Total Innovation Management - Introduction

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Total Innovation Management

Theory and Practice

https://doi.org/10.1142/12118 | July 2023

Pages: 528

By (author): Qingrui Xu (Zhejiang University, China)

https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12118#t=toc

The Technological and  Competitive environments of the new century require enterprises to implement total innovation 

Since the 1990s,  a tide of new scientific and technological revolutions featuring the universal application of IT technologies and the Internet has led to a fundamental reform of the environment for survival and development, operating objectives and models of enterprises. In the networking environment, the information interaction capability has been greatly improved, thus enabling information to break through space-time limitations and providing enterprises with good material and technical support for the implementation of total innovation management (TIM). 

It is embodied in the following aspects: Information can be distributed and transferred among different regions, functional departments and positions, and all employees within an organization, thus providing employees involved in research, development, production, manufacturing and management with information and relevant knowledge necessary for implementing total innovation.

Information can  also be sufficiently shared with external suppliers, consumers, partners and competitors at a lower cost, thus technically supporting the innovation based on rapid and continuous integration of internal and external resources of an enterprise, even its global resources.  With economic globalization and the vigorous development of e-business and networking transactions, the boundaries of enterprises become increasingly blurred. 

To remain competitive in the market, enterprises have to respond to the overall demands of consumers faster than their competitors, alter the existing innovation management modes, realize the synergy effects between technology and non-technology elements, and fully mobilize employees from all departments such as production, manufacturing, marketing and services to innovate whenever and wherever possible. Only in such a manner can enterprises improve the efficiency of developing new products, continuously expand their market shares and obtain great profits.

 In the framework of total innovation management, total-round innovation is the content, total-involvement innovation is the subject, and total space-time innovation is the form of realization.

As Rui-Min Zhang said, “the world is my human resources department, and the world is my research and development department”. Each of Haier's research and development centers is required to rely on the local advantages to carry out their own innovation, committed to research and development of industry-leading products

The business mode in the Internet era requires zero distance from users. The  “end to end”  distance has to be zero.  One end refers to internal employees, while the other end is users. For this reason, Haier puts forward the transformation from “customer” to “user”, there is similarity between two words, but the meanings are very different. Customers may only have one transaction with the enterprise, who are just the consumers of the product terminal, while users will participate in the design and experience of the product, and they become the designers, producers and consumers of the product. Haier attaches great importance to user innovation and puts forward the concepts such as “user stickiness”, “user multiplier”, etc., hoping to promote the improvement of Haier's innovation capability with the help of the wisdom of users. Among them, Haier's COSMOPlat is an intelligent manufacturing system focusing on user innovation and user value,.

Source - Haier Innovation path, Qingrui xu

Application of Total Innovation Management to Leverage Innovation Capabilities of Chinese Small & Medium Sized Enterprises 

Final Technical Report Submitted to International Development Research Centre (IDRC) by Research Center for Innovation and Development (RCID) - 135 pages

Date of Submission: March, 2010 Grant No.: 104044-001 

RCID (ZJU) Research Team #1: XU Qingrui (Project Leader), SHOU Y.Y. (Project Coordinator), and others.

https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstreams/ab1d0d89-e595-42ae-b39e-9ee5c613484e/download

Research

Open access

Published: 19 November 2021

Strategic study of total innovation management and its relationship with marketing capabilities in palm conversion and complementary industries

Neda Baniasadi, Davoud Samari, Seyyed Jamal Farajollah Hosseini & Maryam Omidi Najafabadi 

Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship volume 10, Article number: 46 (2021)

https://innovation-entrepreneurship.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13731-021-00179-z

Total Innovation Management

https://ceopedia.org/index.php/Total_Innovation_Management

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Total Innovation Management: Theory And Practice

