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The Social Innovation Imperative
Author Sandra M. Bates
“This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the well-being of humanity in our modern world.”—Jake B. Schrum, President Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX“The Social Innovation Imperative advances a best practice framework to solving the world’s most pr....
Release Date 2011/12 -
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 -
Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward-Focused Mindset
Author Bruce Rosenstein
YOUR FUTURE BEGINS TODAYYou can dream it. You can plan it. You can try to make it happen. But you can never really prepare for the future unless you have a future-focused mindset. That is the underlying message behind the inspiring words and wisdom of Peter Drucker,....
Release Date 2013/10 -
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 -
Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success
Author Rod Pyle
Launch your business to new heights with out-of-this world innovationFor over half a century, NASA has delivered a continuous stream of innovative accomplishments that have inspired the world. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, the space shuttle pioneering reusable....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Drake Baer , Faisal Hoque
Leadership. Creativity. Innovation. When you put it all together, EVERYTHING CONNECTS.The constant cascade of new technologies and social changes is creating a more empowered population. Workforces are increasingly dispersed, demanding of self-expression, and quite....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Customer Focused Process Innovation: Linking Strategic Intent to Everyday Execution
Author David Hamme
DRIVE SUSTAINABILITY AND GROWTH WITH A PROCESS FOCUSED ENTERPRISEYou can execute a world-class business improvement plan, but if its effects don't reach the customer--is it really of value?In this groundbreaking book, business innovation expert David Hamme reveals ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Stephen A. Wilson , Andrei Perumal
A new lens on growth and a critical set of strategies for navigating a complex worldGrowth is rarely in a straight line. It is tempting to think otherwise, particularly when looking in the rear view mirror, but anyone faced with plotting the coordinates for a compa....
Release Date 2017/12 -
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 -
Managing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace, 5th Edition
Author Institute of Leadership & Institute of Leadership & Management
Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also cl....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development, 2nd Edition
Author Barry Pound , Sieglinde Snapp
Agricultural Systems, Second Edition, is a comprehensive text for developing sustainable farming systems. It presents a synthetic overview of the emerging area of agroecology applications to transforming farming systems and supporting rural innovation, with particu....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge
Author Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge examines the viable developments in peer-to-peer transactions enabled by open platforms on the grid’s edge. With consumers and prosumers using more electronic platforms to trade surplus electricity from rooftop solar pan....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Applied Nanotechnology, 3rd Edition
Author Jeremy Ramsden
Applied Nanotechnology: The Conversion of Research Results to Products, Third Edition, takes an integrated approach to the scientific, commercial and social aspects of nanotechnology, exploring the relationship between nanotechnology and innovation, the changing ec....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Valentina Emilia Balas , Hemanth D. Jude
Telemedicine Technologies: Big Data, Deep Learning, Robotics, Mobile and Remote Applications for Global Healthcare illustrates the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system. The book als....
Release Date 2019/05 -
The New Players in Life Science Innovation: Best Practices in R from Around the World
Author Tomasz Mroczkowski
The global center of gravity in life sciences innovation is rapidly shifting to emerging economies. In The New Players in Life Science Innovation, Tomasz Mroczkowski explains how China and other new economic powers are rapidly gaining leadership positions, and thoro....
Release Date 2011/07 -
The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise
Author Dwayne Spradlin , Alpheus Bingham
Many technical obstacles to effective innovation no longer exist: today, companies possess global networks that can connect with knowledge from virtually any source. Today’s challenge is to collaboratively transform that knowledge into higher-value innovation. Their....
Release Date 2011/04 -
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 -
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 -
Sustainable Disruptive Innovation
Author Inder Sidhu
This Element is an excerpt from Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today’s Profit and Drives Tomorrow’s Growth (9780137083640) by Inder Sidhu. Available in print and digital formats.How to focus your innovation where it offers the greatest promise for sustainable compet....
Release Date 2010/09 -
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 -
NASA's New Innovation Framework
Author Dwayne Spradlin , Alpheus Bingham
This Element is an excerpt from The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise (9780132311830) by Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin. Available in print and digital formats.Open innovation: how NASA mastered a radically new appro....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Create Competitive Advantage with Innovation (Collection)
Author Luke Williams , Dwayne Spradlin , Alpheus Bingham , Inder Sidhu , Jeffrey Wager , Don
Four books bring together breakthrough insights and strategies for maximizing the business value of innovation – now, and for years to comeFour remarkable books help executive decision-makers and strategists overcome the stubborn obstacles to business innovation, an....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It, Updated Edition
Author Marc Epstein , Robert Shelton , Tony Davila
Profitable innovation doesn’t just happen. It must be managed, measured, and properly executed, and few companies know how to accomplish this effectively. Making Innovation Work presents a formal innovation process proven to work at HP, Microsoft and Toyota, to help....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Financial Innovation (Collection)
Author Franklin Allen , Glenn Yago , James R. Barth
Sustainable, responsible financial innovation: lessons from the crisis, and new paths to global prosperityAfter the global financial crisis, responsible financial innovation is more crucial than ever. However, financial innovation will only succeed if it reflects th....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Business Innovation Insights (Collection), 2/e
Author Johnathan Cagan , Ravi Sawhney , Craig M. Vogel , Luke M. Williams , Robert Brunner
An up-to-the-minute collection of techniques for jumpstarting innovation in any market, product, service, or processHot new ideas for supercharging business innovation in any market, right now: 4 extraordinary books from world-renowned pioneers in all facets of inno....
Release Date 2013/04 -
How Business Leaders Avoid Conflict (Collection)
Author Michael A. Roberto
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer, Second Edition offers a powerful framework every leader can use to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; test their assumptions; more thoroughly consider "best alternatives"; make better choices, and al....
Release Date 2013/08 -
How To Become Innovative (Collection)
Author Craig M. Vogel , Jonathan Cagan , Robert Shelton , Marc Epstein , Tony Davila
Making Innovation Work presents a formal innovation process proven to work at HP, Microsoft, and Toyota to help ordinary managers drive top and bottom line growth from innovation. The authors have drawn on their unsurpassed innovation consulting experience -- as wel....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Dale Neef
Will "Big Data" supercharge the economy, tyrannize us, or both? Data Exhaust is the definitive primer for everyone who wants to understand all the implications of Big Data, digitally driven innovation, and the accelerating Internet Economy. Renowned digital expert D....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Strategic Innovation: The Definitive Guide to Outlier Strategies
Author Michael Gibbert , Liisa VÄlikangas
GET TO THE FUTURE FIRST!LEVERAGE STRATEGIC NOVELTY (SN) TO TRANSFORM AND DOMINATE YOUR MARKET Become an “outlier organization”: recognize huge opportunities in novelty, and act fast and first Listen for the tremors already building beneath your markets Learn from....
Release Date 2015/09