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Wide Lens What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss (Updated)

The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss (Updated)

By Ron Adner

How can great companies do everything right--identify real customer needs, deliver excellent innovations, beat their competitors to market--and still fail. The truth is that many companies fail because they focus too intensely on their own innovations, while neglecting the ecosystems on which their success depends.

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Book Information

Publisher: Portfolio
Publish Date: 06/25/2013
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781591846291
ISBN-10: 1591846293
Language: Eng

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November 27, 2012

The strategy + business best of business books list is always one of our favorites of the year—one we always look forward to—and this year's does not disappoint. The strength of the list is in it's breadth and flexibility. The categories always change slightly to reflect the important topics of the year, and they choose experts on those topics to pick the best books published in those categories. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

February 09, 2012

The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation by Ron Adner, Portfolio, 231 pages, $29. 95, Hardcover, March, 2012, ISBN 9781591844600 Of all that’s been written and espoused on innovation over the past several years, it seems a key consideration has often been overlooked, one that Dartmouth College professor Ron Adner has gleaned from years of studying the subject. Adner has now detailed his findings as well as his prescription for greater success at innovation in The Wide Lens, in which cites many examples of companies that failed to check the “innovation blind spot” of their innovation ecosystem and consequently failed with innovations that should have been wild successes. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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How can great companies do everything right--identify real customer needs, deliver excellent innovations, beat their competitors to market--and still fail? The truth is that many companies fail because they focus too intensely on their own innovations, while neglecting the ecosystems on which their success depends. In our increasingly interdependent world, winning requires more than just delivering on your own promises. It means ensuring that a host of partners--some visible, some hidden--deliver on their promises, too.

Ron Adner draws on over a decade of research and field testing to reveal the hidden structure of success, from Michelin's failed run-flat tires to Apple's path to market dominance. The Wide Lens offers a powerful new set of frameworks and tools that will multiply your odds of innovation success.

About the Author

Ron Adner, the author of The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss , is an award-winning professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

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