Qingrui Xu

World Scientific, 3 Mar 2023 - Business & Economics - 528 pages

This book is the research report of the 'Construction of Theory and Formation Mechanism of Total Innovation Management (TIM)' (Program No. 70372018), a program funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. This program aims to discuss and analyze, under the general trend of indigenous innovation, how enterprises construct indigenous innovation capability through total innovation management and to offer enterprises theoretical foundations and practical guidance to develop themselves towards indigenous innovation.The research results are not only the results of a three-year long research but also the reflection of the accumulated experiences of our research center in the field of technology innovation for nearly 40 years. In the field of technology innovation, we have experienced three distinct phases, namely: secondary innovation, portfolio innovation and total innovation.Total innovation is the main characteristic of an innovation-based enterprise. Creating an innovation-oriented enterprise by constructing a total innovation system is the approach that successful foreign enterprises use to move towards excellence and also the only way that Chinese enterprises have to take to become innovation-oriented enterprises that leapfrog in development.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=6iG_EAAAQBAJ

Ud. 21.1.2025

Pub. 12.1.2025

Total Quality Management (TQM) - Principles and Practices

Total quality management (TQM)

First introduced by Armand Feigenbaum in the 1950s and then developed and refined by others (including Crosby, Deming, Ishikawa and Juran), TQM became defined as:

An effective system for integrating the quality development, quality maintenance and quality improvement efforts of the various groups in an organisation so to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allows for full customer satisfaction.

(Feigenbaum, 1986: 96)

The TQM philosophy stresses the following points:

● meeting the needs and expectations of customers;

● covering all the parts of the organisation;

● everyone in the organisation is included;

● investigating all costs related to quality (internal and external);

● getting things right by designing in quality;

● developing systems and procedures that support quality improvements; and

● developing a continuous process of improvement.

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●  meeting the needs and expectations of customers;

Meeting expectations is difficult: as the quality level of products improves this, in turn, increases customer expectations. 

Innovation in the ways to achieve what the customer expects in the combination of product and service provided is one way to gain sustainable advantage over your competition.

●  everyone in the organisation is included;

For a TQM approach to be successful, all the staff in all departments have to be 

involved. Quality is the responsibility of everyone and not some other manager or 

department. Quality and employee improvements are, therefore, inextricably linked 

and should be part of a continuous cycle. If a modest innovative and improvement 

cycle continues, by embedding the approach in the culture of the organisation, the 

long-term and total result may exceed that of a radical solution. The ‘knowledge’ of 

the organisation has thereby increased. No organisation has the ability to recruit 

and retain all the very best brains and operation managers need to recognise that 

they need to exploit the skills and enthusiasm of all their people. The impact of 

small, relatively easy to achieve, improvements can be very positive. Much of the 

improvement in the reliability of cars over the past 20 years has been attributed to a 

very large number of incremental improvements initiated by thousands of employees in all the car manufacturing companies and their suppliers.

TQM, with its continuous improvement, employee involvement and process ownership, has shown itself to be an effective policy in managing organisations, not least because of the enthusiastic implementation (team building).

Ref: Innovation Management by Paul Trott.

Core Principles of TQM (Another set)

Customer Focus: The customer reigns supreme. Organizations must consistently strive to understand and fulfill customer needs and expectations. This requires a commitment to listening to customers, gathering feedback, and using it to guide decision-making and improvement efforts.

Similar to  ●  meeting the needs and expectations of customers;

Leadership Involvement:  Leaders are responsible for setting the tone, vision, and direction for quality, fostering an environment conducive to employee participation, and driving the organization towards continuous improvement. Leadership commitment is the catalyst for a successful TQM implementation.

Total Employee Involvement: TQM recognizes that every employee has a role in achieving quality objectives. Empowering and equipping employees through training and development, encouraging participation in problem-solving, and fostering a culture of teamwork are essential. This principle transforms every employee into an advocate for quality.

Similar to  ●  everyone in the organisation is included;

Process-Centric Approach: By focusing on processes rather than outcomes alone.  Organizations must identify, document, and optimize critical processes to reduce variability, eliminate waste, and improve performance. This process-centric approach ensures that improvements are sustainable.  TQM emphasizes efficiency and effectiveness.

