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Where can a hospital apply principles from the airline sector? Cross-industry innovation is a clever way to jump-start your innovation efforts by drawing analogies and transferring approaches between contexts, beyond the borders of your own industry, sector, area or domain. Not invented here refers to the phenomenon of people blocking out ideas from the outside, it also indicates that there are beautiful alternatives everywhere just waiting to be introduced to your context. The potential of ideas and approaches from other areas is tremendous, still only very few organisations apply cross-industry innovation strategies in any kind of structured way. The book Not Invented Here provides you with cross-industry innovation strategies and tools to increase your match sensitivity’ (the ability to make more effective connections) and see the opportunities available to you. This inspirational, illustrated business book presents strategies & tools for cross-industry innovation. It emerged from hundreds of conversations with business leaders and innovators and is packed with ideas, approaches, and cases that you can apply in your own industry. |
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Ramon Vullings is a cross-industry expert, international keynote speaker, world traveller, business author on applied creativity & innovation, enthusiastic Master of Interaction, workshop & training facilitator and ideaDJ. |
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"Overall, the book is a practical yet delightful exploration of cross-industry innovation, with lots of insights and humour blended in. The authors also offer a number of creative word games to trigger out-of-the-box thinking and identify some disappearing objects and disappearing jobs as well as emerging jobs, eg. garbage designer, nostalgist, gamification designer, ideaDJ!" - www.yourstory.com “When two ïdea-DJ’s”grab the pen, the energy drenches the pages. In the bizlit genre, they tick all the right boxes: put s new spin on the diagrams, draw 2x2 matrices and give eyebrow-raising examples.” - Form Magazine Norway "Not invented here is spot on! It illustrates exactly what today’s companies and leaders need to do: to look outside and learn from others. This book provides great examples and practical tips to get started.” - Stan Steverink - Director Leadership Development, Hay Group Benelux "If you look only within your industry for best practices, youll find only what your competitors are already doing. To do better than competitors, you have to look beyond. In "Not Invented Here" Ramon and Marc masterfully unpack the process of borrowing and adapting ideas from outside your industry. A must read for innovation seeking managers.”- Niraj Dawar - author of TILT: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers, Professor of Marketing at Ivey Business School, Canada. |
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"Besides being inspiring, the book is well structured, actionable and great to read. It is a highly recommended reading for all those who want to learn how to get beyond the traditional approach to innovation for their business. Besides that the book provides valuable ideas for startups and entrepreneurs." |
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By: Ramon Vullings and Marc Heleven |