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81. |  By: Cynthia B Rabe Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 17-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 27-JUN-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
For true innovation, you may need to think outside the box and outside the company.
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82. |  By: Tim Jones; Caroline Dewing Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 18-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 26-MAY-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Future Agenda
Future Agenda is a unique multi-disciplinary resource that brings together some of the best minds from around the globe to address the great challenges of the next decade. It maps out the major issues, identifies and debates potential solutions and suggests the best ways forward. Future Agenda provides a platform for collective innovation at a higher level than ever before. As the world responds to accelerating challenges, organisations need clearer and more informed views of the future so that they can place intelligent, strategic and innovative bets. They need to look beyond their...
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Business Innovation Insights (Collection) Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 11-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 15-MAY-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Innovation Insights (Collection)
3 extraordinary books help you drive
maximum value from business innovation, design, and
creativity!
Predictable Magic: Unleash the Power of
Design Strategy to Transform Your Business introduces a
breakthrough process for crafting rewarding, empowering customer
experiences that create deep emotional connections with your
products, services, and brands. Do You Matter?: How Great Design
Will Make People Love Your Company shows how to build a truly
design-driven company: one that can consistently create designs
that drive sustainable business performance improvements. Finally,
in Disrupt:...
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NASA's New Innovation Framework By: Alpheus Bingham ; Dwayne Spradlin Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 21-APR-2011 Insert Date: 24-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: NASA's New Innovation Framework 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 approach to collaboration and
problem-solving—and the lessons for your organization.
A radio frequency engineer from rural New
Hampshire contributed the best solution to a public challenge
issued by NASA’s Space Life Sciences Directorate. As Aneesh
Chopra, Federal CTO put it, his idea “blew away the others
whose ideas were under...
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By: Alpheus Bingham; Dwayne Spradlin Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 21-APR-2011 Insert Date: 24-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Long Tail of Expertise 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.
Use the “long tail” concept to
find high-value innovation and expertise where you never expected
it.
The Long Tail concept has found applications
in marketing, inventory, and beyond. We invoke it to illustrate
observations broadly applicable to innovation and to expertise in
general. Though I’m not an “expert plumber,” I
do know more than many people; and others know more than...
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86. |  Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era By: Henry Chesbrough Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 18-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 11-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era The father of "open innovation" is back with his most significant book yet. Henry Chesbrough's acclaimed book Open Innovation described a new paradigm for management in the 21st century. Open Services Innovation offers a new approach that demonstrates how open innovation combined with a services approach to business is an effective and powerful way to grow and compete in our increasingly services-driven economy. Chesbrough shows how companies in any industry can make the critical shift from product- to service-centric thinking, from closed to open innovation where co-creating with customers...
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87. |  Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results By: Frances Hesselbein; Marshall Goldsmith; Iain Somerville Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-OCT-2001 Insert Date: 01-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results
In this second volume of The Drucker Foundation's Wisdom to Action Series, twenty-seven remarkable thought leaders help today's leaders meet the challenge of releasing the power of innovation. Leading for Innovation brings together Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Collins, Howard Gardner, Charles Handy, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, C. William Pollard, Margaret Wheatley, and other thought leaders to offer you practical guidance on leading your organization to a new dimension of performance. This unprecedented collection explores the unique qualities required to lead innovators, and shows you the way to...
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88. |  Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity By: Josh Linkner Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 22-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity
A 5-part process that will transform your organization — or your career — into a non-stop creativity juggernaut
We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity-at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz — as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and...
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89. |  Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Designs By: Yun Wan Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2009 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Designs
Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Designs provides a collection of comprehensive research articles on the latest technologies involved with online consumer services. This Premier Reference Source provides e-commerce and agent technology researchers, academicians, and practitioners with a useful overview as well as references to the latest advancements in the field.
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90. |  By: Nathan Shedroff Publisher: Rosenfeld Media Publication Date: 01-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Design Is The Problem Design is the Problem examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can alter their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions....
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Ubiquitous Computing for Business Innovation By: Bo Begole Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ubiquitous Computing for Business Innovation 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 add
value in a world where computing is already ubiquitous.