Similar to ●  getting things right by designing in quality [in the processes];  

Continuous Improvement:  “Kaizen,” continuous improvement is a relentless pursuit of perfection. TQM instills a mindset where processes are regularly evaluated and refined. This requires adopting methodologies like Six Sigma, Lean, and the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle to systematically address inefficiencies.

Similar to  ●  developing systems and procedures that support quality improvements; and

●  developing a continuous process of improvement.

Fact-Based Decision Making: In TQM, decisions are grounded in analysis rather than intuition. By leveraging tools such as statistical process control (SPC), organizations can make informed decisions, predict trends, and benchmark performance against objectives, ensuring that improvements are evidence-based.

Integrated Systems: TQM requires an organization-wide approach, where various functions and processes work in concert towards shared objectives. This necessitates the alignment of quality goals with business strategies and the integration of systems to ensure seamless communication and collaboration.

Similar to ●  covering all the parts of the organisation;

Conceptualizing, Promoting, Financing and Managing Startup - Protecting Intellectual Property

 2025 India National Productivity Week - 12 - 18 February Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

The theme for Productivity Week 2025 provides a crucial platform to address the interconnected challenges and opportunities related to innovation, intellectual property (IP), and productivity within the Indian startup ecosystem.

For industrial engineers innovation and productivity are important themes to focus on. IEs have to organize events, participate in the event actively and promote industrial engineering as the department, function and discipline to promote productivity through innovation.

I am collecting background material to support industrial engineers in preparing for the events of the week.

Background Material - 2025 India National Productivity Week - February 12- 18, Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/01/background-material-2025-india-national.html

Support for Sustainability Startups

Idea to Implemented Venture including Finance Support

Wipro Ideas to Impact Challenge

https://ideastoimpact.co.in/

From Ideas to Impact

Alto University, Finland

https://www.aalto.fi/en/advancing-entrepreneurship-and-innovations/from-ideas-to-impact

From Idea to Impact: Survival Guide for Successful Products

May-Jun. 2024, pp. 20-25, vol. 41

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10493183/1VTvdeMCF6o

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Protecting Intellectual Property

https://www.svb.com/startup-insights/startup-strategy/protecting-intellectual-property-startups/

https://www.startupdecisions.com.sg/blog/ip-protection-importance-for-startups

https://legacypartners.in/insights-and-research/intellectual-property-protection-guide-for-startups

https://www.novagraaf.com/en/insights/guide-intellectual-property-protection-startups

The Role of Intellectual Property Right in the Success of Startups

The Intellectual Property Rights is a crucial for any startups, it provide the essential protection for the innovation and the fostering the competitive edge.

https://articles.manupatra.com/article-details/The-Role-of-Intellectual-Property-Right-in-the-Success-and-Growth-of-Startups

https://www.wipro.com/blogs/sudipta-ghosh/relevance-of-intellectual-property-for-startups/

https://www.startupdecisions.com.sg/blog/ip-protection-importance-for-startups

Search  Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups

Innovation Management - Research, Development, Design and Commercialization

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The theme for Productivity Week 2025 provides a crucial platform to address the interconnected challenges and opportunities related to innovation, intellectual property (IP), and productivity within the Indian startup ecosystem.

For industrial engineers innovation and productivity are important themes to focus on. IEs have to organize events, participate in the event actively and promote industrial engineering as the department, function and discipline to promote productivity through innovation.

I am collecting background material to support industrial engineers in preparing for the events of the week.

Background Material - 2025 India National Productivity Week - February 12- 18, Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/01/background-material-2025-india-national.html

What is innovation management?

Innovation management is the process of taking innovative ideas from their inception to implementation.

