Management Innovation in Context

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9:30 AM Monday October 8, 2007

Excerpted from "The Future of Management," by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen. Look for new excerpts weekly.

Innovation comes in many flavors: operational innovation, product innovation, strategy innovation, and, of course, management innovation. Each genre makes its own contribution to success, but if we were to array these various forms of innovation in a hierarchy, where higher tiers denote higher levels of value creation and competitive defensibility, management innovation would come out on top. Understanding why this is so is an important step in building your company’s commitment to management innovation, so let’s work our way up from the bottom.

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Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel is Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School; cofounder of Strategos, an international consulting company; and director of the Management Innovation Lab. He is the author of Leading the Revolution and coauthor of Competing for the Future, two landmark books that have appeared on every management best seller list. He has also written numerous articles for Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and many other business publications. Hamel lives in Northern California. For more, you can also visit garyhamel.com.