Business Innovation

In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best-create physical products-with what digitals do best-use algorithms and AI to parse expansive, interconnected datasets-to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible.

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.

This isn’t just a story about nails, wood, or construction—it’s about resilience, about swinging a hammer with grit and determination until you’ve built something unbreakable. I’m Ana, and my journey started under a leaking roof, my dad’s calloused hands guiding mine to patch our home. “We fix what’s ours,” he’d rumble, his voice a bedrock of motivation beneath the storm, and those words ignited a fire in me—a spark of perseverance that turned a broke twenty-two-year-old with a junkyard shed into a legacy of craftsmanship and empowerment. I didn’t plan to write a ...

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization's products or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

For more than two decades, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. Robert G. Cooper demonstrates why consistent product development is vital to corporate growth and how to maximize your chances of success. Citing the author's most recent research, Winning at New Products showcases innovative practices by industry leaders to present a field-tested game plan for achieving product leadership.

Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach.

As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative 20 years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity's greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it.

In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now.

En marzo de 2020, a punto de que el mundo colapsara por una pandemia global, Carlos Master Muñoz sólo pensaba en una idea: «¿Cómo puedo hacerle frente a esta crisis y salir ganando?» La respuesta sigue siendo la misma: innovando. Como resultado, en lugar de perder dinero, Muñoz vivió el mejor año de su vida en términos financieros. La innovación salvó su vida y sus negocios en aquel año que para muchos fue nefasto.Y si tú entiendes esto, algo parecido te sucederá a ti. Para eso ha escrito este libro.

Leadership is a set of abilities with which a lucky few are born. They're the natural relationship builders, master negotiators and persuaders, and agile and strategic thinkers. The good news for the rest of us is that those abilities can be developed. In The Leader's Brain: Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire Greater Innovation with Neuroscience, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative Director Michael Platt explains how.

A startup enxuta é um modelo de negócio que vem sendo amplamente adotado ao redor do mundo, mudando de maneira como companhias idealizam produtos e seus serviços. Pioneiro na implementação abordagem, Eric Ries define a startup como uma organização dedicada a criar algo novo sob condições incertas - e isso inclui tanto o jovem empreendedor que trabalha nessa oficina de casa quanto o profissional experiente em uma multinacional. Neste livro, Ries reúne histórias reais e exemplos de empresas que se transformaram ao implementar esse modelo revolucionário.

Beyond Survival: Strategic Resilience with ISO 22301 for the C-Suite How Business Leaders Use Continuity Planning to Drive Growth, Innovation, and Competitive PowerIntroduction: In today’s volatile business environment, survival is no longer enough. Organizations need strategic resilience to thrive, innovate, and maintain a competitive edge. "Beyond Survival: Strategic Resilience with ISO 22301 for the C-Suite" offers a comprehensive guide to mastering ISO 22301, the international standard for business continuity management. It delves into how business leaders, particularly C-suite ...

Using real-life practical experiences, serial entrepreneur and thought leader Faisal Hoque teams up with journalist Drake Baer to provide a personal and professional playbook that is part philosophy, part business, and part history. Everything Connects offers the wisdom of 2,500-year-old Eastern philosophies and the interconnected insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Couple that with Fortune 100 corporate cross pollination for creativity and startup thinking for how to adapt with ease, and you'll quickly discover that everything connects.

Highly acclaimed author, trainer, and presenter Paul Sloane demonstrates how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture, and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. With a lively, energetic and practical approach, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and reveal how to put the techniques to work immediately.

In this book, Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth examples from companies operating in various industries, Connected Strategy identifies the four pathways - respond-to-desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution - for turning episodic interactions into continuous relationships. The authors show how each pathway creates a competitive advantage, then guide you through the critical decisions for creating and implementing your own connected strategies.

In 2006, John Warren and John Thompson led Marines into combat in the world’s most dangerous city: Ramadi, Iraq. But when they got home, employers didn’t understand what they had to offer. Undeterred, they founded their own specialty mortgage company, growing it from scratch into a national powerhouse over the course of a decade.

In the world of work, the single greatest asset of successful individuals, teams, and organizations is their mindset - what happens in between their ears. It's not the corporate strategy, the sales compensation plan, or the market segments they're pursuing. It is what each leader, team member, and employee chooses to focus on, to believe, and to create for themselves and others.

The System Is Failing Patients. Will You Stand By and Watch? Every day, we see patients trapped in a system that was never designed to heal them. They’ve done everything the medical industry told them to do— They’ve taken the pain pills. They’ve tried injections that offered only temporary relief.Some have even gone under the knife—only to wake up in more pain than before. And now, they’re sitting in your office, desperate for an answer. The 60-year-old with crippling knee pain, told surgery is the only option. The young mom who just wanted relief—but got hooked on pain meds ...

En el Kamasutra de la sexualidad se requiere una flexibilidad física fuera de serie, pero yo no alcanzo a hacer ni la mitad de las posiciones. Lo bueno es que en El Kamasutra de la innovación no necesitarás una gran flexibilidad física, sino mental, porque llegarás a soluciones que nunca antes te habías imaginado.

Dive into "The Operating Partner Playbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Total Value Creation in Private Equity" by Mohamad Chahine, a seasoned veteran in the realms of Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital. This engaging guide takes you on a journey through the dynamic landscape of private equity, offering a perfect blend of informative insights and witty anecdotes that captivate not only industry players but also CEOs and aspiring entrepreneurs. Chahine, drawing from over two decades of global experience across four continents and 20 countries, unveils the intricate world of PE through a ...