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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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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance. 2015: Innovate Your State. Taking Ten New Technologies to Market. We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year.

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

Increasingly we are seeing a growing dissatisfaction on the impact that innovation is having; in growth, in returns, in market and customer impact. Posted on September 25, 2015. Moving towards a new innovation service model, Posted on August 12, 2015. A new innovation perspective – change to fluidity, Posted on June 29, 2015.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

By 2015 Amazon Web Services was the world’s leading provider of Cloud infrastructure services. In 2013 it announced plans for drone deliveries. In 2014 Amazon entered the smartphone market with the release of the Fire Phone. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. It produced its own TV and Film features.

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Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Adam Hartung

A Banks jumped onto the list as #4 in 2013. And, of course, Radio Shack made the list in 2012 (#3,) 2013 (#5) and 2014 (#11) only to file bankruptcy in 2015. In 2013 the stock rose to $85 as it made the list #3. In 2015 the stock peaked at $149, but has recently declined to $111 as it made the list #2.

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Innovation in the Automotive Industry

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Automotive manufacturers, companies in the automotive supply chain, and technology startups eyeing the automotive market need to understand the innovations that are taking place today – and those that will take place tomorrow. Daimler made just five investments in 2015 – 2016 but made 15 investments from January 2017 to mid-2018.

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The 5 Stocks You Should Buy This Week

Adam Hartung

Yet, there is really no change in the fundamental market situation facing Amazon. Black Friday sales in traditional retail stores declined in 2013, 2014 and 2015 – down 10.4% For all December, 2015 retail sales actually declined from 2014. Clearly the market trend toward on-line sales is intact. Rented a DVD?

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