Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Call for Innovation

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 1-14

3. Company Strategy

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 15-37

4. Innovation Frameworks

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 39-79

5. Change Frameworks

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 81-93

6. Digital Solutions and Trends

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 95-112

7. Continuous Learning

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 113-122

8. Focus and Expertise

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 123-135

9. The Innovation Process

   • Stijn Van Hijfte

   Pages 137-178

10. Concluding Remarks

    • Stijn Van Hijfte

    Pages 179-183

11. Back Matter

    Pages 185-188

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The call for innovation within both society and all sectors of enterprise at large grows louder every day. In order to achieve this, organizations need to attract talent with the insight and creativity necessary to be able to understand the needs of not only this generation, but also future generations. Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation introduces key frameworks that can be adapted to any business or team focused on innovation.

Some aspects that are crucial for an organization to become a center of innovation are change management, process mining, and overall company strategy. Author Stijn Van Hijfte also introduces you to newer techniques that are still making their way up the ladder to overall industry adoption. These include AI, blockchain, and intelligent automation. Van Hijfte also takes care to ensure you choose the right innovation strategy for your specific company goals, as opposed to solely showing off the latest industry trends within the topic.

Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation is perfect for business leaders, students, recruiters, and more. You will come away with insights about how to best prepare your team’s stakeholders for the changes that innovation brings. The mission and vision of your organization should always be promoting new ideas, but a roadmap is needed to implement them effectively. Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation is the guide you’ve been seeking.

What You Will Learn

• Discover key innovation and idea generation frameworks that can be molded to suit your organization
• Prepare stakeholders for the changes that will take place
• Choose the right strategy for the mission and vision of the company 
• Create an environment that actually promotes new ideas

Who This Book is For
Professionals that have an interest in innovation and want to have a high-level understanding of technologies and trends that could be useful in their search towards new solutions.

• Innovation
• idea generation
• ideation
• AI
• technology
• trends
• innovation strategy
• innovation management
• change management
• problem solving

• Gent, Belgium

  Stijn Van Hijfte

Stijn Van Hijfte has experience as a consultant, lecturer, and an innovation officer and has worked over the years with cloud, AI, automation, and blockchain technology. Since 2015 he has been experimenting and exploring the blockchain space, gaining deeper insight into the entire ecosystem. This insight ranges from setting up nodes and writing smart contracts, to the legal implications of GDPR, ICOs, and cryptocurrencies. Among others, he holds degrees in economics, IT, and data science. He currently works at Deloitte as a senior consultant and as a lecturer at Howest Applied University College. 

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