Business Innovation

Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap in to, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities.

Written by a director at the award-winning global innovation firm frog design, this vital book shows business leaders and managers how to accomplish truly effective innovation in today's disruptive climate. Richardson shows how business is filled with "X-problems" - tough new challenges that present massive innovation opportunities, but also risks.

Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices.

>The Innovation Book is your roadmap to creating powerful innovations that deliver success in a competitive world. With a practical, bite-size format, Mckeown will help you tackle the really important challenges and seize the most-valuable opportunities. The Innovation Book includes 24 of the most powerful tools and models to help innovators, game changers, mavericks, and revolutionaries make new ideas useful.

Gerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organization's innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation. Organizations must be willing to cannibalize successful products, embrace risk, and focus on the future. Organizations build these traits by providing incentives for enterprise, empowering product champions, and encouraging internal markets.

Miserable at Work? Why? You Don't Have to Be describes breakthrough thinking for having fun at work to deliver true innovation. We explore how to ideate and bring out the best in everyone! We focus on three major concepts. The first is bringing awareness to how we think our brains work and then discovering where we may have had misconceptions. The second is letting go of the powerful need to be right at the start of trying to achieve something new.

Ever wondered where big breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the opportunities for industry revolution that everyone else seems to miss? Contrary to popular belief, innovation is not some mystical art that's forbidden to mere mortals. The Four Lenses of Innovation thoroughly debunks this pervasive myth by delivering what we've long been hoping for: the news that innovation is systematic, it's methodical, and we can all achieve it.

Welcome to the world of data analytics, where its power transforms businesses and informs decision-making. In an age of unprecedented data availability, organizations that successfully harness and analyze it hold an unparalleled competitive advantage; Data Analytics Unleashed: Empowering Businesses with Insights and Innovation will serve as your guide in unleashing its full potential and using it to drive success.

In Seeding Innovation: The Path to Profit and Purpose in the 21st Century, veteran entrepreneur, award winning author, global strategist, speaker, and Rice University Innovation and Entrepreneurship professor, Robyn O’Brien, delivers an insightful and data driven roadmap to authenticity and smart leadership in the face of accelerating technological, environmental, and social change.

A philosophy of games to help us win back control over what we value The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen—one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data—takes us deep into the heart of games, and into the depths of bureaucracy, to see how scoring systems shape our...

Inovar é uma habilidade exclusiva de poucos ou um processo acessível a todos? Em A Arte da Inovação, são desafiados conceitos tradicionais, mostrando que a inovação não é sobre inventar algo totalmente novo, mas sim enxergar o que já existe por perspectivas diferentes. Com uma abordagem instigante, o livro desconstrói mitos ao redor da criatividade, revelando que inovar é mais sobre constância, exploração e adaptação do que sobre genialidade inata ou pura sorte.

Can't find a way to generate ideas? Do you want to carry out your project easily? How do the process of innovation, the combinations, the ways to reinvent and recreate ideas work? this book will give you the opportunity to change and teach you to see the creative potential of the ideas that surround us, to develop projects in any field using simple designs, and to use this practical guide to learn the terminology of project management; this book contains tools for creating your innovation project for business or school.

Based on years of solid neuroscience, quantum mechanics, complex systems theory, social science and leadership research, The New Science of Radical Innovation: The Six Competencies Leaders Need to Win in a Complex World demonstrates the ins and outs of the leadership competencies you need to jump-start and sustain radical innovation in your organization, leading to success and the results you want.

In Driving Innovation from Within, strategist and advisor Kaihan Krippendorff disproves one of today's biggest business myths to highlight lessons for innovators and leaders. He reveals how many of the modern world's most impactful creations were invented by passionate employee innovators. Distilling more than 150 interviews with internal innovators and leading experts along with insights from the latest research and today's most successful companies Krippendorff lays out a step-by-step playbook to unlock innovation from the inside. He maps the barriers that frustrate efforts to disrupt from within and provides tools to remove them.

Innovation is no longer the exclusive domain of the Silicon Valley elite. Reverse Innovation will open your eyes to the fact that the dynamics of global innovation are changing-and if you want your firm to survive, you'd better pay attention. The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing. No longer will innovations travel the globe in only one direction, from developed to developing nations. They will also flow in reverse.

Innovation is worth little unless it generates lasting success, and gaining measurable results from new ideas requires more than creative risk-taking. Successful innovation demands a tactical approach, and Getting Innovation Right reveals how your company can secure real traction and growth in the marketplace.

En el Kamasutra de la sexualidad se requiere una flexibilidad física fuera de serie, pero yo no alcanzo a hacer ni la mitad de las posiciones. Lo bueno es que en El Kamasutra de la innovación no necesitarás una gran flexibilidad física, sino mental, porque llegarás a soluciones que nunca antes te habías imaginado.

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Fiecare epocă a inovării tehnologice aduce beneficii. Însă impune totodată adoptarea unor strategii noi și, de cele mai multe ori, schimbări în domeniul de activitate. David L. Rogers îți prezintă o hartă a etapelor care trebuie parcurse în dezvoltarea oricărei afaceri care se vrea în pas cu transformarea digitală. Folosindu-și experiența universitară, dar mai ales fascinantul background de consultant al unora dintre cele mai mari companii la nivel global, autorul însoțește fiecare capitol cu exemple ilustrative și studii de caz care să te inspire și pe tine pentru marea schimbare.

An empowering guide to career growth that reveals how to “be more lobster” —to never stop learning and pave the way to a meaningful working life In today’s working world, careers are characterized by change. You can take control of your own development at any time, but many of us don't...