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Innovation Scorecard

A Method to Measure Innovation in Agile Projects and Business Environments

  • Based on the outcomes of practical application within a live agile project at Red Hat Czech
  • Offers a user-friendly guide with ready-made templates for immediate application in the workplace
  • Includes templates, case study examples and completed forms to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Applicability

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 3-3
    3. Basic Requirements for an Innovation Scorecard System

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 5-5
    4. What Is Meant by Innovation Scorecard?

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 7-16
    5. Innovation Scorecard Design Process

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 17-43
    6. Tools and Techniques

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 45-71
    7. Addendum: An Introduction to the Concepts of Agile and Scrum

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 73-78
  3. Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Case Study 1: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Atomic Host

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 81-104
    3. Case Study 2: Continuous Integration

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 105-132
    4. Case Study 3: Wi-Fi Global Rollout Project

      • Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher
      Pages 133-143
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 145-211

About this book

The concept of innovation is not new. It relates closely to the concept of change. Both are inevitable in today’s and tomorrow’s business environments. Standing still and hoping for the best is no longer a viable option. Innovation, by itself, is not a panacea for positive accomplishments. Of paramount importance to any business is how successful any innovation has actually been.

This book brings together the knowledge, learning and experience from the author's practical applications of a newly developed and implemented Innovation Scorecard methodology to close exactly this shortfall. Their ‘one stop shop’ methodology is a complete end to end approach on how to measure the success of any innovation, irrespective of whether this relates to projects or business as usual work environments. This landmark methodology will provide the reader with an applied proof of concept across a range of business applications and a complete end to end process how to measure success including templates and worked examples. The book offers a starter-pack with suggested performance metrics to get the reader on the road to measuring the success of innovation and to encourage readers to develop how they view and feel about measuring the success of innovation. Furthermore, the book provides the reader with everything they need to know, ranging from a simple to follow user-friendly process to the application of suggested performance metrics and how to apply these in any business work environment, which is a requisite for creating a working environment within the reader’s organisation where innovation and forward-thinking are both encouraged and supported.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Business and Management, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

    Ondrej Zizlavsky

  • SKEMA Business School, Euralille, France

    Eddie Fisher

About the authors

Ondrej Zizlavsky is a Czech Expert specialized in corporate finance, management control and performance measurement systems with particular emphasis on the concept of innovation projects. He has conducted research projects in the Czech Republic supported by the Czech Science Foundation, Czech Technology Agency of the Czech Republic as well as many research short-term projects under the auspices of Brno University of Technology. His work has been published in three books, in a number of scientific peer-reviewed journals indexed in Thomson Reuters and Scopus, and chapters within other research books.
Eddie Fisher is a recognized international project management subject matter expert who has been managing people as both line and project manager over the last 35 years. He has been working in the Telecommunications, Construction, Education and Defence industries for companies such as British Telecom, Telefonica, Vodafone, General Dynamics and Leonardo, in countries such as the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Cuba, Germany and Saudi Arabia. He is a subject matter expert on the people side of management (attitude, behaviour and competence) and strategic business management. He publishes widely in publications such as the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM), Business and Economic Research (BER) and Engineering Management Research (EMR). Eddie is on the editorial board/acts as reviewer of six international academic journals.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation Scorecard

  • Book Subtitle: A Method to Measure Innovation in Agile Projects and Business Environments

  • Authors: Ondrej Zizlavsky, Eddie Fisher

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82688-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82687-1Published: 03 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82690-1Published: 04 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82688-8Published: 02 December 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 211

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Investment Appraisal, Project Management

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eBook USD 49.99
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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 89.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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