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by: Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781578519316
ISBN: 1578519314
Label: Harvard Business School Press
Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Sales Rank: 119658
Studio: Harvard Business School Press
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The secrets of successful idea practitioners change management. Reengineering. Knowledge management. Major new management ideas are thrown at today's companies with increasing frequency - and each comes with evangelizing gurus and eager-to-assist implementation consultants. Only a handful of these ideas will be a good fit for your organization. Choose the right idea at the right time and your company can become more efficient, more effective, and more innovative. Choose the wrong one - or jump on the right bandwagon too late - and your company could fall hopelessly behind. Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak say that some managers have found ways to improve their odds of success in the risky but essential game of idea management. In 'What's the Big Idea?, they introduce a largely unsung class of managers they call - idea practitioners - individuals who do the real work of importing and implementing new ideas into businesses.While gurus reap most of the credit when big ideas take flight, Davenport and Prusak's research reveals that idea practitioners actually play the most important role: they turn the right ideas into action. Drawing from decades of consulting, academic, and business experience and from their novel study of more than 100 of these critical change leaders, 'What's the Big Idea?' offers tools and frameworks for: assessing the merits of the top business gurus; scanning and tracking emerging ideas in the marketplace; distinguishing promising ideas from rhetoric; refining ideas to suit your organization's particular needs; packaging and selling the idea internally; and ensuring successful implementation.Davenport and Prusak prove that there are no faddish management ideas - only faddish ways of adopting them. Encouraging managers to embrace the power of ideas while avoiding the hype that often accompanies them, this pragmatic guide shows how passion and reason combine to build innovative companies.
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Rating:  - Limited Practical Use
The general overall structure of the first half of this text is sound and provides some food for thought to individuals trying to understand the psyche of creators and practitioners. Where this book shines is that it correctly points out that there are those that create, those that implement, and those that sustain any given idea, and that to be successful, a company needs a good dose of the second variety.
However, the second half of the book spends a lot of time trying to determine ... Read More
Rating:  - A pragmatic guide of shaping organizational innovation
Ideas are a major ingredient of innovation; Davenport & Prusak has done a great job in illustrating the dyanmic of ideas in organizational context, as well as how managers & leaders can effectively capitalize on business & management ideas. There are a couple sections in 'What's The Big Idea' that I enjoyed very much: An interview with Steve Kerr, and a list of the top 200 business gurus (with the underlying ranking mechanism) in the appendix.
Rating: - Enjoyable read for the idea practictioner and inspiring guru
This book was a great read discredited in chapter 8. The authors did a fantastic job summarizing what makes ideas work in an organization and the business model of business gurus. Their writing style was very readable, entertaining and enjoyable making this a good read that is easily recommendable. However, in chapter 8 they speak to close to their history and represent a view of knowledge management that may not be shared by all readers. One sentence highlighting that in a chapter that is otherwise ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent read
A most interesting and delightfully opinionated book is the latest offering from Tom Davenport and Larry Prusack. Easily digested, this book attempts to `out-meta' the competition in the game of management idea mindshare, by giving a framework by which other ideas are evaluated for their applicability to your organization. `He who owns the process wins' is an oft-quoted cliché at ManyWorlds.com and this book makes a good claim for the process. But more seriously, it does introduce some important (dare ... Read More
Rating: - Great Message -- But Mavericks are Targets in a Sick Culture
Thomas Davenport is now officially one of my "heroes" by championing the cause of us "idea introducers" and "boundary spanners". Unfortunately, being one of these people myself, I find that companies with an unhealthy culture (and with the associated weak/passive H.R. dept that perpetuate this sickness), ultimately cannot innovate.
Their Mavericks (also known as "the man in the brown suit") get laid-off, fired, or strategically bumped out of the way. And instead, go along to get along behavior ... Read More
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