Help is finally here.

If conflicting advice and mixed messages about how to instill innovation in your company have left you feeling dazed and confused—help is finally here. The Innovation Universe is a framework that tees up the most critical decisions and actions your company must take to become innovative for the long term. Developed and fine-tuned based on decades of experience, Dr. Tennant’s unique insights, framing, and examples embody the practitioner-to-practitioner approach that is her hallmark.

The book discusses four core common-sense platforms from the Innovation Universe framework that can be easily applied to any company type, setting, or size.

FRAME: strategic mandate; linking strategy and innovation.GENERATE: customer-driven problem solving; from discovery to launch.EMBED: organization renovation, including culture and management systems.LEAD: unleashing human potential, in yourself and others.

A guided tour of the “innovation universe” by a wise practitioner/teacher who created this comprehensive and accessible framework for those who desire to become more accomplished innovators within their own organizations.

Harry L. Davis, Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Dr. Nancy Tennant is a practitioner, professor, consultant, and best-selling author of innovation, leadership, and organization change. She is one of the world’s foremost thought-leaders in transforming businesses to achieve innovation “from everyone and everywhere.” Businessweek named Dr. Tennant one of the top 25 Innovation Champions in the world.