The effective management of an innovation process is widely recognized as an important pre-requisite for organisations competing in the current business environment, irrespective of size. Although front-end activities have now long been recognized as crucial for successful new product...

Few other managerial innovations have become popular as quickly as has business process reengineering (BPR); however, probably no other innovation has been interpreted in so many different ways either. This paper seeks to discover whether there is a conceptual core which both identifies and...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Challenge of Product Innovation -- 3. Managing Product Innovation: A Framework -- 4. Intelligence: Uncovering Innovation Opportunities Through Customer Involvement -- 5. Searching for Innovation Opportunities: Idea Generation and Technology Development -- 6. Product...

The challenges of generating Emotion-Focused product ideas -- Process creation: structuring the Emotion-Driven Innovation -- The language of Emotion-Driven Innovation -- Process development: testing the E-DI in academic environments -- Process validation: towards the application of E-DI in real...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Strategic Innovation Driven by Digital Transformation -- Chapter 3. Industry 4.0 and its Digital Paradigms -- Chapter 4. Industry 4.0 and the Emergent Business Models -- Chapter 5. The Integration of Digital Business Models: the Amazon Case Study -- Chapter...