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Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life
Author Shelley Carson
Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivityHarvard psychologist Shelley Carson?s provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists,....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Workplace Conflict Resolution Essentials For Dummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition
Author Vivian Scott
Resolving conflict in the workplace? No problem!Working your way through a conflict in the office can present unexpected challenges, but there's no need to feel unprepared — Workplace Conflict Resolution Essentials For Dummies has you covered! In the book, you'll ....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Winning with Open Process Innovation
Author Martin Wörter , Georg Von Krogh , Torbjørn Netland
Most research on open innovation has focused on the use of ideas and knowledge from outside the organization in the development of products and services. But openness can be useful for process innovation, too. The authors' research shows that manufacturers can ben....
Release Date 2018/01 -
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 -
Why Learning Is Central to Sustained Innovation
Author Peter T. Ward , Rachna Shah , Toni L. Doolen , Philipp Mayrl , Anja Schulze , Udo Lin
Managers often say they want to improve their product development capability based on so-called “lean” principles and practices so they can innovate while reducing costs and improving quality. In studying manufacturing over the past two decades, the aut....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Why Innovation’s Future Isn’t (Just) Open
Author Neil C. Thompson , Didier Bonnet , Yun Ye
Forging partnerships and investing in startups for new technologies can help companies catch up with rivals, but it doesn’t always give them a competitive advantage. Most would do better to rethink their innovation systems. They must treat external innovation as a way o....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Rick Wartzman
An in-depth look at today’s most pressing business issues through the eyes of Peter Drucker—the father of modern management“Channeling Peter Drucker to tackle some of this century’s most difficult topics, What Would Drucker Do Now? is a veritable treasure trove of f....
Release Date 2011/08 -
What Tech Pioneers Can Learn From Emerging Markets
Author Frieda Klotz
Technology leaders are not shy about pushing the boundaries of their industries, and sometimes they go further — challenging the prevailing rules of society at large. The eagerness of entrepreneurs to test limits isn’t surprising to Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Le....
Release Date 2019/06 -
What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Author Peter F. Drucker
In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can make any executive effective. Leadership is not about charisma or extroversion. It’s about these practices: Effective....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Venture Capital and the Financing of Innovation
Author Bernard Guilhon , Sandra Montchaud
The funding of innovative projects that are fundamentally ambiguous often leads to situations where decision-making is difficult. However, decision-making can be improved by practices such as syndication and step-by-step funding. The dynamic of this industry requires us t....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Using Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation to Mitigate Wealth Inequality
Author Amanda Hamlin , Roger E. Hamlin , Thomas S. Lyons
Economic inequality continues to contribute to political and social instability around the world. This instability stifles development and results in widening the wealth gap between the "haves" and "have nots," further eroding stability. It has been argued that ent....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Author Jeff Havens
A SIMPLER, SMARTER WAY TO MANAGE GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE WORKPLACEForget complex multi-generation models nobody can use!Discover useful solutions rooted in enduring human psychologyImprove communication, productivity, loyalty, career planning, and innovation....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance
Author Gerard J. Tellis
The hands-on guide for fostering relentless innovation within your companyGerard 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. I....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Unleashing Innovation With Collaboration Platforms
Author Likoebe Maruping , Massimo Magni
Digital collaboration platforms can leverage team diversity and expertise, but business must focus on how distributed teams orchestrate their collaboration and how leaders facilitate innovation. The specific collaboration platform you choose is less important. ....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Madan Birla
Creativity and innovation are the keys to both organizational growth and successful careers. People understand this, but they do not know how to unleash their natural creative potential. Drawing upon his twenty-two years of first-hand experience helping FedEx grow i....
Release Date 2013/10 -
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 -
Understanding China's Next Wave of Innovation
Author Wei Wei , George S. Yip , Mark J. Greeven
A few Chinese companies recently have challenged the R&D strategies of foreign companies and offered lessons on how to make ideas commercially viable. But another, less obvious force to be reckoned with in China are the thousands of innovative companies that are qu....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Ubiquitous Computing for Business Innovation
Author Bo Begole
This Element is an excerpt from Ubiquitous Computing for Business: Find New Markets, Create Better Businesses, and Reach Customers Around The World 24-7-365 (9780137064434) by Bo Begole. Available in print and digital formats.Finding breakthrough opportunities to ad....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Top Thought Leaders Share Their Best Innovation Ideas (Collection)
Author FT Press Delivers
Today’s hottest new ideas for supercharging business innovation--from the cutting-edge experts who are making it happen, right now!Fast, powerful, realistic solutions for jumpstarting innovation--whatever you sell, whatever industry you’re in! Discover how to change....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level
Author Des Dearlove , Stuart Crainer
The World's Leading Business Minds on Today's Most Critical ChallengesFeaturing VJ Govindarajan, Linda Hill, Clay Christensen, and many more"Thinkers50 is now established as the definitive ranking of global thought leaders." -- Professor Costas Markides, London Bu....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader
Author John Rossman
The former Amazon executive who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace delivers the ultimate playbook on how to “think like Amazon” and succeed in the digital age. “What would Jeff do?” Since leaving Amazon to advise start-ups and corporations, John Rossman has bee....
Release Date 2019/05 -
Author Farrugia , Barbara Spurrier , LaRusso
The Only Innovation Guide You Will Ever Need--from the Award-Winning Minds at Mayo ClinicA lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly--or as famously--as the legendary Mayo....
Release Date 2014/09 -
The Year in Tech, 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
Author Harvard Business Review , Beena Ammanath , Andrew Ng , Michael Luca , Bhaskar Ghosh
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.Easy-to-use AI tools, contactless commerce, crypto for business, the mature metaverse—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be ....
Release Date 2022/10 -
The Year in Tech 2022: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
Author Harvard Business Review , Larry Downes , Jeanne C. Meister , David B. Yoffie , Maell
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.From quantum computing and next-generation digital health tools to virtual reality training and the dawn of the commercial space age, new technologies are reshaping business on the factory floor and in the C-suite. What should you and your....
Release Date 2021/10 -
Author Patricia Pulliam Phillips , Jack J. Phillips
Innovation is the life blood of practically every organization. Innovation drives growth, development, and prosperity for many organizations and geographical areas. Sometimes, innovation thrives within a certain geographical location or in certain organizations th....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Nathan Furr , Susannah Harmon Furr
A science-backed guide for navigating and thriving through uncertainty—based on interviews and insights from world-renowned leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, artists, and creatives.Whether you're searching for courage to start a new project, change careers, launch a business, develop an idea, or ....
Release Date 2022/07 -
The Three-Box Solution Playbook
Author Vijay Govindarajan , Manish Tangri
A new, comprehensive playbook for innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of Reverse Innovation, Vijay GovindarajanIn his seminal book The Three-Box Solution, Vijay Govindarajan offered an amazingly simple and highly effective framework for leading innovatio....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Vijay Govindarajan
How to Innovate and ExecuteLeaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one ar....
Release Date 2016/04