; What is Conversation? How Can We Design for Effective Conversation?
• Knowledge Creation and Social Networks in Corporate. Entrepreneurship: The Renewal of Organizational CapabilityImagining and Rationalizing Opportunities: Inductive Reasoning and the Creation and Justification of New Ventures; Strategy and Use of Metaphor; Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking; Innovation and Organizational Roles (Who); Introduction; Disruptive Innovation at the Eastman Kodak Company (Part III); Reflections on Innovation Processes in Organizations; The A.C.I.M.-Agenda: Adaptation-Creativity-Innovation-Management Quadruple as a New Resource; Innovation Networks.
• Strategizing Throughout the Organization: Managing Role Conflict in Strategic RenewalSelling Issues to Top Management; Oxymoron Organizational Innovation (Where); Introduction; Disruptive Innovation at the Eastman Kodak Company (Part IV); The Art of Innovation: Managing the Future of Organizations; Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging; Notes on the Role of Leadership & Language in Regenerating Organizations; New Mindsets, or: What can Change Managers Learn from Architects?

Contributors:

Shamiyeh, Michael

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Architecture, Modern

Architecture, Domestic — History — 20th century

Architecture, Domestic — History — 21st century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 25, 2014).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

NA500 .D75 2014

ISBNs:

9783038212843 (electronic bk.)
3038212849 (electronic bk.)
9783038215349 [Invalid]
1306430437 (ebk)
9781306430432 (ebk)

OCLC Numbers:

874163986

Other Control Numbers:

699701 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11316929