Table of Contents

The global innovation economy and strategic management
Traditional strategic management approaches and tools, and their challenges in handling rapid innovation and change
Shifting the mindset to strategic management for innovation
New strategic management approaches and processes for dynamic innovation capability
Strategic management toolbox for enhanced innovation capability
Leadership capabilities to enhance strategic organizational innovation

About the Author

THOMAS H. DAVENPORT
is one of the world's most influential business intellectuals and a best seller author. He is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, Director of Research at Babson Executive Education, and an Accenture Fellow. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in organizational behavior.

MARIUS LEIBOLD
is Professor in Strategy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and visiting professor at various universities in Europe and the USA. His research focuses on new business models and innovation for global competitiveness, incorporating strategic fitness, systemic innovation and paradoxical management approaches applied in various industries and companies. He has authored a number of articles and books in strategic management, and is a Director of the WISE program, a collaborative research program between academic and business organizations in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.

SVEN C. VOELPEL
is a Director of the research group WISE (Wisdom-Innovation-Strategy-Energy) and Professor of Business Administration at the Jacobs Center for Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, International University Bremen (IUB), Germany. Besides various professorships around the world he is also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University since 2001.

Reviews

PAUL ADLER, University of Southern California: "Innovation is the key challenge for business today, and this book offers a wonderfully insightful new strategic approach. Great analysis and an up-to-date selection of readings and cases."

NITIN NOHRIA, Harvard Business School:
"This is a unique book on strategy and strategizing in the innovation economy. Leaders and Executives in all organizations need to pay close attention to this book. This is the new direction for strategy in our 21st century, and Davenport, Leibold and Voelpel's book is the first available source."

HEINRICH V. PIERER, former CEO of Siemens AG:
"This book provides a new platform for strategic management approaches and tools, and I trust it will find a particular place in the field of strategic management for innovation, both in business practice and education."

JC SPENDER, Leeds University Business School:
"Based on wide ranging international inputs, the authors offer a superb strategic tool-kit. They take us beyond the Balanced Scorecard to their own Poised Scorecard, more flexible, multi-purposed and practical, and show us the potential of today's networked business eco-systems."