NOT INVENTED HERE: 7 STRATEGIES FOR CROSS-INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Where can a hospital apply principles from the airline sector?
How can a car manufacturer use tools from the video game industry?
What can an event organiser learn from the railways?

Cross-industry
innovation is a clever way to jump-start your innovation efforts by
drawing analogies and transferring approaches between contexts, beyond
the borders of your own industry, sector, area or domain.

Not invented here refers to the phenomenon of people blocking out ideas from the outside,
it also indicates that there are beautiful alternatives everywhere just
waiting to be introduced to your context. The potential of ideas and
approaches from other areas is tremendous, still only very few
organisations apply cross-industry innovation strategies in any kind of
structured way. The book Not Invented Here provides you with
cross-industry innovation strategies and tools to increase your match
sensitivity’ (the ability to make more effective connections) and see
the opportunities available to you.
With the chapters The art of
questioning, Someone else has solved your problem, Inspiring industries
& smart sectors, Your business challenges and many more this book
opens up interesting new perspectives and is a significant source of
major innovative steps.

This inspirational, illustrated business
book presents strategies & tools for cross-industry innovation. It
emerged from hundreds of conversations with business leaders and
innovators and is packed with ideas, approaches, and cases that you can
apply in your own industry.
The authors, Ramon Vullings & Marc
Heleven, would like to invite you to this quest called cross-industry
innovation, learning from other sectors, not just to think outside the
box -but even more importantly- to think outside of your industry. Ramon
& Marc hope to inspire and enable you by developing your match
sensitivity to make even better connections.