Computing has always been about creating
results for human use, but in the past, the primary bottlenecks
were technical. Today, the bottlenecks are primarily human:
cognitive limitations of users, legal and policy constraints on
data access, and the economic objectives...
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92. |  The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change By: Jennifer Aaker; Andy Smith; Carlye Adler Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 28-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change
Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change
Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book
Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work...
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93. |  Cases on Technology Innovation: Entrepreneurial Successes and Pitfalls By: S. Ann Becker; Robert E. Niebuhr Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cases on Technology Innovation: Entrepreneurial Successes and Pitfalls
Cases on Technology Innovation: Entrepreneurial Successes and Pitfalls is a compilation of theory, research, and practice in the areas of technology transfer, innovation, and commercialization. It includes illustrations and examples of entrepreneurial successes and pitfalls in university, industry, government, and international settings. Its main focus is on the technological innovation of products and services to meet the virtual demands of an international marketplace, therefore making it ideal for everyone from researchers and professors to business executives and technical staff.
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94. |  Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Fang Zhao Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 03-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation
It has become a widely-recognized fact that entrepreneurs and information technology have become the backbone of the world economy. The increasing penetration of IT in society and in most of industries/businesses, as well as the joining forces of entrepreneurship and innovation in the economy, reinforce the need for a leading and authoritative research handbook to disseminate leading edge findings about entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of IT from an international perspective.
Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents current studies on the nature,...
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95. |  The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise By: Alpheus Bingham; Dwayne Spradlin Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-APR-2011 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise 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 book introduces
groundbreaking strategies and models for consistently achieving
this goal.
Authors Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin
draw on their own experience building InnoCentive, the pioneering
global platform for open innovation (a.k.a. "crowdsourcing").
Writing for business executives, R&D leaders, and...
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96. |  Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business, First edition By: Luke Williams Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 08-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 21-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business, First edition For more and more companies in a world
that's changing fast, there’s only one way to win the game:
transform it entirely. For anyone who wants to thrive in this
new order, this requires a revolution in thinking--a steady stream
of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions. Disrupt:
Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your
Business shows how to generate and execute those solutions--a
disruptive approach for a disruptive age.
Author Luke Williams demonstrates his experience creating
disruptive products and services at frog design, one of the
world’s leading innovation...
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97. |  Intellectual Capital and Technological Innovation: Knowledge-Based Theory and Practice By: Pedro López Sáez; Gregorio Martín de Castro; José Emilio Navas López; Miriam Delgado Verde Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 19-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Intellectual Capital and Technological Innovation: Knowledge-Based Theory and Practice
Intellectual Capital and Technological Innovation: Knowledge-Based Theory and Practice provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings to improve understanding of the current innovation processes from the knowledge based perspective, giving special attention to both the intellectual capital assets that intervene in it, and the social capital that surrounds and enhances or hinders this phenomenon. This book has particular relevance for mangers, academics and consultants benefiting from a thorough understanding of intellectual capital and social capital as...
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What Disruptive Thinking Is, and Why You Should Be Doing It By: Luke Williams Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 15-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 24-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What Disruptive Thinking Is, and Why You Should Be Doing It This Element is an excerpt from Disrupt:
Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business
(9780137025145) by Luke Williams. Available in print and digital
formats.
Why incremental change is a recipe for
disaster–and what your business must do instead.
Successful companies often embrace
incremental change because it supports their current business
model. Big mistake. When a business makes only incremental changes,
they’re on a path that gets narrower and narrower.
Eventually, they reach the end–and by then, their customers
have forsaken them for a new offering that nobody saw...
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99. |  The Going Lean Fieldbook: A Practical Guide to Lean Transformation and Sustainable Success By: Stephen A Ruffa Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 01-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 25-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Going Lean Fieldbook: A Practical Guide to Lean Transformation and Sustainable Success
A companion guide to the book that showed how organizations can become lean, innovative money machinesain good times and bad.
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100. |  Breakthrough!: A 7-Step System for Developing Unexpected and Profitable Ideas By: Paul Kurnit; Steve Lance Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 20-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 18-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Breakthrough!: A 7-Step System for Developing Unexpected and Profitable Ideas
Finally a user's guide for thinking outside the box.
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