Read the book, The Way of the Innovation Master , by Jeffrey Baumgartner. You need to provide at least a paragraph summary of each of the seven phases in the book using the attached template. After...

About the book
The book is based upon how to become an innovation master in business. The name of the book is “The Way of the Innovation Master” and its author is Jeffrey Baumgartner. Moreover, this specific book provides the reader with the essential insights, understanding & knowledge about various ways to become an innovation master in a particular company. The author had designed this book according to three parallel & intertwined cycles. Moreover, this book is unique. The book has seven phases and each of these phases has a journey, dialogue, and lesson for the readers. The journey and dialogue chapters include short stories related to the phase. This book describes a story based on the semi-spiritual journey of a company’s CEO named Jane. According to the author, Jane is determined to become a master in innovation so that she could convert her excessively bureaucratic international organization into an innovative powerhouse. At second, every phase of this book consists of a dialogue or a conversation between two old school company presidents. These two presidents have a conversation about the implementation of the lessons learned from the learning sections. The third section of every phase consists of a series of short & concise lessons. These concise lessons provides step-by-step instructions that every master of innovation should know. Jeffrey’s “The Way of the Innovation Master” will direct the students the prominence of creativity that will assist the innovation masters for creating new business ideas for the enhancement of quality in a specific company. This book is suitable for managers who really want to understand the innovation process and apply it to their business. The objective of Jeffrey is to provide the managers with tricks and tips to perform an innovation process without any obstacles. Innovation is significant for bringing change and success to an organization.
The book also consists of various management process by which an innovation master can improve its creativity. The methods are Quick and Dirty Elimination (Q&DER), Evaluation Matrix as well as SWOT Analysis. Motivation is significant for the increment of employee’s quality and productivity. Therefore, Jeffrey has presented 12 ways to motivate creativity and instill among the employees. The author has also included various tools and strategies to motivate creativity among employees. The tools are software for development of ideas & mind mapping. The phase 4 of this book is interesting and it contains CPS process or creative problem-solving procedure. The same consists of brainstorming process along with the eight steps of CPS process. The maintenance of a workplace culture is significant and therefore the author had also included various ways and methods to accomplish a successful and innovative workplace culture. According to the author, the management team needs trust and a deep concept of innovation to achieve a successful workplace culture. During the implementation of an idea or a plan, the author stated that we should consider some facts such as benefits and risks, stumbling block, people, authorizations, money, milestones, escape plan, action plan, and communication plan.
Summary
In phase 1, Jeffrey has described the chapters super trade, reacquainting and drafting of an...