There are, generally, a few steps to innovation management:

Step one: topic ideation and generation

Arguably the most important stage — which we’ll get into a little more later — is turning a workspace into an innovation ecosystem. Any organization that encourages employees to think creatively, work on passion projects, and collaborate with coworkers is going to find they have a competitive advantage 

https://online.stanford.edu/guide-innovation-management

Steps 

one: Idea generation

two: recording and sharing 

three: innovation evaluation

four: organize and implement

Innovation Management - Wikipedia Article

Innovation management is a combination of the management of innovation processes, and change management. It refers to product, manufacturing, supply chain process,  business process, marketing and organizational innovation. Innovation management is the subject of ISO 56000 series standards being developed by ISO TC 279.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_management

2017

May

HOW TO APPLY LEAN THINKING IN INNOVATION, PRODUCT AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
Matti Perttula

Lean production seeks to increase flow (not resource) efficiency by reducing waste. Flow efficiency is calculated by dividing added value time with total time. The usual situation is that companies focus on resource efficiency rather than flow efficiency of a certain project.

 Flow efficiency is  typically lower in R&D compared to production.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-apply-lean-thinking-innovation-product-service-perttula-dsc--1/

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth

David J. Teece

OUP Oxford, 26 Mar 2009 - Business & Economics - 302 pages

How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible assets relevant to satisfying customer needs, and which cannot be readily replicated by competitors. Enterprises with strong dynamic capabilities are intensely entrepreneurial. They not only adapt to business ecosystems; they also shape them through innovation, collaboration, learning, and involvement. David Teece was the pioneer of the dynamic capabilities perspective. It is grounded in 25 years of his research, teaching, and consultancy. His ideas have been influential in business strategy, management, and economics, and are relevant to innovation, technology management, and competition policy. Through his consultancy and advisory work he has also brought these ideas to bear in business and policy making around the world. This book is the clearest and most succinct statement of the core ideas of dynamic capabilities. Teece explains their genesis, application, and how they offer an alternative approach to much conventional strategic thinking grounded in simplistic and outdated understandings of industrial organizations and the foundations of competitive advantage. Accessibly written and presented, it will be an invaluable and stimulating tool for all those who want to understand this important contribution to strategic thinking, be they MBA students, academics, managers, or consultants.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Db90ezzS1mYC 

Protection of intellectual property is mentioned in the first chapter itself.

Dynamic capabilities are capabilities to improve the current assets created by the existing capabilities.

Competition decreases the advantages of  the current assets. Dynamic capabilities increase the advantages of the firm's assets.  

Related LinkedIn profiles

Munish Sudan

Head, Intellectual Property & External Research Collaborations

TATA Steel

https://www.linkedin.com/in/munish-sudan-6587b618/

Creating something new is only half the battle. Without a strategy to capture and profit from your invention, it's essentially worthless. Ignoring intellectual property protection puts you at a significant disadvantage from the start. True victory lies not just in the invention itself, but in harvesting its rewards, capturing its value, and securing your rightful place in the innovative landscape.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/munish-sudan-6587b618_pharma-biotech-intellectualproperty-activity-7274410520848277504-P0RY   

Innovartion Management Evolution Map

https://www.thedigitaltransformationpeople.com/channels/strategy-and-innovation/the-innovation-management-theory-evolution-map/

Economics of Science and Technology

Jeffrey Parker, Reed College

Fall 2011

Interesting Readings on Innovation, Technology, Productivity etc.

https://www.reed.edu/economics/parker/f11/354/readings.html

Nathan Rosenberg

Stanford University | SU · Department of Economics

REsearch Gate Papers - Very important

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nathan-Rosenberg-2

Ud. 2.1.2025

Pub. 29.5.2017

Knowledge Related capabilities - Innovation performance - Intellectual Property Creation

 

International Business Review, Volume 32, Issue 2, April 2023, 101866

Innovation performance: The effect of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities in cross-country innovation ecosystems

Jeandri Robertson, Albert Caruana, Caitlin Ferreira 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593121000731

Previous conceptualizations of KBDC in literature.

