Corporate Innovation

Turn creativity from a hit-or-miss proposition into something you can count on with this highly-praised program. Its co-authors, Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern, are top thinkers in the field of corporate creativity and together they have advised dozens of major organizations in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Hiram Drache and Bruce Gjovig, two experts on agriculture history and innovation and entrepreneurs, have published a book about the impact of innovative entrepreneurs in North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota during the past 150 years. This book profiles 76 successful regional entrepreneurs in 65 chapters covering the Dalrymple Bonanza farm of the 1870s to today’s technology innovators.

Have you ever felt inspired to introduce a new business idea within your organization? Maybe you see new market opportunities or ways to improve existing operations, but you struggle to find your voice. This book contains inspirational stories about everyday people who work inside of existing organizations. While behaving like entrepreneurs, they managed to navigate corporate roadblocks to bring ideas to fruition. Here you will learn about: The importance of framing ideas in ways that make sense to decision makers. Impactful approaches for obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders. Effective ...

In Grow from Within, two leading scholars from the Kellogg School of Management explain how your company can discover the right approach to corporate entrepreneurship and make it profitable. Taking innovation to the next level, corporate entrepreneurship is the process of building new businesses within an established organization - new businesses that are distinct from the core company but that leverage some of its most powerful assets.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its performance improvement. Six Sigma Business Scorecard offers a unique approach to measuring performance. Listeners will learn how to track their improvements in operations and financials - and make critical adjustments if such improvements are not up to expectations - using Six Sigma. This much-needed second edition of Six Sigma Business Scorecard delivers an innovative Execution Map allowing you to implement, reap, and quantify the many advantages of Six Sigma.

Tamara Ghandour, author, podcaster, keynote speaker and founder of innovation training company LaunchStreet, used to believe that innovation was the domain of a select few, exclusive to certain industries or relegated to a specific job role. But, as Tamara discovered in her 25 years of work and research, everybody has the capacity to innovate. It's a person's unique innovation style, which can be assessed and channelled, that can transform inertia into innovation.

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.