Beyond the Idea, Vijay Govindarajan
Beyond the Idea, Vijay Govindarajan
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Beyond the Idea
How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization

Author: Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Unabridged: 3 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2013


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling authors of Reverse Innovation and How Stella Saved the Farm distill more than a decade of exclusive research into one short, powerful, action-oriented book.

Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the world's best idea still faces a devilish challenge: it must build the business of tomorrow without endangering the business of today.

Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble are the world's leading authorities on the successful management of innovation. In Beyond the Idea, they distill more than a decade of research and insight into a practical, accessible, read-at-one-sitting handbook that offers invaluable guidance for anyone charged with making innovation happen: executives, managers, consultants, project leaders, and teams.

By offering specific action steps, Beyond the Idea extends the elegant conceptual insights from How Stella Saved the Farm, Govindarajan and Trimble's parable. Beyond the Idea shows exactly how to:

- Build a team with a very particular structure, one that makes it possible to simultaneously build something new and sustain what exists.

- Manage any innovation initiative as a disciplined experiment.

- Implement three distinct models for moving from ideas to action.

Beyond the Idea is an essential book for any business that recognizes that innovation always has been, and always will be, the key to long term growth and vitality.

About Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and founding director of the Tuck School’s Center for Global Leadership. He has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 corporations and speaks at conferences around the world. He is the co-author of Beyond the Idea and How Stella Saved the Farm. He lives in New Hampshire.

About Chris Trimble

Chris Trimble has dedicated more than ten years to studying a single challenge that vexes even the best-managed corporations: how to execute an innovation initiative. With Govindarajan he coauthored the New York Times bestseller Reverse Innovation (2012). He lives in Vermont.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on July 16, 2018

This is my 4th book by Govindarajan and Trimble. Here's how they connect: all of the books discuss how to manage innovation, and each approaches it in a different manner. 2010: "The Other Side of Innovation." Their most in-depth book provides step-by-step guidance for managing innovation. 2013: "How S......more

Goodreads review by Krishna on July 28, 2015

This book is about how to execute any innovation in any organisation.And the most important message Beyond the Idea is Innovation execution on unique discipline, its requires time, energy and distinct thinking. Author differentiated the Innovation and Performance Engine in the following ways. Innova......more

Goodreads review by Katie on April 27, 2018

Short and easily readable, with practical advice for successfully executing in different types of innovations, as well as how to manage innovation leaders best.......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on December 31, 2020

Quick read about innovation, I like the detail about special C teams and how they should function and be evaluated......more

Goodreads review by Charles on March 04, 2022

The authors warn you there will be no examples and why. Really made for a poker book.......more


Quotes

“This book is a defining work on how we invest in and engage in the future.” —William Green, Executive Chairman, Accenture on Reverse Innovation

“Unique and important work, hard-hitting examples, detailed and actionable steps, and clear explanations.” —Omar Ishrak, Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc. on Reverse Innovation

“The global community is now so networked that innovation can come from just about anywhere and make an impact everywhere.” —John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems on Reverse Innovation

“This elegant story, rich in insight into what it takes to make innovation happen, has already had tremendous impact in GE executive development programs and on key innovation projects.” —Stephen Liguori, Executive Director, Global Innovation and New Models, General Electric on How Stella Saved the Farm

“Govindarajan and Trimble have managed to do the unthinkable -- develop a case study that is both seriously thought-provoking and truly entertaining.” —Dolph Johnson, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Hasbro on How Stella Saved the Farm

“We have found How Stella Saved the Farm to be a very useful tool for raising the key challenges in organizing and executing innovation initiatives.” —James Euchner, VP, Global Innovation at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company on How Stella Saved the Farm

“Deere has already held innovation workshops based on Stella, with very positive results. This is a powerful, practical tool for learning and executive development.” —Mary Jones, Vice President Global Human Resources, Deere & Company on How Stella Saved the Farm

“At first glance, I was skeptical. By the end, I was blown away. In a quick, fun read I found brilliant simplicity, capturing best practices for enabling and managing innovation. I continue to recommend Stella to executives seeking to turn new ideas into material business outcomes.” —Roy Rosin, former Vice President of Innovation, Intuit on How Stella Saved the Farm