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21. |  Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It, Updated Edition By: Tony Davila Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 09-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 25-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It, Updated Edition 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 ordinary managers drive
top and bottom line growth from innovation. The authors have drawn
on their unsurpassed innovation consulting experience -- as well as
the most thorough review of innovation research ever performed.
They'll show what works, what doesn't, and how to use management
tools to dramatically increase the payoff...
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22. |  By: Brian McDermott; Gerry Sexton Publisher: Nova Vista Publishing Publication Date: 21-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Innovation Learn how to create a culture of perpetual innovation and ensure sustainable excellence. For leaders and managers who believe people are their organization’s most important asset....
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23. |  By: Mel Carson; Paul Springer Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 21-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pioneers of Digital Pioneers of Digital is about those individuals who have truly altered the way advertising, marketing and other communications industries operate. It features twenty inspirational interviews with those who have defined digital formats and campaigns, revealing the stories behind the groundbreaking ideas and creative ingenuity that have shaped the digital world. The pioneers profiled in the book come from the seemingly unrelated fields of design, gaming, music, journalism, branding, search and social networking but they were the first to realize the potential of the...
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24. |  IT-basiertes Innovationsmanagement By: Josephine Hofmann Publisher: dpunkt Publication Date: 15-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 05-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IT-basiertes Innovationsmanagement
Innovationen sind der Treibstoff für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und damit die Zukunft unserer hoch entwickelten Wissensgesellschaft. Lässt sich der – mehr oder weniger geordnete – Prozess der Innovationsentwicklung in all seinen Phasen, vom Trendscouting, der Ideenbewertung bis hin zur Marktreife neuer Produkte und Dienstleistungen, mit IT unterstützen, systematisieren, wirtschaftlicher gestalten? Bietet auch hier das Internet mit seiner Fähigkeit zur Mobilisierung seiner vielen Nutzer, dem Angebot von vielfältigen Kommunikations- und Ratingmöglichkeiten, dem Zugriff auf das weltweite...
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25. |  Lean Startup: Adoptez l'innovation continue By: Eric Ries Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 04-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lean Startup: Adoptez l'innovation continue
Un livre déjà culte dans le monde des entrepreneurs !
En appliquant les grands principes du lean management au développement de nouveaux produits, Eric Ries a mis au point une méthode qui change radicalement la donne pour tous ceux qui souhaitent créer une entreprise ou développer un nouveau projet : le Lean Startup. Cette approche révolutionnaire permet en effet d'adapter constamment son offre mais aussi son entreprise aux évolutions du marché, en suivant le principe de l'innovation continue.
Dans cet ouvrage, Eric Ries expose sa méthodologie et l'illustre de nombreux exemples...
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26. |  By: RICHARD BRYNTESON Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 05-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 01-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Innovation at Work More and more organizations are realizing that the only hope for survival in an ultracompetitive landscape is through innovation: developing new and better products and services—and creating efficient processes for delivering them. Designed for managers, team leaders, and trainers looking to promote innovation at work, the book is packed with 55 activities to help participants:
• Employ “visioning” and “brainwriting” processes to achieve breakthroughs
• Cultivate a sense of curiosity and inquisitiveness
• Utilize methods of deep observation
• Build networks for open source innovation and...
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27. |  By: Victor Fey; Eugene Rivin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 06-OCT-2005 Insert Date: 29-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Innovation on Demand
This book describes a revolutionary methodology for enhancing technological innovation called TRIZ. The TRIZ methodology is increasingly being adopted by leading corporations around the world to enhance their competitive position. The authors explain how the TRIZ methodology harnesses creative principles extracted from thousands of successful patented inventions to help you find better, more innovative, solutions to your own design problems. You'll learn how to use TRIZ tools for conceptual development of novel technologies, products and manufacturing processes. In particular, you'll...
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28. |  Winning at New Products: Creating Value Through Innovation By: Robert G. Cooper Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 21-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Winning at New Products: Creating Value Through Innovation
Developing true innovations and bold new products is a challenge in today's business environment, leading many companies to shift toward smaller, less ambitious innovation attempts. In this book, Dr. Cooper reveals the critical success factors in product innovation and outlines Stage-Gate®, the most widely-used roadmap for successfully launching new products to market. Cooper also brings key insights on picking the right projects, on how top innovators have adapted the Stage-Gate process, and how you can be 'Winning at New Products'. Dr. Cooper returns with this updated and expanded 4th...
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29. |  The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion By: John Hagel III; John Seely Brown; Lang Davison Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 23-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
In a radical break with the past, information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into its stream. Individuals and companies can no longer rely on the stocks of knowledge that they’ve carefully built up and stored away. Information now flows like water, and we must learn how to tap into the stream. But many of us remain stuck in old practices—practices that could undermine us as we search for success and meaning. In this revolutionary book, three doyens of the Internet age, whose path-breaking work has made headlines around the world, reveal the adjustments we must make...
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30. |  By: Jeff Davidson Publisher: Adams Media Publication Date: 18-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The 60 Second Innovator
When the economy’s in free fall, the strongest competitors are the ones rooted in innovation. Today, managers are screaming for innovators who can break through to the next level of business and technology. In sixty succinct, humorous tips, Jeff Davidson helps you learn the practices that will make you a great innovator, such as: Develop the qualities all innovators share Embrace change Enhance out-of-the-box thinking Find new solutions to old problems Be a business innovator as well as a team player This guide doesn’t just show you how to think outside of the box—it shows you how...
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31. |  By: Mary Scannell; Mike Mulvilhill Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 19-APR-2012 Insert Date: 24-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Spark the next great business idea by igniting your team’s passion and creativity
Innovating breakthrough products, services, solutions, and marketing ideas are some of the most important challenges you face as a manager. Don’t wrack your brain trying to catch that “eureka” moment alone; unleash your team’s creative power with The Big Book of Brainstorming Games.
