Business Innovation

Better executive health drives business performance and a stronger society. For the experienced manager as well as manager in training, business school professor, and executive coach; Steven P. MacGregor helps you leverage this truth in your life and your business. MacGregor shares breakthrough insights and techniques he's honed through seven years of pioneering the world-renowned Sustaining Executive Performance (SEP) program and working with thousands of top executives worldwide.

Customer behaviors, business models, technologies, and regulations are evolving quickly, and many of the strategic rules we formerly lived by have become obsolete. To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, we need all levels and functions in our businesses to be creative and responsive. We need both courage and speed. Fearless Growth provides new rules to enable your company to adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster.

From the beaches of Rio to the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, Shake the Cart is a delightful discourse on the art of creative disruption and millennial-driven innovation. Championing a brave new millennial-based outlook on life and business, Shake the Cart introduces three bold new ideas: the disruption mindset, the new adoption curve (the shaky-cart curve), and the way of the cart. With sportive case studies from Washington, DC to Wall Street, Shake the Cart envisions a diverse and inclusive world and workplace.

You know them at first sight: teammates or colleagues, direct reports or bosses who radiate enthusiasm, positive energy, and inspiration. Even in difficult circumstances they glow with an attitude that inspires others, fosters a great working experience for everyone, and creates empowering relationships. And Lynda Gratton can make sure you're one of them.

For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed into the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations - people do.

Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt - and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry. What works for the most successful entrepreneurs will work for us, Brown argues, whether we want to stay employed working for someone else or are thinking of going off on our own.

So just exactly what is innovation? It turns out that innovation is doing something new. It can be a new method, a new idea, or even a new product. In the world of IT, we have the ability to solve just about any problem. However, how we go about solving problems can become outdated quickly. What we need to do as CIOs is to find out how to bring the spirit of innovation into our IT departments.

Don’t get left behind – find out what it takes to be a great modern-day leader in a fast-paced, rapidly changing landscape. The evolution of leadership is nothing short of remarkable – in fact, it is unrecognizable from what it was just a decade ago. As technology races ahead, cultural boundaries blur, and workplace dynamics shift at an unprecedented pace, leaders also have to keep up with the changes on top of the usual challenges.

Marketers are quick to jump to the "what?" and "where?" of social media marketing, but they are often late on answering "why?" Why is social media a necessity to your marketing? Why should your consumers care that you are on social media? Why are you investing your budget and time? This book explores the principles and strategies that answer why you are on social media. It lays out the framework to help you build a process around those strategies and your social presence.

In the ground-breaking Innovation Thinking Methods, entrepreneur and tech CEO Osama A. Hashmi introduces the discipline of "innovation-thinking," based on the methods and techniques he's applied over the past 15 years to build strong innovation cultures in his award-winning tech companies, and to help entrepreneurs and enterprise companies refocus their thinking back towards ambitious goals and more meaningful pursuits.

In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away "for free." It is an inherently simple grassroots innovation process, unencumbered by compensated transactions and intellectual property rights.

Leaders all around the world at organizations of any size and type will benefit by shedding their obsolete notions about strategy and becoming more resilient. Bringing Strategy Back rises to the challenge and presents a new prescriptive model. It introduces four "strategic shock absorbers" that enable leaders to build resilient organizations that can withstand even the most unexpected global turbulence.

In his doctoral research, author Yoram Solomon showed that the factors affecting creativity and productivity the most could be summed up with one word - culture. He published his findings in his book Un-Kill Creativity: How Corporate America Can Out-Innovate Startups. However, he also found that employees play a major role in creating the right culture and should not put the burden solely on management.

In an age when corporate executives are focused on smoothing out differences and achieving consensus, Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer contend that happy workers aren't always productive; they often become prone to boredom and complacency. While organizational harmony and strategic alignment are important, the health and well-being of organizations also depend on carefully constructed and constructive conflict.

Warum disruptive Innovationen die globale Wirtschaft verändert. Erfahren Sie wie Sie Ihr Geschäftsmodel innovieren. Warum Sie sich dem digitalen Wandel nicht entziehen können. Welche Megatrends uns die nächsten Jahre erwarten.

Mayur Ramgir, an innovator and an entrepreneur, puts his Sherlock hat on and picks up Watson's pen to retrace a story of success and jot it down for the others to follow. He tells the story of how successful people found their pathway to discoveries that took them to the heights where we now see them. He tells the tale, not just of achievements, but also of failures, and more importantly, of getting back on the feet after those failures.

A framework for achieving superior rates of organic growth. Achieving superior growth through innovation is a top strategic priority for all companies. Yet most management teams struggle to reach their firm’s ambitious growth targets and suffer slow growth. What distinguishes these growth laggards from growth leaders like IBM, Nike, LEGO, American Express, Amazon, and Samsung that realize their full potential for growth? Wharton professor George S. Day shows that growth leaders use their innovation prowess to accelerate their growth at a faster rate.

What can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Capital One Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled an unlikely credit card startup to revolutionize the credit industry.

As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance.

Practical guide showing inventors how to develop, prototype, protect, and market their inventions. Bob is an engineer with over 25 years experience developing and marketing products. He used his corporate and entrepreneurial experience to develop this step-by-step guide to help fellow inventors develop their products using a "boot strapping" approach. This helps inventors to successfully develop and market their inventions without breaking the bank.