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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

However, very few managers are able to explain their company’s business model ad-hoc, and even fewer can define what a business model actually is in general. Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015).

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How Business Travel Spurs Innovation

Michael Roberto

The scholars collected data from over 5,000 airports around the world over a ten-year period (2005-2015). Companies clearly have adopted a range of improved communication technologies since 2020, and managers have become more adept at using these technologies. percent increase in new patents between firms in those places."

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Walmart: How an Innovator in Arkansas Continues to Change our World

IdeaScale

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, an unlikely corporation spearheaded the relief effort. Later the company would buy aircraft second-hand to fly managers out to stores. In 2005, the company’s CEO decided to set the company on a path to becoming completely green, with no waste and the stores running on renewable power.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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PLM Re-Birth at McDonald’s: How to Maximize Value in a Decentralized Organization

Innovation Excellence

[note these videos are from 2015]. McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast food restaurant chain, began its product lifecycle management (PLM) journey in 2005. To maximize the value of their PLM initiatives, they moved the decentralized organization to a common platform, establishing PLM as their enterprise risk management tool.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2005 more…. Managing Distributed Innovation (Bogers). Managing Unsolicited Ideas (Alexey). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2015 more….