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Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
Author Brad Feld
An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities"Startup communities" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Should 360-degree Feedback Be Only Used For Developmental Purposes?
Author Cynthia D. McCauley , Maxine Dalton , David W. Bracken
Along with the growing use of 360-degree feedback in organizations today, there is much disagreement over how it should be employed: strictly to help the manager develop or also to help those who work with the manager decide such issues as pay and promotion? This p....
Release Date 1997/11 -
Run for Elected Office—and Win
Author Jana M. Kemp
The list of challenges facing society is endless. Numerous financial and social problems affect the world and individual countries. And they also affect states, counties, cities, and even school districts and neighborhood policy councils. It's time for fresh thinki....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Rethinking Design and Interiors
Author Shashi Caan
The world is increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession address these developments with a new way of thinking. This book points the way for the design of interiors in this newly com....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Luke Hay
Good UX is based on evidence. Qualitative evidence, such as user testing and field research, can only get you so far. To get the full picture of how users are engaging with your website or app, you'll need to use quantitative evidence in the form of analytics.This....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Bill Treasurer
Visionaries and idealists are often dismissed as being, well, mad—stark-raving loonies. POSITIVELY M.A.D. turns such labels around—telling the stories of people who courageously pursued “crazy” ideas that challenged conventional thinking, re-imagined the way th....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author Christopher Noessel , Gretchen Anderson
When it comes to solving thorny UX design problems, two heads are better than one. That’s the premise behind pair design, the practice of having two designers work together on each aspect of a design project. In this report, two seasoned pair-design advocates expla....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Now That Your Products Can Talk, What Will They Tell You?
Author Meir Kahtan , Eric Gervet , Suketu Gandhi
Not long ago, companies had to rely in large part on surveys and focus groups to understand what customers liked and didn’t like about their products. In recent years, social media and online ratings have given businesses new ways to learn about customersR....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Michelle Segar
Selected as the #1 book in diet/exercise for 2015 by USA Best Book Awards.We start out with the best intentions. We're going to exercise more and get in shape! Then five days a week at the gym turns into two... then becomes none. We hit the snooze button and skip t....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips
Author Wayne Wolf , Ahmed Jerraya
Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple processor cores on a single chip. Designing a multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSOC) requires an understanding of the various design styles and techniques used in the multipro....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Minimum viable products and prototypes
Author Jeff Gothelf , Josh Seiden
In this lesson we cover the Minimum Viable Product and how to use it to plan experiments. We use those experiments to test the validity of our assumptions and decide how to move forward with our project. Show and hide more
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author M. Nora Klaver
Everyone hates asking for help. We're afraid of seeming weak. We think it's an admission of failure. We simply don't know how. So instead we continue to struggle on alone with both day-to-day burdens and serious crises. But, as Nora Klaver shows, we make thi....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Managing Fuzzy Projects in 3D: A Proven, Multi-Faceted Blueprint for Overseeing Complex Projects
Author Lavagnon Ika , Jan Saint-Macary
The first resource of its kind―a multi-disciplinary method for effectively managing the largest, most complex projects in business todayAll too often, we execute projects that come with high levels of complexity or uncertainty, along with conflicting or unstated expectations from stakeholders. The a....
Release Date 2023/01 -
Learn Small Business Startup in 7 Days
Author Heather Smith
The practical guide to learning the essentials of starting your own business in just one weekThinking about starting a business? Then Learn Small Business Startup in 7 Days is the book for you. Guiding you through the key aspects of getting a new business up and run....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Josh Seiden , Jeff Gothelf
Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Josh Seiden , Jeff Gothelf
The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today’s web-driven reality. In this insightful book, leading advocate Jeff Gothelf teaches you valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques from the ground up—how to rapidly experiment with design....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Author Jez Humble , Barry O'Reilly , Joanne Molesky
How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale—and demonstrat....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Paul Sowyrda , John Westman
The goals of this book are to discuss critical topics in launching new products, and to distill successful approaches from hundreds of publications and experience from launching over 50 new products into a checklist for marketing leaders, CEOs, and board membe....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Jodie Moule
Today, technology is used to shift, sway and change attitudes and behavior. This creates amazing opportunities and challenges for designers. If we want to create products and services that have the power to educate people so they may live better lives, or help to re....
Release Date 2012/10 -
KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays
Author Joel Comm
For nearly fifteen years, Joel Comm has been generating revenue on the web via a number of avenues. In KaChing, he shares his five primary methods of making money online, combining traditional marketing with the new, offering detailed strategies and techniques that ....
Release Date 2010/06 -
How to Solve Problems and Make Brilliant Decisions
Author Richard Hall
Business thinking skills that really workBetter creative thinking leads to brilliant decision making and successful, innovative solutions to business problems. Using the proven practical skills, techniques and advice in this book, you will learn how to think better,....
Release Date 2014/12 -
How to Launch Products in Uncertain Markets
Author Jan Hendrik Fisch , Jan-Michael Ross
How should companies launch products in times of uncertainty? Should they “wait and see” until uncertainty resolves — or commit to a full-scale launch and ride it out? Conventional wisdom says being early to market is the right choice, but that is....
Release Date 2018/10 -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking (with featured article "Design Thinking" By Tim Brown)
Author Harvard Business Review , Tim Brown , Clayton M. Chris
Use design thinking for competitive advantage.If you read nothing else on design thinking, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you use design thinking to produce breakthrou....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author Thomas H. Davenport , Vijay Govindarajan , Adam Grant , Clayton M. Christensen , Har
A year’s worth of management wisdom, all in one place.We’ve reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors fro....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration
Author Eric Boyer , James Edwin Kee , John J. Forrer
A comprehensive guide to public sector collaboration with private and nonprofit organizations for better service deliveryGoverning Cross-Sector Collaboration tackles the issues inherent in partnerships with nongovernmental actors for public service delivery, highlig....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Give Your Business a Heart (Collection)
Author David B. Wolfe , Rajendra S. Sisodia , Jagdish N. Sheth , Dev Patnaik
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, first edition, explains how companies can challenge themselves to meet their customers more than halfway. The author's original approach walks helps readers shift their thinking and their com....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Author Dr. Alan S. Gutterman
This book is a must-have guide for anyone thinking about launching a new business and also is an excellent resource for attorneys and other professionals providing advice to their clients and academics teaching entrepreneurship classes.The terms founder and promote....
Release Date 2018/08