Conclusion

My purpose in writing this book was twofold. First, I wanted to demonstrate to the reader that many, many different aspects of corporate management practices influenced innovation performance. Second, I wanted to show how the most effective innovators used these corporate management practices to encourage innovation. Chapters 3 through 8 covered both these things. In those chapters, I showed that twenty different types of management tools can be used to impact innovation performance. (See Figure 9.1 for a summary of the twenty types of tools.) I also discussed how the most effective innovators use these tools.