Business Innovation

Our changing world demands creative thinkers and collaborative problem solvers, but too often, schools stifle growth and discovery in favor of getting through the curriculum or preparing for "the test." Learning opportunities and teaching methods must evolve to match the learner's needs....

The 10 Elements of Successful Change Leadership, a captivating and empowering guide that will equip you with the tools, strategies, and mindsets needed to conquer the ever-changing business landscape. Dr. Christopher Meade serves as your expert navigator, unveiling the 10 Elements of Successful Change Leadership that will propel your organization to new heights.

Is your life’s purpose fulfilled at work? You only live your life once and you spend most of your precious time at work. That’s why the company you work for determines your life’s purpose and that’s why it ought to be a great one! How can you tell? Regardless of your function, this book will help you. This book is the second in the Excellence in Business Leadership series and covers the functions of both well run great and poorly run suboptimal companies. Functions of Excellence shows the great versus suboptimal contrast through the eyes of four employees, four friends you'll get to...

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Sample Write Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems and renowned HR and leadership expert, breaks down the best practices for progressive employee discipline and structured terminations into easy-to-understand steps that will help you avoid common legal and ethical pitfalls.

A big-picture look at how the latest trends in information management and technology are impacting business models and innovation worldwide.... With all of the recent emphasis on "big data", analytics and visualization, and emerging technology architectures such as smartphone networks, social media, and cloud computing, the way we do business is undergoing rapid change. The right business model can create overnight sensations - think of Groupon, the iPad, or Facebook.

Leadership and Innovation: Navigating Business Success" is a comprehensive guide designed for entrepreneurs, business owners, and aspiring leaders seeking to forge a path to success in the competitive world of business. This ebook delves into the core principles of effective leadership and the critical role of innovation in driving business growth and sustainability. Through insightful chapters, practical strategies, and inspiring case studies, readers will learn how to cultivate a visionary leadership style, foster an innovation-driven culture, and implement actionable plans to achieve ...

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.

This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over twenty total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.

Rising to the challenges of corporate culture and leadership can feel like an impossible challenge, especially when you're striving to align your team with the company’s core values. Guess what? Creating a thriving, motivated, and resilient organization that aligns fully with your corporate vision is entirely achievable. This book is your roadmap for realizing that vision. Drawing from years of hands-on experience, the author shares insights and strategies as someone who has been in your position and understands exactly what it takes to transform your organization.

Over and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from the outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha and Ismail Amla are here to tell you that “big equals slow and stodgy” is a myth. Based on decades of experience working with both the world’s leading brands and disruptive start-ups, this audiobook explores the opportunity legacy companies have to create new markets, supercharge growth, and remake their businesses.

Based on years of solid neuroscience, quantum mechanics, complex systems theory, social science and leadership research, The New Science of Radical Innovation: The Six Competencies Leaders Need to Win in a Complex World demonstrates the ins and outs of the leadership competencies you need to jump-start and sustain radical innovation in your organization, leading to success and the results you want.

Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience endless delays? And most importantly, which products work better - the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation leads to superior equipment? In this story-filled blend of quirky pop culture and practical engineering insight, Dan Ward presents an entertaining and useful framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation.

What Matters Now is Gary Hamel's impassioned plea to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about management, the meaning of work, and organizational life. He asks, "What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead?"

In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away "for free." It is an inherently simple grassroots innovation process, unencumbered by compensated transactions and intellectual property rights.

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 ...

The employee experience has dramatically changed, catalyzed by emerging technology, remote-first and hybrid work structures, and rapidly changing business environments. Well-being at work has become an essential strategic priority, while the pressure and demands on teams to deliver results have never been greater. Leaders crave guidance to ignite more connection, innovation, and belonging at work to attract, develop, and retain top talent and discover deeper purpose at work. Creativity is the essential ingredient in today’s workplace to be more effective, joyful, and authentic.

For more than twenty years, major innovations—the kind that transform industries and even societies—seem to have come almost exclusively from startups. Established companies still dominate most markets, but despite massive efforts and millions of dollars, they can't seem to achieve the same kinds of foundational breakthroughs. The problem, say Tony Davila and Marc Epstein, is that the very processes and structures responsible for established companies' enduring success prevent them from developing breakthroughs. This is the innovation paradox.

Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap in to, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities.

Get from idea to product/market fit in B2B Startups don’t have infinite runway. To reach product/market fit, they need a solid roadmap, effective strategies to learn from their market and customers, and a framework for deciding when to pivot, and when to persevere. The issue is that most of the advice they get is either incomplete, unrealistic, misguided, or it’s just not catered to the enterprise or B2B journey. Founders can create their own processes through patchwork at the cost of trial and error, but this can easily send them sideways. What startups really need is… A proven ...

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 ...