Business Innovation

Forget everything you've learned about creating new businesses. Forget market research. Forget customer interviews. Forget everything business schools teach. Forget about "finding pains in the market", or gaining user empathy, or validating hypotheses.

Bina Venkataraman sees the way forward. A journalist and former adviser in the Obama White House, she helped communities and businesses prepare for climate change, and she learned firsthand why people don’t think ahead - and what can be done to change that. In The Optimist’s Telescope, she draws from stories she has reported around the world and new research in biology, psychology, and economics to explain how we can make decisions that benefit us over time.

Fintech Feminists takes listeners on a journey that unveils the profound impact of the fintech industry on our global economy, fueled by the inspiring stories of women leaders who play an integral role in reshaping the financial landscape. Written by Nicole Casperson, an award-winning journalist and leading figure in the fintech sector, this book delivers actionable strategies and insights to navigate the fintech industry, drive positive change, and contribute to the ongoing transformation of the digital era.

Unleash the full potential of your business with "Scale Wise," the ultimate guide to navigating the intricate world of business scaling. Whether you're a budding entrepreneur or a seasoned executive, this book offers invaluable insights into understanding and mastering the art of scaling operations. Dive into an illuminating journey through the core of business models, starting with small-scale operations, to the grandeur of large-scale enterprises. Each chapter meticulously unfolds the intricacies of different operational scales, empowering you to make informed decisions tailored to your ...

In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than 200 CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an organization faster, to be quick and nimble, and to rekindle the whatever-it-takes collective spark of a start-up, all with the goal of innovating and thriving in a relentlessly challenging global economy. By analyzing the lessons that these leaders have shared in his regular "Corner Office" feature in The New York Times, Bryant has identified the biggest drivers of corporate culture, bringing them to life with real-world examples that reflect this hard-earned wisdom.

As an innovator in a large company working hard to drive growth and deliver products consumers love, your size is an advantage—one that you can leverage for incredible results. But when it comes to innovation, you can’t rely on big-company strength alone. Between your company’s capabilities and the entrepreneurial ethos underscoring every successful startup lies the sweet spot for disruptive innovation, and the key to unlocking exponential growth.

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. ...

Tech insider Inbal Arieli goes against the common belief that Israel’s outstanding economic accomplishments are the byproduct of its technologically advanced military or the result of long-standing Jewish traditions of study and questioning. Rather, Arieli gives credit to the unique way Israelis are raised in a culture that supports creative thinking and risk taking. Growing up within a tribal-like community, Israelis experience childhoods purposely shaped by challenges and risks - in a culture that encourages and rewards chutzpah.

The book is written for, and from, practitioners of design and development, and reveals a proven methodology for success. All of the case histories were recognized as both award-winning products, to include the prestigious Edison Awards, as well as successfully winning in the marketplace.

Generating and executing great ideas is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly changing world. It seems so basic. Why is it so hard to actually get right? According to innovation expert Phil McKinney, the real problem is that we're teaching people to ask the wrong questions about their businesses - or none at all. There has to be a better way. In Beyond the Obvious, McKinney will help you use his proven FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Rank, Execution) Method to dig deeper and get back to asking the right questions - the ones all companies must ask to survive.

Flipping TVs is a business model that is often overlooked, but those who are getting involved and know what to look out for can make impressive additional incomes–with very little effort.

Four questions drive innovation success. You'll find them in the Value Proposition Matrix. Like the corners of a foundation, starting with four fundamental questions will put your new venture on solid footing. The Value Proposition Matrix explains how to use these questions to sharpen any business idea - be it a new product, service, or model - and chart an efficient path forward. This simple innovation methodology has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and students, and inspired some of the most respected organizations in the world, including Fortune 500 companies, major hospital systems, ...

Embark on an expedition through the digital age with "The Silicon Commandments," an eBook that is set to redefine the entrepreneurial rulebook and guide you through the intricate world of tech start-ups and innovation. This comprehensive digital tome is your golden ticket to not just understanding but mastering the multifaceted tech industry. Chapter by chapter, "The Silicon Commandments" leads you through the foundational principles that every tech entrepreneur should command. From perceiving the subtle needs of the market and forging a product that fits like a glove within its niche, to ...

Do you have important ideas to build your business and tackle some of the world’s biggest problems – but feel you aren’t being heard? If so, you’re not alone. To break through, you need to find and frame your best ideas. This book shows you how to generate a constant stream of story ideas that will position you as the go-to expert for your own business or within a large organization. You'll learn techniques for ideation, story-finding and article writing that will help you write better content to build your business or boost your career. You will learn how to: ✓Harvest your best ...

A Guide to Navigating the Creative Landscape with AI Imagine a future where your artistic muse is a digital whiz, a partner in creative crime-fighting. That's the world this book explores! We delve into the exciting possibilities of AI, not as a replacement for human creativity but as a supercharged sidekick. Think email-assassinating AI freeing you to focus on crafting masterpieces or AI composers crafting music that adapts to the mood of the audience. We explore the potential pitfalls, like AI perpetuating hidden biases, and how to navigate the ethical landscape responsibly. But most ...

When faced with new challenges, it’s easy to feel our solutions need to be equally unprecedented. We think we need a revolution. But what if this is a big mistake? In Evolutionary Ideas, Sam Tatam shows how behavioral science and evolutionary psychology can help us solve tomorrow’s challenges, not by divining something the world has never seen, but by borrowing from yesterday’s solutions–often in the most unexpected ways.

Nearly all of today’s major innovation workshops and programs call on organizations to drive innovation. What they miss is that innovation comes from the personal creativity of individuals. And creativity doesn’t require an advanced education or technical skills. All employees can be creative. Often, all they lack is a fitting mindset and the right skills.

A powerful new kind of competitive advantage is now possible thanks to technological and social disruptions that are already occurring. These disruptions revolutionize how companies can partner to create new growth. The Reciprocity Advantage shares a model for creating that growth: define your right-of-way (the underutilized resources you already own that you can share with others), partner to do what you can't do alone, experiment to learn, and scale the new business at low risk.

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First introduced in Anne Marie Knott's influential Harvard Business Review article, RQTM (Research Quotient) is a revolutionary new tool that measures a company's R&D capability - its ability to convert investment in R&D into products and services people want to buy or to reduce the cost of producing these.