Management of the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation

Conceptual Part: Managing the Unmanageable: The Fuzzy Front End of Innovation.- Structuring the Front End of Innovation.- Integrating Customers at the Front End of Innovation.- Out of Bounds: Cross-Industry Innovation Based on Analogies.- Trend Scanning, Scouting and Foresight Techniques.- Crowdsourcing as an Innovation Tool.- Revolutionizing the Business Model.- Managing the Intellectual Property Portfolio.- Applying Cross-Industry Networks in the Early Innovation Phase.- Dancing with Ambiguity: Causality Behavior, Design Thinking, and Triple-Loop-Learning.- Leveraging Creativity.- A Design Perspective on Sustainable Innovation.- Practical Cases: 3M: Beyond the 15% Rule.- ABB: Integrating the Customer.- Bayer: Strategic Management of the Early Innovation Phase.- BGW: Partnering the Outside-in Process - The Expert Innovation Journey.- Emporia: The Merits of Online Idea Competitions.- Evonik Industries - Managing Open Innovation.- Case: Google Ventures.- Idea Generation in the Consumer Business at Henkel.- Crowdsourcing - How Social Media and the Wisdom of the Crowd Change Future Companies.- Building a Bridge from Research to the Market: IBM's Industry Solutions Labs.- The MINI Countryman: Successful Management of the Early Stage in a Cooperative Product Development Environment.- Controlling the Early Innovation Phase at Autoneum.- SAP: Bringing Economic Viability to the Front End of Innovation.- Sprint Radar: Community-Based Trend Identification.- Landis+Gyr: Designing and Analyzing Business Models in Value Networks.- voestalpine Anarbeitung: Commercialization Framework for Technology Development Projects.- Volkswagen: Open Foresight at the Front End of Research Innovation.- Fuzzy Front End of Innovation: Quo Vadis?

Prof. Dr. Oliver Gassmann ist Professor für Technologiemanagement und Direktor des Instituts für Technologiemanagement an der Universität St. Gallen.