Product Innovation

Practical. Challenging. Well-researched and unflinchingly candid, this book—based on a decade-long study—provides leaders at all levels an actionable framework for building cultures that support higher levels of engagement and innovation. Choose Love, Not Fear challenges listeners to overcome a history of fear-based processes that unnecessarily render us less capable, restrict what we see, and narrow what we believe is possible. This book shows how the best leaders build teams where love and positive emotion are the foundation of making the rhetoric of engagement a reality.

This small but powerful book takes on the conventional thinking that says more resources are the answer to new product delys - helping you to see what is really going on as your organization seeks to innovate and launch new products. In an open and straight-talking manner, it teaches you to challenges the premises undermining your performance. Then, it shares strategies that strike directly at the root causes, so you can start taking action immediately.

In their book, PropTech 101, authors Aaron Block and Zach Aarons present an insightful narrative into the PropTech and real estate industry in effort to help ensure that you don’t get left behind in the wave of change. This is not an exhaustive look at PropTech; it is, rather, a broad overview of basic history, dynamics, key stakeholders, and trends that serves as a set of keys that will open the door and let you into the PropTech space so that you can begin to explore it with confidence and a mental map of the most important contours.

For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed into the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations - people do.

Through interviews with successful product designers and inventors from around the world, and case studies of products from their local inception to their global success, The Future of Design will answer these important questions and provide a robust framework for activating innovative thinking that goes beyond Western approaches to creativity and innovation.

If you're a young adult or new adult considering entrepreneurship, "Reclaim Your Inner Entrepreneur" is a must-read. It provides practical advice, inspirational stories, and a roadmap to success that will help you reclaim your inner entrepreneur and achieve your dreams. Starting a company can be an intimidating process, especially for first-time entrepreneurs. With so many unknowns, it's easy to get overwhelmed and feel like success is out of reach. This book takes a refreshing perspective on entrepreneurship, debunking the myth that you need a concrete idea, massive funding, and a big-bang...

A short, practical guide showing you how to find the right market for your product or innovation The market a startup chooses to pursue has a significant influence on its odds of finding success. Pick a strong market with customers that value the unique benefits of your product or innovation, and hypergrowth might follow. Pick the wrong market, and everything will feel like a slug... You'll have to fight for every call. Every meeting. Every demo. Every client. Your team won't be excited. And you'll have a hard time staying motivated... In spite of the importance of picking the right market,...

The Innovation Mandate offers a clear and straightforward pathway to profitable innovation. It demystifies the concept, making it easy to understand, implement, and measure. The audiobook centers around three simple concepts: Innovation generates profits; innovation, in the form of new, profitable ideas, can come from anywhere; and identifying, harnessing, evaluating, and implementing these new ideas cannot be left to chance. Additionally, the audiobook offers a five-point checklist to ensure your company is innovation ready.

In today’s frenetic, uncertain world, the “same old, same old” routines are perfect ways to go nowhere fast. What has worked for you before - professionally or personally - no longer gets results. Whether you’ve been downsized, reached the end of a long relationship, or found yourself questioning where you are in life, it’s clear you need to change. To innovate. Make it new. Make yourself new. Now, in this invaluable audiobook, the world-renowned “Dean of Innovation”, Jeff DeGraff, shares his tried-and-true techniques on how to reinvent yourself.

Today the market entry for new ideas and entrepreneurs is easier than ever as the digital age is reshaping how business is done. Through digitalization, the business environment has become highly open and widely connected. The combinations of digital technologies like edge computing and artificial intelligence, AI, enable new business model opportunities. In this fast-changing environment, the most important thing is to learn as fast as possible what to do next and what is worth doing at all.

Before a successful business can come to life, it must first be an idea. It can be difficult generating ideas that are fresh, unique, and profitable on a consistent basis. Imagine being able to come up with new, inspiring business ideas that are quick to become profitable. Imagine becoming an infinite well of ideas for new projects, new or existing ventures, and ways to solve challenges. This program is designed to help you unlock your idea generation skills.

Despite the familiar limitations many User Experience teams face—budget and time constraints, lack of formal authority—UX practitioners are uniquely poised to provide strategic value to product organizations. This case study describes how we developed “Creative Bursts” to prove that our organization could look to its UX team for innovation leadership.

A huge number of products come to store shelves every year. But many experts estimate 90 percent of them fail and leave the shelves just as quickly. Why the unpredictability? Why the failures? We believe it’s the absence of clarity, and clarity comes when all participants are willing to be vulnerably honest about their needs. The Consumer Clarity Approach is specifically designed to create the clarity required to create great ideas that meet the consumer’s real needs, and can break through the chaos in the marketplace.

Discover the Game Designer Within! The journey to designing your own board game starts here with The 20-Hour Game Design Challenge. The challenge is to dive into your creativity and bring your ideas to life in just 20 hours! Inside this guide, you’ll find: Self-Discovery for Game Design: Techniques to explore your unique creative approach. Quick-Start Guidance: Step-by-step advice to transform ideas into a playable game. Inspiring Case Studies: Learn from successful games and what makes them memorable. Expert Strategies: Tips to overcome design challenges and stay motivated. All-in-One ...

This audiobook starts where other books about innovation end. Martin has witnessed more than 100 bankruptcies from the inside and more than 600 failed product ideas over 27 years. As such it's Martin’s calling to produce materials that guide support professionals through the minefields that come with innovation and hopefully avoid those pitfalls with his guidance.