Open Source Startup

Unit 20: Managing Innovation

Key Takeaways

• Understand how to manage innovation within a startup business
• Understand how to identify and design disruptive innovations
• Understand the impediments to innovation within startup organizations

Readings

• Innovator’s Dilemma
• Chapter 5: Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
• Chapter 10: The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
• The Startup Equation
• Chapter 16: Always be Innovating
• Meaningful: The Story of Ideas that Last
• Where Can You Take the Customer?
• The Innovation Trifecta
• Characteristics of Disruptive Innovations
• Organization Theory and Design
• Innovation and Change
• The Innovator’s Solution
• Is your organization capable of disruptive growth?
• The role of senior executives in leading new growth
• The Knowing-Doing Gap
• When fear prevents acting on knowledge
• When measurement obstructs good judgment
• Turning knowledge into action
• Inspired
• Chapter 65: Top Reasons for Loss of Innovation

Deliverables

• Identify the key disruptive innovations within your startup’s core product
• Determine guidelines for building an innovative culture at your startup
• Create a cheat sheet of red flags that may impede innovation at your startup