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Inventuring: Why Big Companies Must Think Small (Hardcover)

by William Buckland (Author), Andrew Hatcher (Author), Julian Birkenshaw (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0077103793
  • ISBN-13: 978-0077103798
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 725,768 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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“An important and timely contribution to the field of corporate venturing.”

Pekka Ala-Pietilä, President, Nokia

“By taking this book to heart, those involved in business creation can significantly enhance their chances of success and avoid costly mistakes. It provides a wealth of guidance on how to go about renewal in a flexible, measured manner.”

Erik Vollebregt, CEO, Shell Technology Ventures

“Offers a new perspective on the age-old problem of generating growth inside well-established companies. Through detailed examples, it provides a clear set of guidelines that companies can follow if they want to manage their new business creation activities more effectively.”

Laura Tyson, Dean, London Business School Formerly Chairman, President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, 1993-1995

“The central message of this book is that to grow successfully, a company needs ultimately to create a culture and capability that supports the process of business creation. Inventuring provides a wealth of detail on how to do this.”

Sir Peter Davis, CEO, Sainsbury’s

“Rich with ideas and examples, Buckland, Hatcher and Birkinshaw have served up a practical, readable aid for managers.”

Andrew Campbell, Director, Ashridge Strategic Management Centre UK

“A useful tool for evaluating whether venturing will create value for your organization and offers useful advice on how to get started.”

Heino von Prondzynski, Head of Roche Diagnostics Member of the Executive Committee of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

“Experience has taught me that the best time to be investing in new business ventures is at the low-point of the market. Valuations are low, and the resources you need are in plentiful supply. This book will tell you how to build your company's venturing capability so that you are prepared for the next boom.”

John Taysom, Founding and Managing Partner, RVC Europe Ltd

What do Virgin Atlantic, Heathrow Express, the Ericsson mobile phone, Tesco.com and Egg, the online bank, all have in common?

They are all successful new businesses created within existing companies.

New business creation can be the most powerful wealth-creating tool in the modern firm’s armoury. When used effectively, it can enable a company to reinvent its core business and extend its strategic assets. But it is difficult to get right. Companies routinely invest heavily in business creation initiatives which subsequently fail to deliver significant organic growth.

Following extensive research across Europe, North America and the Far East, Buckland, Hatcher and Birkinshaw argue that the trick to successful business creation lies in a firm’s ability to:

  • intergrate a business creation capability across it’s operation
  • combine small-company attributes such as agility and creativity with a risk-tolerant, long-term approach

    Inventuring shows why business creation should be at the top of a company’s strategic agenda and how to organize and manage it alongside other business development techniques. It demonstrates how to build a business creation capability from scratch and how to embed it within everyday practices so that it becomes routine.

    The book provides a step-by-step guide to generating and turning ideas into commercially viable enterprises while avoiding the many pitfalls. It will help you to determine which ideas to run with, how to develop and launch them, and how to extract the best value for corporate growth.

    About the Author

    William Buckland and Andy Hatcher are former vice presidents of new ventures at Reuters.

    Julian Birkinshaw is an associate professor at London Business School.


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    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Practice not preaching, 20 May 2003
    In an environment where corporate venturing means different things to different people - many with a totally misguided view on what corproate venturing entails - it's good to read a book that spells out what it is, what it can be, what is can do for your company and how to execute a venturing programme.

    From using entrepreneurs and small companies for driving new product development to acquiring businesses to accelerate new market entry, Andrew and his colleagues provide some of the best examples I've seen and describe the best practices that I'm sure the uninitiated and experienced can benefit from. Personally, its been good to see what we're doing well and what we're doing badly.

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    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars I liked this book, 23 April 2003
    The title says it all and the book delivers a good how-to approach to staring up businesses within your company. I really liked the use of examples which managed to illustrate the points they were trying to make well. The theoretical bit at the front was a little too long and not of much practical use so maybe they should have spent more time on the how-to sections which were very useable and useful. Overall the book was was readable and engaging and has made me think again about how we might do this at my company. Worth a look if you are thinking of getting into intrapreneurialism.
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    2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly superficial and non-comprehensive, 4 Jul 2003
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    This book left me with the same two questions that I had after I read 'Radical Innovation':
    1. They should have had much more in-depth information, why stick so much to the surface ?
    2. Is their overview of ways to create new business comprehensive (how about investing in external startups ? how about acquiring startups ? how about partnerring with the right startups ?) ?

    Seen the impressive list of authors from both Academia as well as people who've been on the front the book is disappointing. Maybe because they were limited on what they could disclose, time pressure etc. I missed the real in-depth insights.

    To learn more about new business creation I recommend the books 'Corporate Venturing' (about investing in internal and external ventures), 'Intrapreneuring' (about internal entrepreneurship), 'Webs of Innovation' (about how to deal with innovation in immature markets), 'The Innovators Dilemma' (about why established companies have problems with 'disruptive' technologies).

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