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Creativity and Innovation for Managers
Author Brian Clegg
Creativity and Innovation for Managers will appeal to any manager responsible for getting more out of a business. Creative thinking, creative problem solving and creative idea generation have become essential business drivers. This book provides an excellent e....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Author Peter F. Drucker
Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to ....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Innovation Passport: The IBM First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Journey from Research to Reality
Author Peter Andrews , Mary Jo Frederich
“Finally! A book that lays out a thorough yet workable path to collaborative innovation! With a highly readable style and using great examples, Frederich and Andrews describe the process by which IBM makes collaborative innovation work from a process, company, and c....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
Author Roberto Verganti
Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introd....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Living in More Than One World:
Author Bruce Rosenstein
Drawing on life lessons from management legend Peter Drucker, journalist and scholar Bruce Rosenstein shows knowledge workers how personal and professional diversification is the key to navigating our "flat world" of zero job security, information overload, portable....
Release Date 2009/08 -
The Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management
Author Scott Shane
This timely handbook represents the latest thinking in the field of technology and innovation management, with an up-to-date overview of the key developments in the field.The editor provides with a critical, introductory essay that establishes the theoretical framew....
Release Date 2009/07 -
Silver Lining: Your Guide to Innovating in a Downturn
Author Scott Anthony
Experts agree: The turbulence triggered by the economic shock of 2008 constitutes the "new normal." Unfortunately, too many managers have become paralyzed by it, capable only of slashing costs indiscriminately.Though examining spending during recessions makes sense,....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities
Author Karl Ulrich , Christian Terwiesch
Managers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a structured and process-driven approach this book demonstrates how ....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation
Author Ric Merrifield
It's a totally human condition, a trap that ensnares virtually everyone. Just as when we tie a route to a destination so much so that when someone else takes a different route "why are we going this way?" it usually doesn't matter "how" you get there. This "how" t....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Executing Innovation: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Author Harvard Business School Press
The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. W....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Mastering the Hype Cycle: How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time
Author Mark Raskino , Jackie Fenn
It happens over and over again. Some innovation (a new product, a management trend) comes along that captures the public's imagination. Everybody joins the parade with great fanfare and high expectations. This "next big thing" promises to transform the companies th....
Release Date 2008/10 -
Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition
Author Adam Hartung
Master the #1 Principle for Long-Term Market Dominance! The Phoenix Principle“Create Marketplace Disruption is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. Adam Hartung offers business managers and leaders new insights to long-term success that apply across markets a....
Release Date 2008/07 -
The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work
Author Elizabeth J. Altman , Joseph V. Sinfield , Mark W. Johnson , Scott Anthony
More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the ca....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation
Author Jean-Philippe Deschamps
Innovation leaders promote and address the innovation agenda in their company. Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation. They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Richard R. Reilly , Karen Sobel Lojeski
Praise for Uniting the Virtual Workforce"Uniting the Virtual Workforce offers much-needed guidance on how to navigate the largely unmapped territory of virtual work environments in the global economy. The authors do an outstanding job of presenting how organizations....
Release Date 2008/04 -
Driving Growth Through Innovation, 2nd Edition
Author Robert B. Tucker
For many companies, mastering “innovation” is a daunting challenge yet an urgent necessity. In this groundbreaking book, corporate innovation guru Robert B. Tucker offers a practical, straightforward approach you can use to design and implement a systematic, gr....
Release Date 2008/03 -
Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity for Business and Beyond
Author Alan Axelrod
In this fascinating exploration of one of the most celebrated and innovative minds, best-selling author Alan Axelrod cuts through the myths and reverence surrounding Edison’s “genius” to show how the inventor was, in fact, an ordinary man who created extraordinary w....
Release Date 2008/02 -
Something Really New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products
Author Denis J. Hauptly
Product innovation is the key to business growth. But many books deal with innovation from the business process view alone, or confuse innovation with creativity. Written by an innovation expert whose products generate more than one billion dollars in annual revenue....
Release Date 2007/11 -
A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher
Author Ph.D William A. Cohen
Long considered the world’s greatest thinker and writer on management, Peter Drucker’s teachings continue to inspire leaders everywhere. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the Great Man and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What D....
Release Date 2007/11 -
The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World
Author Mohanbir Sawhney , Satish Nambisan
All the talk about "open innovation" and externally-focused innovation assumes that "one size fits all" in terms of what network-centric innovation is and how companies should harness external creativity. But the reality is that there is no one right way to master t....
Release Date 2007/10 -
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach To Successful Growth And Innovation
Author Dov Dvir , Aaron J. Shenhar
Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding while operations is shrinking. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, mos....
Release Date 2007/08 -
Author Arthur B. VanGundy
As an acknowledged guru in the field of creativity and innovation, Arthur VanGundy has inspired businesses in a variety of industries to generate more original, cutting-edge ideas. Getting to Innovation is a detailed guide to achieving the critical first step in fo....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
Author Arthur B. VanGundy
Getting to InnovationHow to write positioning and rationale statements for each challengeHow to link together multiple objectives in priority frameworksThe top 10 techniques for generating creative ideasTips for designing and running brainstorming retreatsAdvice on ....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author Scott Berkun
How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This b....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Author Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
Final advice from the great Peter Drucker for driving growth and profitability in the 21st Century—with a new foreword from the author"We need a new theory of management. The assumptions built into business today are not accurate." - Peter DruckerBased on multiple ....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Open Business Models: How To Thrive In The New Innovation Landscape
Author Henry Chesbrough
In his landmark book Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough demonstrated that because useful knowledge is no longer concentrated in a few large organizations, business leaders must adopt a new, “open” model of innovation. Using this model, companies look outside their bo....
Release Date 2006/12