Best of HBR on Innovation: One Part Inspiration, Two Parts Discipline (HBR Article Collection)

HBR OnPoint collections include an overview and 3 full-text HBR articles, each with a synopsis and annotated bibliography. Flashes of genius, showers of brilliant ideas--it's intriguing to imagine that these are all your company needs to create blockbuster products and services. True, successful innovation does require inspiration. But that's barely half of the equation. It also requires discipline: rigorous, systematic ways to bring good ideas to profitable fruition. But balancing the inspiration/discipline equation isn't easy. And breakthrough products or services aren't the be-all/end-all of innovative thinking. Small, steady improvements to all your business practices can prove equally vital--and profitable. There is no one right way to balance the innovation equation. But the approach presented in this HBR OnPoint collection should inspire you to define your own disciplined method. The three Harvard Business Review articles in this collection: "The Discipline of Innovation" by Peter F. Drucker (HBR 1985 classic reprint R0208F), "Creativity Is Not Enough" by Theodore Levitt (HBR 1963 classic reprint R0208K), and "Tough-Minded Ways to Get Innovative" by Andrall E. Pearson (HBR 1988 classic reprint R0208H).