Riding the innovation wave : learning to create value from ideas

Front Cover -- Riding the Innovation Wave -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Innovation - An Old Challenge -- The DNA of Innovation -- The 'One-Hundred Club' -- Three Key Elements -- Who Does the Innovating? -- Learning from History -- Introducing Hella -- Hella and Innovation -- Looking Back, Looking Forward - The Need for Dynamic Capability -- Learning to Manage Innovation -- Hella's Innovation Journey -- Further Resources -- Reflection Questions -- Notes -- 2 Hella's Innovation History -- In the Beginning … -- An Opportunity and an Entrepreneur… -- Crisis and Survival - Just -- Riding Rough Waters -- Another War, Back Down Again -- Riding the Waves of the 'Wirtschaftswunder' -- Maintaining Continuity - the Family Connection -- Internationalization -- Crisis Strikes Again -- Entrepreneurial Responsibility -- Hella in the 21st Century - Old Crises, New Storms -- Continuity in Innovation -- Opening up Their Innovation Game -- Process Innovation - Birth of the Hella Production System -- Looking to the Innovation Horizon -- Further Resources -- Reflection Questions -- Notes -- 3 Patterns of Innovation -- Hella's Innovation History -- Exploring Innovation Space - the 4Ps Framework -- Exploring Hella's Innovation Space -- Product Innovation -- Process Innovation - Rethinking How Hella Operates -- Position Innovation - Moving into New Markets -- 'Paradigm Innovation' - Rethinking the Business Model -- Exploring a New Innovation Landscape -- Further Resources -- Reflection Questions -- Notes -- 4 We are the Champions -- Competence Isn't Enough -- Milestones of Innovation -- Building Electronics into Hella's DNA -- The Long Road from Blinkers to Body Control Modules - and Beyond -- Innovation Model Innovation - 'Die Änderung' -- Climate Control -- Xenon - Another Example of Pioneering.