We love the old, cobbled streets we find in the cities around our planet. We admire the splendor of historic buildings from centuries ago. And at the same time, our past achievements and our current way of living are anything but guaranteed. To develop ourselves and keep what we treasure from the past, we must prepare for the future; what we have ahead is the most fluid and tumultuous time in the history of humanity. Never before has there been so much change. The only way to move into a future worth living in is to innovate and transform our societies, our organizations, our departments and teams, and, last but not least, ourselves. Organizations, and even societies, that do not embrace the current pace of innovation and the changes in our world will fail and disappear from the landscape, putting their employees out of work and the people they care for at risk. So we need new ways of doing.
And this book, uniquely, shows us how.
We wrote this book to create clarity on How to Create Innovation. At this point, the market is so saturated that it is hard to know who to trust. What practices should you use? How should you use them, and how does it all fit together? Our main objective was to bring together established practices that work. As a result, you will certainly recognize many of the things you have learned and come to treasure in the past, but you will also discover new concepts and strategies. Most importantly, you will, for the first time, see everything connected in one holistic framework.
On behalf of all authors and contributors of How to Create Innovation, we wish you a great journey.
Let’s go out and create a world worth living in.
―Stefan F. Dieffenbacher, Caroline Hüttinger, Susanne M. Zaninelli, Douglas Lines, and Andreas Rein