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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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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

The companies which launched later but were able to quickly innovate, based on what they saw working in the new market, were the “Fast Followers” However, it was not long before research began to suggest that this First Mover advantage was not always real. It is a classic example of survivorship bias.

Strategy 257
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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three…and possibly more. So at LEANSTACK, we decided to curate these superpowers into a new framework of frameworks: The Continuous Innovation Framework. Why “Continuous” Innovation?

LEAN 76
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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Up to now we’ve gathered 71 different methodologies for implementing innovation in your organization. Innovation Cycle (Avans). The Lean Startup (Ries).

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three…and possibly more. So at LEANSTACK, we decided to curate these superpowers into a new framework of frameworks: The Continuous Innovation Framework. Why “Continuous” Innovation?

LEAN 40
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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-born systems thinking (lean). That’s it!

LEAN 100
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Start With Mindset

Leanstack

We’re already at the 10 year anniversary of the Lean Startup. ideas that went on to spark the global Lean Startup movement. I’m always happy, for instance, to see Lean Canvas posters in conference rooms. Using a Lean Canvas does not a Lean Startup make. Time flies. It’s like going from WAgile to WatLean.