Business Innovation

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 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.

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.

Elon Musk, der Mann hinter Tesla, Space X und PayPal, ist der ultimative Wavemaker: ein Marktführer, der nicht auf den Wellen der Innovation surft, sondern diese lieber selbst erzeugt. Und obendrein gelingt es ihm, seine Ideen stets in die Tat umzusetzen. Basierend auf fünf ebenso verrückten wie anwendbaren Erfolgsprinzipien, enthüllen Hans van der Loo und Patrick Davidson die Magie von Musk und zeigen, wie auch Sie fantastische Erfolge erzielen können. Das Hörbuch über den größten Visionär der Welt!

For a period of almost 50 years, from 1945 until the early 1990s, higher education was on an ascent. These “golden years” saw the vast expansion of the opportunity to attend college with the coming of the community college system, the GI Bill, and generous state support that made college affordable for a new generation of upwardly mobile Americans.

Kreativität gehört zu den wichtigsten Qualitäten im Vertrieb, doch nicht immer gelingt es, sie zum richtigen Zeitpunkt abzurufen. In diesem Sales-up-Call erfahren Sie deshalb, wie Sie Ihre Vertriebsmannschaft zu kreativen Höchstleistungen anspornen können.

The Ultimate Sales Revolution explains how to reach the highest level of a professional relationship and become an indispensable partner in your client's success. You attain this exalted level of trust, respect, and differentiation from your competition by ensuring that every client request and activity delivers meaningful results, builds the strongest and most sustainable client relationship, avoids the three sources of miscommunication, and delivers massive value and impact.

Every business needs to innovate, but few know where to start. ON Innovation, gives leaders 72 simple but powerful ideas they can use to create a more innovative organization. Drawing from his experience as founder and CEO at Travelocity.com and from the 10 other start-ups where he’s worked, Jones helps listeners turn innovation from an academic exercise into an everyday skill.

"Si j'avais demandé à mes clients ce qu'ils voulaient, ils m’auraient répondu 'des chevaux plus rapides' ", disait Henry Ford. Comme quoi, on ne doit pas aborder son marché à partir de clichés comme l'a peut-être fait Kodak. La compétition mondiale avait pour objet la détention des capitaux. Mais aujourd'hui c'est plutôt la culture des idées qui permet de se développer. Il s'agit de générer régulièrement des idées rupturistes.

There is no doubt that public relations (PR) can move mountains for innovation-driven companies. Though the outputs of PR can confer significant advantages on companies seeking to change the status quo, build their brand equity, and drive sales, too often common mistakes result in wasted money, finger pointing, and tattered reputations.

Inclusion is more than a moral obligation; it's a competitive advantage. Inclusive leadership expert Melissa Majors is an innovator and optimizer of inclusion, leadership, and education strategies. In The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders, she reveals how great leaders enjoy superior team performance and drive much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices. Through storytelling, research, and personal experiences, she offers a common-sense yet compelling and actionable approach to inclusion.

Successful projects don't fall from the sky. Nope, not at all. It's simple; it's cause and effect. You need to put forth the right means to get the desired results. And to get the desired project's results in today's dynamic world, you need to consider Agile project methodologies. These types of methodologies are employed by great companies around the world such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung.

A huge number of products come to store shelves every year. But many experts estimate 90 percent of them fail and leave the shelves just as quickly. Why the unpredictability? Why the failures? We believe it’s the absence of clarity, and clarity comes when all participants are willing to be vulnerably honest about their needs. The Consumer Clarity Approach is specifically designed to create the clarity required to create great ideas that meet the consumer’s real needs, and can break through the chaos in the marketplace.

The digital economy demands that high-performing and highly adaptive teams work creatively and collaboratively to identify and seize new opportunities quickly. Managers who are serious about innovation have to abandon old and broken hiring practices in order to identify and hire the right people to build the future.