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Author David A. Hills , Stanley S. Gryskiewicz
Each year from 1978 through 1987 the Center for Creative Leadership hosted an event called Creativity Week, during which a select group of researchers and practitioners would get together for a high-energy exchange of ideas on organizational creativity. Discussions....
Release Date 1992/06 -
Author Russell Radford , Roger Bean
This is a guide to building innovative, creativity-rich organizations through astute and skillful management. Whatever the end goal, this book provides a systematic process for managing focused, usable innovation - without the micro-managing that can stifle creativ....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results
Author Iain Somerville , Marshall Goldsmith , Frances Hesselbein
In this second volume of The Drucker Foundation's Wisdom to Action Series, twenty-seven remarkable thought leaders help today's leaders meet the challenge of releasing the power of innovation. Leading for Innovation brings together Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Coll....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Leadership in Action: Back to the Future: Putting Innovation Efforts on Solid Ground
Author James Michalski , Steven A. Wilson , David Hardy , Jack Hipple
The experiences of some former innovation champions contain lessons that can be used to plan and execute innovation efforts better the next time around.
Release Date 2002/04 -
Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices
Author Dr. Daniel Rouach , Jeff Saperstein
Drawing on extensive new research through dozens of interviews with entrepreneurial champions in diverse sectors, Creating Regional Wealth in the Global Innovation Economy pinpoints the key reasons why some locations succeed in the quest to become centers of technol....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal
Author Charles A. O'Reilly , Michael L. Tushman
Tushman and O'Reilly examine how leadership, culture, and organizational architectures can be both important facilitators of innovation and, not uncommonly, formidable obstacles. They demonstrate how to clarify today's critical managerial problems, use culture and....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Strategic Innovation: Embedding Innovation as a Core Competency in Your Organization
Author Nancy Tennant Snyder , Deborah L. Duarte
Strategic Innovation offers a flexible, customizable template that managers, executives, and business leaders can use to introduce an effective innovation strategy throughout their organization. The authors, Nancy Tennant Snyder and Deborah L. Duarte, provide the to....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Managing Creativity and Innovation
Author Harvard Business School Press
Packed with practical information designed for business readers and managers at all levels, this essential volume offers insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to help foster innovation.
Release Date 2003/08 -
Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Author Erik A. Roth , Scott Anthony , Clayton Christensen
Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Chr....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Jeffrey D. Wager , J. Donald deBethizy , Michael D. Lord
Innovation is more urgently necessary than it's ever been. Now, three leading experts on commercializing innovation systematically sort through the wreckage of yesterday's strategies, learning lessons and identifying ideas worth preserving and adapting. To prepare....
Release Date 2005/02 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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