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Innovation For Business Success Acknowledgements My sincere gratitude goes to the many people whom I have spoken to and learned from over the past year, on the subject of innovation capability. This clearly includes the many people who are running hard with innovation in our case study set, who gave their time willingly to allow me to interview them and learn how they achieved and sustained their innovation capability. Thanks in particular are due to Michele Hamdorf of GRLmobile, Gus Balbontin of Lonely Planet, Heather Box from Toyota, Daniel Liepnik of Specialty Textiles, Andrew Logan of Newcrest, Tony Ward from Microsoft, Syd Schneider of Stetchtex, Christopher Janssen from GPC Electronics, Phil Butler of Textor, and Steve Plarre from Ferguson Plarre who were my primary contacts and interviewees in the case study companies included in this study. Thanks also to their many colleagues, too numerous to mention, who I was also privileged to talk to and learn from. Your personal innovation efforts and your organisations' achievements in systematic innovation capabilities are in my view nothing short of heroic. These efforts and their outcomes collectively demonstrate and indeed prove that firms in Australia can successfully do more than just be an ordinary source of raw materials for the world, and that even in that endeavour, that innovation can be a real differentiator! You
Applied Business Studies
In this section of my work, I will be investigating how to start up a business, and looking at flaws in the process of setting it up. As well as looking at the range of problem that may occur along the way, I will be looking at how to keep up with the maintenance of the business, along with its finance and reputation. I will now go on to the process of choosing my business name, and talking about the pro's and con's, and if it would be suitable for the business that I am doing. First off, I need to decide what type of business I am doing, whether it is a hair salon, a football store, or even a café. Initially, I looked at what businesses are already set up in my local area, which is Flintshire. I researched and found out that there are many café's, sport shops, hair salons, and many other retail stores. I need to pick a business where it would be 'unique' and stand out. The business that I have decided to do is a theatre based business, and in the store, it would sell a range of items, which can be props, costumes, different lighting equipment, sound boards and many other items. The reason why I have chosen to do a theatre based business is because I understand a lot about the way theatres work, and I know what a lot of theatres need to do productions. In my business, a customer can either buy or rent certain props, buy different lighting or sound boards, costumes for
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CONTENTS Abstract 3 Contents 4 Table of Figures 8 Table of Tables 9 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 10 Aim of the Review 11 Structure of the Paper 12 CHAPTER II: POSITIONING THE FIELD OF INQUIRY 14 Leadership 16 The Heterogeneousness of Leadership: Myriad of Theories, Defintions and Concepts 16 The Intricateness of Leadership 20 Summary 27 Leadership Development 28 The Science and Practice of Leadership Development 29 Leadership Development = Adult Development? 29 Summary 32 Self and Identity 32 How the Self Changes? 33 Self and Leadership 34 Summary 35 Conclusions and Review Questions 35 Systematic Review Questions 37 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY 38 The Systematic Review Process 39 Consultation Panel 39 Search Strategy 40 Databases 41 Other Sources of Information 41 Keywords 42 Search String 43 Results from the Search Strategy 43 Selection Criteria 44 Selection Criteria for Titles and Abstracts 44 Selection criteria for Full Text Papers 45 Quality Appraisal 47 Final Selection of Publications 48 Data Analysis 49 Synthesis 50 CHAPTER IV: CONCEPTUAL FINDINGS 51 Defining Theoretical Perspectives 52 Developing Categories of Perspectives 54 The Perspectives 55 Personal Growth Perspective 56 Psychodynamic Perspective 57 Cognitive Perspective 59 Competence-based Perspective 61 Critical Theory Perspective 63 Systems perspective 65 Strategic