This book is packed with physical and verbal exercises to help you organize and run a brainstorming session that engages all personality types. Get those creative juices flowing with expert guidance and dozens of enjoyable group...
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32. |  By: Jeffrey Phillips Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 09-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 24-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Relentless Innovation You can’t ask for more than efficient, effective operations.
Or can you?
Given today’s business landscape—increasing customer demand, global competition, lower trade barriers—being good isn’t enough. This groundbreaking guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to transform your organization from a well-run company to a relentlessly innovative company.
Innovation expert Jeffrey Phillips has helped businesses around the world achieve the dream—the implementation of innovation as a consistent business discipline. In Relentless Innovation, he reveals his secrets for the first...
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33. |  The Social Innovation Imperative By: Sandra M. Bates Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 20-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 24-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Social Innovation Imperative “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 pressing social issues. This is a foundational guide to changing the world that will be referenced for years to come.”
—Michael Reynolds, Vice President, Product Development and Management, Cigna Health Care
“Advancing the works of Clayton Christensen, Tony Ulwick, and others, Bates gives us a systematic approach for...
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34. |  By: Katherine Holt; Tom Bepler; Kate Grace MacElveen; Carol Stoner Publisher: American Society for Training & Development Publication Date: 01-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 22-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lead the Green Evolution
As a trainer and educator, you may be looked to for information and leadership in driving a green initiative in your organization. This Infoline is designed to help trainers take personal and professional action to lead the green evolution. After talking about going green at a personal level, you will learn about current efforts that are under way. You will then learn about steps you can take to start a green initiative at your organization. This Infoline will help you learn about green initiatives and find out what others are doing, identify opportunities to green your office and your...
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35. |  Innovative Knowledge Management By: Alan Eardley; Lorna Uden Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Innovative Knowledge Management Knowledge and creativity are now the major driving forces behind pioneering companies that are achieving competitive edge crucial to competing in today''s economy. Innovative Knowledge Management: Concepts for Organizational Creativity and Collaborative Design provides a valuable resource for promoting current academic discourse on innovation in knowledge-intensive organizations and contexts. A defining collection of field advancements, this Premier Reference Source creatively showcases wide-ranging issues relevant to the use of knowledge management....
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36. |  Innovations in Mobile Multimedia Communications and Applications By: Ismail Khalil; Edgar Weippl Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2011 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Innovations in Mobile Multimedia Communications and Applications We are living in a world of mobile multimedia. The field of mobile computing and multimedia is expanding in an unprecedented pace. Indicators are the rapidly increasing penetration of the smart phones and other mobile devices market around the world, which is growing nearly twice as fast as the desktop market. Mobile multimedia is the set of protocols and standards for multimedia information exchange over wireless networks. It enables information systems to process and transmit multimedia data to provide the end user with services from various areas, such as the mobile working place, mobile...
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37. |  By: Soren Kaplan Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leapfrogging Today’s business climate demands breakthroughs, not incremental improvements. What makes one leader or company thrive while others languish in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing marketplace? There’s no doubt hard work is involved, but Soren Kaplan shows you can’t do it by simply creating a big vision and implementing a set plan. In his trailblazing debut, Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace surprise—the new key to business breakthroughs.
Instead of fighting against uncertainty, Kaplan reveals how to use it to break down limiting...
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38. |  Creating Breakthrough Products: Revealing the Secrets that Drive Global Innovation, (Second Edition) By: Jonathan Cagan; Craig M. Vogel Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 16-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 28-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creating Breakthrough Products: Revealing the Secrets that Drive Global Innovation, (Second Edition) For years, Jonathan Cagan’s and Craig
M. Vogel’s Creating Breakthrough Products has offered
an indispensable roadmap for uncovering new opportunities,
identifying what customers really value, and building products and
services that redefine markets — or create entirely new
markets. Now, the authors have thoroughly updated their classic
book, adding new chapters on service design and global innovation,
plus new insights, best practices, and case studies from both U.S.
and global companies. Their new Second Edition compares
revolutionary (Apple-style) and evolutionary (Disney-style)
approaches...
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39. |  Les secrets d'innovation de Steve Jobs: 7 principes pour penser autrement By: Carmine Gallo Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 23-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Les secrets d'innovation de Steve Jobs: 7 principes pour penser autrement
L'iPod en 2004, l'iPhone en 2007, l'iPad en 2010... Steve Jobs n'a cessé de proposer au public des produits révolutionnaires. Sa capacité d'innovation est légendaire et son talent n'a cessé d'impressionner, et malgré des difficultés de tout ordre, il a enchaîné les succès. Pourquoi ?
Le fameux « Think different » est bien plus qu'un slogan. C'est une vision sans précédent. Un style dynamique et décalé qui symbolise la manière dont Steve Jobs a abordé la conception d'un produit ou la relation client.
Vous cherchez des idées pour repenser votre entreprise, réinventer vos produits ou...
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40. |  Intelligent and Knowledge-Based Computing for Business and Organizational Advancements By: Hideyasu Sasaki; Dickson K.W. Chiu; Epaminondas Kapetanios; Patrick Hung; Frederic Andres; Ho-fung Leung; Richard Chbeir Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Intelligent and Knowledge-Based Computing for Business and Organizational Advancements As organizations, businesses, and other institutions work to move forward during a new era of ubiquitous modern technology, new computing and technology implementation strategies are necessary to harness the shared knowledge of individuals to advance their organizations as a whole.<br><b>Intelligent and Knowledge-Based Computing for Business and Organizational Advancements</b> examines the emerging computing paradigm of Collective Intelligence (CI). The global contributions contained in this publication will prove to be essential to both researchers and practitioners in the computer and...
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