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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

This dramatic change we will all be undergoing will have a significant impact on organizations innovation management design and it requires new connected thinking” I believe innovation is in a need for change and is coming very quickly to a refraction point in how it’s going to be managed. Posted on September 21, 2011.

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Innovation fails because humans have emotions

Idea to Value

They just wanted to know what the process should be, so we can’t change that. What about the skills, relationships, team and processes we have spent years building up to make the current offering work, and which the new innovation would change? The answer I received was painful: That’s not what the client asked for.

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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. A Chief Innovation Officer can look to an organization for guidance and principles, but they also have to create meaning and excitement around change.

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How Steve Jobs predicted what would cause Apple to lose its innovative edge

Idea to Value

Apple has long been seen as one of the world’s most innovative companies, but since the passing away of Steve Jobs in 2011 it has found it much more difficult to continue innovating. However, in other industries with a slower pace of change, product improvement isn’t seen as importantly.

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2019

Innovation Excellence

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2019 was our eighth full year of operations.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. As recently as 2011 90% of Lego’s users were boys. Five Sustainable Innovation Practices that saved Lego – Leadership Network. The father of four told his colleagues, “We are on a burning platform. We’re running out of cash… and likely won’t survive.”