An overview of the book The Road to Institutional Innovation
In a time when competition between commercial companies in various parts of the world has intensified and the speed of changes has increased dramatically as products are renewed very quickly, you will hardly buy a modern electronic device or a car until you hear of another product on the market that has more specifications or higher quality. To the point that many people have become an annual habit of changing their smartphones because the producing companies do not stop making changes and developments in the products. The matter is not limited to products only, as well as services. Every now and then we hear of a new service provided by organization X and another provided by organization Y, and so on. Until the customer sat at home and received all the products and services that came to his mind from all over the world. This acceleration emphasizes the necessity of institutions adopting innovation, whether it is innovation in products, services, or processes, in order to continue making profits and not declare their loss or bankruptcy. Innovation is what enables an organization to remain competitive and provide innovative new products and services that attract customers and achieve profits.
Many people use the word innovation on a daily basis, many managers demand innovation from their employees, and many new entrepreneurs aim to achieve innovation. But if you stop someone and ask him about innovation, its dimensions, and the factors affecting it, you will often get a simple answer that reflects a superficial understanding of innovation, or a wrong understanding of innovation and a lack of awareness of its various dimensions. In this book, we will gently navigate institutional innovation so that the reader can understand institutional innovation in a deep way that enables him to apply it, whether in the organization in which he works or in his own projects. This book combines scientific and literary style. Many parts of the book are based on scientific studies and numbers, and many stories and examples are used to illustrate different topics. The beginning of the book explains innovation and its importance to institutions and answers a key question: Why do we innovate? Then we move on to understanding the innovation process from its beginning to obtaining the final product, in addition to understanding the types of innovation and its motivations. After that, we move to a deep understanding of the main factors influencing innovation, which are leadership, change management, institutional resources, and the work environment. The book concludes by explaining the administrative and personal obstacles to innovation.
Author: Dr. Hassan Al Bishr
Novel: Where did you lose your hearts?
They were sitting at the dining table eating lunch.
The brothers were arguing about something, and nothing stopped them except the mother’s crying and the father’s shock. The brother stood up to find out what had happened and was shocked as well. The sisters did not realize what had happened to them...what might put the shock on their faces. They only knew one thing, which was that death was coming.
That day came when the father, who works in the most honorable profession of protecting the homeland, would leave. He was going to the battlefield!
Days passed and nothing had happened yet.. They thought that what was published were just rumours, until one day they felt an earthquake, an earthquake that was neither strong nor weak. From that moment they knew that their country had begun to collapse.. They knew that they had reached the end, or to be more precise, they had not reached the end. It was only the beginning, the beginning of the war and the beginning of the pain.
From that moment, the family began to struggle with death...to struggle with pain...the pain of loss...the loss of the self, the loss of the father, and the greatest loss was the loss of the homeland! The homeland that sheltered and protected them...so how could they lose the place where they made their memories?
The book talks about Dubai... the city of dreams, the city of beauty and its founder, Sheikh: Mohammed bin Rashid Ali Maktoum, and we quote from it...
Tamer of life's riders, spoiler of horse cravings
With the wisdom of the desert, I enriched the lush horses and took care to name them until they appeared in time as a legend that walked on the lashes of sand with ease, and went slowly to ascend to glory with every effort. Under its spikes, the earth moved, and I was rewarded for its command, patience, secret, and effort. And you were the knight who was the appropriate guardian of the dreams of the wise and the pens of the nobles, and you, sir, were like your impeccable poem, taming the great horses and passing on longings for ages.
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