Business Innovation

Social innovation and entrepreneurship are rising forces in the world. As stakeholder capitalism takes root, and as the extent of systemic challenges becomes clear - from climate change to income inequality to food security to health care and beyond - more and more of the best and brightest will hear the calling to become innovators and entrepreneurs who develop and deploy solutions to the world's thorniest problems.

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working together. In its current form, lean has been radically effective, but its true powers have yet to be harnessed. The Lean Strategy harnesses that power and delivers a new way of creating value from lean.

In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.

Have you ever wondered why the best ideas come from unexpected places? Bottom-Up Breakthrough reveals how the untapped insights of everyday team members can spark revolutionary change. Discover the secret to transforming overlooked voices into powerful drivers of innovation, challenging traditional hierarchies and unlocking unprecedented potential in any organization. What if the key to breakthrough innovation isn’t top-down mandates but a simple shift in communication? Have you considered that the frontline insights you ignore could be the missing ingredient for success?

Delve deep into the dynamic world of venture capital with this comprehensive audiobook bundle. "Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation" demystifies the complex relationship between venture capital and groundbreaking innovations. In "The Business of Venture Capital," gain expert insights into the fundamental principles and practical approaches that shape the venture capital industry. Together, these audiobooks provide a holistic view of venture capital, covering both the strategic and operational aspects of funding innovative businesses.

Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices.

Life is not exactly a bed of roses for most innovation leaders and intrapreneurs - those assertive, innovative, corporate risk-takers who passionately turn ideas into profitable products. They take on corporate sacred cows and face down challenges that would cause less driven and less talented people to quickly throw their hands down in defeat. They struggle daily to unleash entrepreneurial thinking while dealing with an army of people fiercely dedicated to maintaining the status quo.

Drawing on the knowledge and experience of working with hundreds the world's top social change leaders in all fields, Beverly Schwartz presents a model for change based on five proven principles that any individual leader or organization can apply to bring about deep, lasting, and systematic change. Rippling shows how to activate the type of change that is needed to address the critical challenges that threaten to destroy the foundations of our society and planet in these increasingly turbulent times.

What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organisation to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new-something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible.

What if the most powerful business asset you’ll own isn’t your team, your technology, or even your intellectual property—but your prompts? In “Prompt to the Future,” Daniel Kim reveals how AI frameworks are fundamentally reshaping innovation and business. Through vivid personal experiences—from late-night epiphanies with AI-generated music to building Meteor, an AI-powered book creation platform—Kim demonstrates why we’re experiencing nothing less than “the end of innocence” in our relationship with technology. This isn’t another cautionary tale about AI replacing ...

Unlocking Excellence: 25+ Years of Insights on Leadership and Personal Growth as Your Blueprint for Success Are you ready to unlock your potential and accelerate your success? Unlocking Excellence combines 25+ years of personal notes, lessons learned, and practical insights from leadership, innovation, and high performance into one powerful blueprint for personal and professional growth. This book offers actionable steps, backed by scientific research and real-world examples, to help you become a better leader, master personal growth, and develop the grit needed to overcome challenges. ...

Here's how you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth, whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job. Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share growth of 12 percent. Through eye-opening stories, A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan show how P&G and companies such as Honeywell, Nokia, LEGO, GE, HP, and DuPont have become game-changers.

In Defying Reality, David M. Ewalt traces the story of virtual reality from ancient amphitheaters to Cold War military laboratories, through decades of hype and failure, to a 19-year-old video game aficionado who made the impossible possible. Ewalt looks at how businesses are already using this tech to revolutionize the world around us, and what we can expect in the future. Ewalt offers a unique perspective on VR. With firsthand accounts and on-the-ground reporting, Defying Reality shows how VR will change our work, our play, and the way we relate to one another.

>The Innovation Book is your roadmap to creating powerful innovations that deliver success in a competitive world. With a practical, bite-size format, Mckeown will help you tackle the really important challenges and seize the most-valuable opportunities. The Innovation Book includes 24 of the most powerful tools and models to help innovators, game changers, mavericks, and revolutionaries make new ideas useful.

Whether you are a business owner, director, or entrepreneur, The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Innovation enables you to progress the right ideas with the greatest opportunity for your business, and to invest your time in developing new concepts and ideas that will give you a robust way forward.

Peter Drucker’s succinct summary of his book, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, considered the best book on entrepreneurship of all time. Discusses the seven areas for new businesses from the easiest to the most challenging.

The Ways to New gives you a blueprint for innovation, helping you dig your organization out of the quicksand and get on the fast track to growth. Author Jean-Marie Dru is the originator of the disruption methodology, which he shares here; he is also an international authority on breaking the mold and leading the market, and this audiobook is his guide to making it happen. Too many companies are too slow with innovation. They lag behind, creating at a snail's pace, and thus miss out on any kind of organic growth.

We live in an age of exponential technology, but this is not so new. Indeed, technological innovation has been promoted so assiduously for so long that there is now a discernible pattern to its emergence known as the Gartner Hype Cycle. Open innovation is no exception. In this book, Henry Chesbrough, the originator of open innovation, examines the hype behind its practice, shows where real results are taking place, and explains how companies can move beyond the hype to achieve real business results.

In the ever-evolving landscape of regulations, where every new situation not previously regulated gives rise to a cascade of new and potentially high regulations, "Cutting Through Chaos: A Blueprint for Regulation" emerges as a guiding beacon. This book transcends the ordinary and offers readers a transformative journey through the intricate dance between compliance and innovation. Delving into the heart of the chaos that this perpetual expansion of rules can create, this blueprint unveils real-world examples, laying bare the tangible impact on businesses and economies. It doesn't just ...

How do Amazon, Apple, Google, Nike, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, and The Walt Disney Company grow better and faster than others in the same industry? In Upstream Marketing, authors Tim Koelzer and Kristin Kurth share best practices, research, case studies, and analysis informed by their more than twenty years of experience helping transform client brands and businesses through their work at EquiBrand Consulting, a top management consultancy. The result is a groundbreaking deep-dive into the fundamentals of upstream marketing.