A guide to systematic, as opposed to incidental, ad-hoc innovation Innovation need not only be jugaad. For the first time a book shows us how in India, innovation can be introduced in one's organization in a systematic, deliberate way. 8 Steps to Innovation explains how you can do this by building an idea pipeline in your organization, improving the velocity of ideas coming in, and implementing the ideas within the given constraints. All this is shown through nice, snappy examples, mostly homegrown Indian ones. Few books in the market talk about innovation in the Indian context with Indian examples as this one does.

Dr Vinay Dabholkar is the president of Catalign Innovation Consulting and helps organizations foster a culture of innovation. He has worked with several organizations in India over half a decade to develop the idea pipeline and the innovation leadership pipeline. Before starting his independent consulting career, he worked with technology companies such as Motorola and Sasken. He shares his insights on innovation in his blog :http://cataligninnovation.blogspot.in/. Rishikesha T. Krishnan is director and professor of Strategic Management at IIM, Indore. He was on the Thinkers50 India 2013 list of most influential management thinkers and was awarded the Thinkers50 India Special Innovation Award. His earlier book, From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India, identifies the challenges faced by India in enhancing industrial innovation, and how these can be overcome. His blog, jugaadtoinnovation.blogspot.in, tracks contemporary innovation trends in India.