Career Innovation

In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way.

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Sample Write Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems and renowned HR and leadership expert, breaks down the best practices for progressive employee discipline and structured terminations into easy-to-understand steps that will help you avoid common legal and ethical pitfalls.

The book is written for, and from, practitioners of design and development, and reveals a proven methodology for success. All of the case histories were recognized as both award-winning products, to include the prestigious Edison Awards, as well as successfully winning in the marketplace.

Embark on a captivating journey into the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship with "Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation: Igniting Innovation and Exploring Venture Capital's Role in Fueling Entrepreneurial Growth." Delve deep into the dynamic world where ideas evolve into groundbreaking ventures, powered by the strategic force of venture capital. This audiobook unveils the intricate dance between innovation and investment, guiding you through the pivotal role venture capital plays in nurturing the spirit of entrepreneurship

The first volume of this collection focuses on the latest in transportation innovation. The future offers many game-changing modes of travel. We provide a guide and list the latest developments and prototypes of flying cars, hyperloops and hydrogen powered trains, hypersonic and supersonic jet travel being developed by DARPA and the airline industry, the space travel milestones being reached by entrepreneurs like Richard Branson of Virgin, and many other exciting new developments.

Dans un monde en perpétuel mouvement, l'adaptabilité et la créativité sont des qualités cruciales. Les entrepreneurs et les chefs d'entreprise doivent accueillir et anticiper le changement pour créer des opportunités. Dans "Disruptez-vous !", Jay Samit, expert américain des médias numériques qui a lancé, développé et vendu des start-up et des sociétés Fortune 500, nous livre sa méthode unique : les stratégies qui aident les entreprises à prospérer peuvent être appliquées au niveau individuel.

For more than twenty years, major innovations—the kind that transform industries and even societies—seem to have come almost exclusively from startups. Established companies still dominate most markets, but despite massive efforts and millions of dollars, they can't seem to achieve the same kinds of foundational breakthroughs. The problem, say Tony Davila and Marc Epstein, is that the very processes and structures responsible for established companies' enduring success prevent them from developing breakthroughs. This is the innovation paradox.

Leading in a Non-Linear World leads listeners through a groundbreaking set of science-based strategies to help them face rising demand, uncertainty and change posed by disruptive technologies and seismic shifts in globalization. The book shows how our mindset, more than our knowledge and expertise, has the potential to be our greatest asset in facing the future. Jean Gomes reviews the latest brain research revealing that our mindset is the interplay of feeling, thinking, and seeing, and how we can build it to significantly increase our wellbeing and performance.

In today’s fast-paced market, businesses must innovate to stay competitive, but many struggle to find opportunities for growth. Behzad Mahdavi’s book, Mastering Commercial Innovation, addresses this challenge through the engaging story of Kevin, a consultant dedicated to boosting the profitability of struggling companies worldwide. Kevin works with clients from various industries to improve their innovation culture and financial performance, offering insights into commercial innovation in an accessible way.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving change at an unprecedented pace, level, and intensity that is impacting businesses across industries, not to mention our everyday lives. We are rapidly blurring the physical and the digital, transforming the way we live and, in some sense, what it even means to be human. Whether we run a startup or multinational, a nonprofit or academic institution, a city or a whole country, we need to embrace this change to not just survive but thrive under these new realities.

Small changes can deliver big new product results. Are new products taking too long to develop and failing to deliver the bottom-line impact you need? Now you can accelerate your growth by identifying your innovation bottleneck - just one of the powerful new product development strategies revealed in Simplifying Innovation. As the story in this provocative business audiobook unfolds, you'll discover the first-ever approach to new product growth based on the Theory of Constraints.

Why is it that so many gifted and passionate leaders end up on the sidelines of ministry rather than finishing well? How can you avoid the pitfalls that face those who serve Christ and his church? What steps can you take that will propel you forward into a more faithful and fruitful ministry than you ever dreamed? These questions and more are addressed in Leadership from the Inside Out.

A big-picture look at how the latest trends in information management and technology are impacting business models and innovation worldwide.... With all of the recent emphasis on "big data", analytics and visualization, and emerging technology architectures such as smartphone networks, social media, and cloud computing, the way we do business is undergoing rapid change. The right business model can create overnight sensations - think of Groupon, the iPad, or Facebook.

Life is not exactly a bed of roses for most innovation leaders and intrapreneurs - those assertive, innovative, corporate risk-takers who passionately turn ideas into profitable products. They take on corporate sacred cows and face down challenges that would cause less driven and less talented people to quickly throw their hands down in defeat. They struggle daily to unleash entrepreneurial thinking while dealing with an army of people fiercely dedicated to maintaining the status quo.

All humans have an innate drive to make great things. In The Innovation Mindset, Jennifer Kenny shows you exactly how to implement practices that will drive greater innovation, differentiate your products and solutions through better innovation, and maximize the innovation capacity of your team.

This book is dedicated to all the awesome inventors and innovation strategists. The mavericks that embrace innovation. Those that embark on the journey of the unknown. Those that take the familiar and transcend it to something completely new. Those that seek to create something genuinely special for other people’s experience.

In Fostering Innovation: How to Build an Amazing IT Team, accomplished technology strategist, executive, and leader Andrew Laudato delivers an eye-opening exploration of how to design, build, staff, and run a high-performing IT department. The book is filled with universally applicable strategies and techniques that can transform any IT team into an all-star cast perfectly aligned with your organization's objectives.

In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away "for free." It is an inherently simple grassroots innovation process, unencumbered by compensated transactions and intellectual property rights.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new electricity of our times. It is revolutionizing industries the world over, and changing how we fundamentally view and understand work. Superhuman Innovation argues that AI will supercharge the workforce and the world of work, can be harnessed to deliver powerful change to how companies innovate and gain competitive advantage. It is a practical guide to how AI and Machine Learning are impacting not only how businesses, brands, and agencies innovate, but also what they innovate: products, services and content.

Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the world’s best idea still faces a devilish challenge: it must build the business of tomorrow without endangering the business of today. Beyond the Idea is an essential book for any business that recognizes that innovation always has been, and always will be, the key to long term growth and vitality.