The Fast Path to Corporate Growth

Leveraging Knowledge and Technologies to New Market Applications

Marc H Meyer author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:7th Jun '07

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Fast Path to Corporate Growth cover

Every company can point to a growth strategy. Far fewer, however, systematically implement them; instead, they spend their time on incremental innovations, or rely on acquisitions. Still, organic, internal growth, accomplished through product line renewal and new service development, is essential to the long-term vitality of corporations across all industries. The FASTPATH to Growth takes on the challenge large corporations have in generating internal innovation--developing new product lines that address new market applications and provide the corporation with new streams of revenue. It integrates the key disciplines--new product strategy, user research, concept development and prototyping, market testing, and business modeling--needed for enterprise growth. The book illustrates its framework with in-depth examples of companies that have leveraged their core technologies to new markets and new types of uses in order to generate impressive results, including IBM, Honda, and Mars. Many of these examples contain templates that readers can use in their own projects. The book ends by addressing the human side of new market applications, providing advice on what executives and innovation team leaders must do to execute the steps of Meyers framework for new market applications development. This comprehensive management guide should appeal to practitioners in research and development, new business development strategists, and product managers, along with students in engineering management, innovation management, and corporate strategy courses that focus on technology industries.

Professor Meyer's Fast Path framework is an essential tool for developing and commercializing new product lines from within a corporation. We have used this approach at Masterfoods USA and have found it invaluable in creating the process and culture needed for new venture success. * Robert Gamgort, President Masterfoods USA *

ISBN: 9780195180862

Dimensions: 163mm x 240mm x 21mm

Weight: 608g

336 pages