Inspire to Innovate

Contents......Page 9
List of figures, tables and boxes......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
1 Innovation in Asia......Page 15
Race to the top … or the bottom?......Page 16
Innovation: the way forward......Page 20
What can this book do for you?......Page 22
What is innovation?......Page 26
How do you manage innovation?......Page 29
So what?......Page 40
What did we learn from the case files?......Page 42
Confirming these hypotheses through a large survey......Page 49
Results from the survey......Page 52
What do we do with these results?......Page 56
Conclusion......Page 58
4 Creating new organizations in Asia for the new challenges......Page 60
Unlearning past truths......Page 61
Making a mental shift......Page 65
Stimulating creativity......Page 69
Conclusion......Page 75
Asian companies have to develop strategies to overcome the distance to sophisticated markets......Page 77
Asian companies may also find sophisticated niche markets in their own back yard......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 93
Technical infrastructure......Page 95
Human resources......Page 97
Financial infrastructure......Page 106
Conclusion......Page 110
Illegal imitation......Page 112
Strategies for change......Page 119
Conclusion......Page 130
8 Overcoming the underdog mentality......Page 131
The perception in industrialized countries that Asian products are poor quality......Page 132
Even Asians perceive local products to be inferior......Page 135
Success in many industries requires activism in setting international standards......Page 138
Perceptions are created by the media: manage them!......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 143
9 What to do next?......Page 145
Discovering the hurdles to innovate......Page 146
Not all managers feel the same about these hurdles......Page 147
A quick summary of our observations......Page 149
And now it is up to you......Page 155
Appendix: List of case studies......Page 156
C......Page 157
F......Page 158
I......Page 159
N......Page 160
S......Page 161
W......Page 162