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    What's the Big Idea? (Review and Analysis of Davenport, Prusak and Wilson's Book)
    What's the Big Idea? (Review and Analysis of Davenport, Prusak and Wilson's Book)
    What's the Big Idea? (Review and Analysis of Davenport, Prusak and Wilson's Book)
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    What's the Big Idea? (Review and Analysis of Davenport, Prusak and Wilson's Book)

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    The must-read summary of Thomas Davenport, Laurence Prusak and James Wilson's book: "What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking".

    This complete summary of the ideas from Thomas Davenport, Laurence Prusak and James Wilson's book "What's the Big Idea?" shows that when it comes to implementing new management ideas in an organisation, it's not the business gurus who really count. The most important people are the "idea practitioners" - the people who sort through the ideas, choose the right ones and then implement them. In their book, the authors explain how you can enhance your chances of success by taking advantage of new business thinking and putting more emphasis on building the ranks of idea practitioners. This summary is a guide to making a noticeable different to business operations by listening to the right people.

    Added-value of this summary:
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    • Expand your business knowledge

    To learn more, read "What's the Big Idea?" and discover why you should start listening to the idea practitioners in your business in order to progress towards the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBusiness Book Summaries
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9782511020463
    What's the Big Idea? (Review and Analysis of Davenport, Prusak and Wilson's Book)

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      What’s The Big Idea? by Thomas Davenport, Laurence Prusak and James Wilson

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      Summary of What’s The Big Idea? (Thomas Davenport, Laurence Prusak and James Wilson)

      1. Understand the roles of the three components of new business ideas

      2. How to let new ideas flourish within your organization

      Book Abstract

      MAIN IDEA

      When it comes to implementing new management ideas in an organization, it’s not the business gurus who really count. The most important people are the idea practitioners – the people within your organization who sift through the pool of management ideas, choose the right ones and then do the real work of importing and implementing workable ideas.

      To enhance your chances of success in taking advantage of new business thinking, put more emphasis on building the ranks of the idea practitioners within your firm and less emphasis on what the business gurus are saying. Therefore, rather than seeking more opportunities to sit at the feet of business gurus, build the skills of your idea practitioners. Encourage them to become highly skilled at ignoring the hype and focusing instead on superior business ideas which will be applicable and beneficial to your organization. Allow the idea practitioners to work with passion and sound reasoning to adopt sound new business ideas and your organization will leap forward towards the future. Conversely, in the absence of the discipline provided by idea practitioners, all that will happen is you will bounce uneasily from one management fad to the next without ever making any noticeable difference to your business operations.

      "Business ideas serve two basic roles for organizations. One is to improve – or try to improve – organizational performance. They don’t always work, but new business ideas deliver to organizations improved cost, cycle time, financial performance, market share, and so forth, if implemented well. The other role business ideas play

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