Author(s) Conceptualized Dimensions

Khaksar et al. (2020) knowledge acquisition, knowledge generation, knowledge combination

Monferrer et al. (2015) adaptive capability, absorptive capability, innovative capability

Han and Li (2015) knowledge sensing capacity, knowledge seizing capacity, knowledge reconfiguring capacity

Denford (2013) knowledge creation, knowledge integration, knowledge reconfiguration, knowledge replication, knowledge development, knowledge assimilation, knowledge synthesis, knowledge imitation

Zheng et al. (2011)

KBDC - knowledge-based dynamic capabilities

Open Innovation in Steel Industry

2025 India National Productivity Week - 12 - 18 February Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

The theme for Productivity Week 2025 provides a crucial platform to address the interconnected challenges and opportunities related to innovation, intellectual property (IP), and productivity within the Indian startup ecosystem.

For industrial engineers innovation and productivity are important themes to focus on. IEs have to organize events, participate in the event actively and promote industrial engineering as the department, function and discipline to promote productivity through innovation.

I am collecting background material to support industrial engineers in preparing for the events of the week.

Background Material - 2025 India National Productivity Week - February 12- 18, Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/01/background-material-2025-india-national.html

 

https://brasil.arcelormittal.com/en/arcelormittal/innovation

https://www.tatasteel.com/newsroom/press-releases/india/2023/tata-steel-announces-winners-of-its-open-innovation-programme-materialnext-4/

https://www.tatasteel.com/media/newsroom/press-releases/india/2024/tata-steel-announces-the-winners-of-its-flagship-open-innovation-programme-materialnext-50/

https://www.tataworld.com/news/openinside/tata-steel-announces-the-winners-of-its-flagship-open-innovation-programme-materialnext

https://www.tataworld.com/news/openinside/tata-steel-launches-the-4th-edition-of-its-mega-open-innovation-event-materialnext

https://tatasteel.tatainnoverse.com/CompanyAboutus/63fa2e864478f488

https://www.pittini.it/en/innovation/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S219985312200734X

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/tata-steel-launches-4th-edition-of-open-innovation-event-materialnext-11669457449256.html

https://www.greyb.com/blog/innovations-in-steel-decarbonization/

https://www.nims.go.jp/eng/press/2017/06/201706300.html

https://open-innovation.eitrawmaterials.eu/challenges/anglo-american-innovation/

https://www.jswsteel.in/steel-future-how-innovative-manufacturers-are-shaping-tomorrows-world

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/metals/publications-and-thought-leadership/assets/pwc-global-innovation-survey-metals-report.pdf

https://swisssteel-group.com/en/group/innovation

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-leading-companies-using-open-innovation-gateway-startups-mishra-4rmzc

https://www.wirecable.in/global-wires-india-tata-steel-innovation/

https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/new-steel-manufacturing-companies/

https://singapore.angloamerican.com/our-stories/novation-challenge-aims-to-help-transform-the-steel-industry

Tata Steel

Munish Sudan 

Innovation & IP Management, TATA Steel

XLRI Jamshedpur

Jharkhand, India  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/munish-sudan-6587b618/

Ud. 4.1.2025

Pub. 2.1.2025

Enhancing Intellectual Property of a Firm, Organization or Company

 2025 India National Productivity Week - 12 - 18 February Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

The theme for Productivity Week 2025 provides a crucial platform to address the interconnected challenges and opportunities related to innovation, intellectual property (IP), and productivity within the Indian startup ecosystem.

For industrial engineers innovation and productivity are important themes to focus on. IEs have to organize events, participate in the event actively and promote industrial engineering as the department, function and discipline to promote productivity through innovation.

I am collecting background material to support industrial engineers in preparing for the events of the week.

Background Material - 2025 India National Productivity Week - February 12- 18, Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/01/background-material-2025-india-national.html

https://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/

Enhancing the Intellectual Property Activities in the Firm Base in Ireland

15th June 2015  |   Reports, Independent Reports

https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/enhancing-the-intellectual-property-activities-in-the-firm-base-in-ireland.html

Fueling Competitive Advantage with the Power of Intellectual Property

Dr. Shweta Singh

Economic Times Most Inspiring Women Leader 2023-24 | Times40Under40 | IP Attorney | Entrepreneur, Speaker & Author | Founder of Ennoble IP | Championing Innovation & Intellectual Property Across Sectors

May 15, 2023

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fueling-competitive-advantage-power-intellectual-property-singh/