Built to Innovate, Ben M. Bensaou
Built to Innovate, Ben M. Bensaou
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Built to Innovate
Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company’s DNA

Author: Ben M. Bensaou, Karl Weber

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 9 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2021


Synopsis

It's no secret that continuous innovation is the key to seizing and maintaining the competitive edge in today's increasingly challenging business environment. Unfortunately, the process for achieving this holy grail of business has been a mystery—until now.

Built to Innovate delivers a proven system for building relentless innovation into your company's DNA. Professor and former dean of executive education at INSEAD and business innovation thought leader Ben M. Bensaou explores the essential practices of many of the world's most innovative organizations—including BASF, AkzoNobel, Sabanci Group, Recruit Holdings, Ecocem, Starwood Hotels, Domino's Pizza, Bayer, Marvel Studios, Allianz, and Fiskars—and demonstrates how you can leverage them in your own company. This practical guide shows you how to: build your execution and innovating engines; master the innovating perspective; launch the three processes of innovating; engage everyone in innovating; generate ideas from the front lines; empower coaches; create a culture of innovating; catalyze the innovating process; and keep the ideas flowing.

You'll learn how to drive innovating in product design and creative use of technology—as well as business activities, such as business model redesign, customer service, distribution, finance, talent development, and sales.

About Ben M. Bensaou

Ben M. Bensaou is a professor and former dean of executive education at INSEAD. As a business innovation consultant, he has helped companies like Allianz, Avis, BASF, ManpowerGroup, Toshiba, Heineken, AkzoNobel, Starwood, and Novartis build innovation into their corporate DNA. Bensaou has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, a research fellow at the Wharton School of Management, and a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deepak on November 10, 2023

"Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company's DNA" by Ben M. Bensaou is a compelling guide that provides valuable insights into fostering a culture of innovation within organizations. The author make a convincing case for the importance of innovation in today's compe......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 11, 2021

This book was Stevo's Business Book of the Week for the week of 10/10, as selected by Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet and Stevo's Novel Ideas. "Built to Innovate" provides everything you need to transform your organization into an innovating engine. Rather than reacting to the prospect of innov......more

Goodreads review by Jmac on February 16, 2022

A wonderfully generous book! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 February 2022 It's unusual for such a seasoned academic to write such an accessible book and indeed to do so in his second language. Bensaou does a magnificent job description of toggling between examples and frameworks and theories. The......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on November 13, 2021

Great ideas but they could be related in 20 pages. It’s overloaded with examples that often repeat. And like many business books are light on the messy details and formulaic in their telling of successes: Company A was doing bad then it adopted my innovation approach and suddenly did amazing!......more