InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. These innovation-focused book recommendations will help teach you the skills and techniques needed to grow your business and improve your company’s innovation efforts. Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier.

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Innovators Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This year’s survey results revealed that nearly half of the IA membership was interested in sharing (and receiving) entrepreneurial specific resources, including podcasts, books, and programs. Business Breakdowns Learn how companies work from the people who know them best. we should probably do something about that.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Inclusify book: [link]. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:45 – The importance of inclusive leadership. 00:02:30 – What inclusion means, based on optimal distinctiveness theory. 00:06:00 – Her research in building leadership capabilities. 00:08:45 – The links between diversity and innovation performance.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2023

In today's fast-paced business landscape, companies face constant pressure to stay ahead of the competition and maintain their market share. Yet, even successful and established companies can fall victim to the "Innovator's Dilemma."

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Deciphering Innovation: How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die by Lisa Hendrickson and Jim Colwick . Disruption” is becoming an empty buzzword, but it remains true that small companies with big ideas can, and ultimately will, upend almost everything we currently think of as the rock-solid order.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. The first step is to identify the real problem you need to solve.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out these popular JTBD book recommendations. These Jobs to be Done books cover the skills and techniques of this framework in an easy to follow and understand way. Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Get it here.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2021

Kickbox is a framework which aims to bring the benefits of open innovation to all companies, based on a system pioneered by Adobe. Get the book: [link]. In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Co-Founder of Getkickbox at Swisscom, Ralph Hartmeier. 00:03:00 – What is the Kickbox?

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 21, 2022

I recently watched Alexander Osterwalder deliver a keynote on “Building an Invincible Company“, based on his book with the same name. Here are some lessons I took away from the talk: The moment a company thinks it is invincible, their decline becomes inevitable. You can watch the entire keynote here.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating. By the time we start working together, they are already fed up with their company. You have to first develop a deep understanding of your company.

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7innovation

MAY 13, 2020

My book “Developing Innovation – Innovation Management in IT Companies” is now available. It can be ordered from publisher’s site (De Gruyter) or from Amazon. AVAILABLE ON PUBLISHER’S SITE AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I didn’t read a huge number of books this year but I really enjoyed the ones that I did read. This was seriously one of the greatest books ever written. Final Jeopardy : In honor of Alex Trebek I decided to read this book about the famed Jeopardy match between IBM’s Watson and human champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 17, 2020

In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “ Humanocracy ” as in build human centric organisations. The second third of the book is a case study about two organisations which have been successful in rethinking their management of their businesses.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 9, 2019

There’s a big trend when it comes to business strategy books and it’s all about business models In my work advising executives from both big companies and startups, I get insight into what’s on the minds of some of the most strategic, innovative leaders in the planet. There are a few consistent and common themes,

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Articles from GroundControl

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We have listed our top 5 books on innovation from 2020 that you must read! This book is valuable to read, regardless of the experience and knowledge that you already have on experimentation. Our favourite part of the book is the sequencing of experiments. You want to learn the most relevant information within limited time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2024

Companies are investing in — and talking about — mental health more often these days. The author, who wrote a book on mental health and work last year, explores several key ways organizations haven’t gone far enough in implementing a culture of well-being. But employees aren’t reporting a corresponding rise in well-being.

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7innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In next June my first book on English will be published. It is called: “Developing Innovation – Innovation Management in IT Companies” This book will focus on establishing innovation culture in IT companies with many examples from well-known companies. The …

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 17, 2020

In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “ Humanocracy ” as in build human centric organisations. The second third of the book is a case study about two organisations which have been successful in rethinking their management of their businesses.

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2019

Start-ups – companies under 5 years old owned by one person or a small team of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists – will innovate quite differently from established companies, which have a history of successful growth and a market share to defend. Established companies love the industry status quo.

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Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 15, 2020

In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “ Humanocracy ” as in build human centric organisations. The second third of the book is a case study about two organisations which have been successful in rethinking their management of their businesses.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 30, 2019

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. This book is a worthwhile, albeit high-level, treatment of the topic with a rich set of descriptions and examples. Gary Pisano, PhD.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Alex Pang, founder of Strategy and Rest, a consultancy devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten our workdays, while staying focused and productive. 00:29:30 – What a change to a 4 Day Workweek might be like for a company.

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As the tumultous year of 2020 comes to a close, I thought I would share a few of my favorite reads from the past year (note: a few of these books were actually published in 2019). I've read many biographies of Churchill, but I found myself learning something new on many occasions as I read this book.

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Innovation Leader

MARCH 3, 2021

Lean startup is not a bible,” he writes, but “rather a recipe book…” Slides on applying the lean startup from the former Director of Digital Innovation at a lighting manufacturer.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 26, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, David Yu, founder and CEO of e-commerce company Wasoko (formerly Sokowatch), explained that his company’s previous model “wasn’t efficient because Sokowatch couldn’t guarantee that the goods were delivered to the customer when they made orders.” .

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Excerpted from the book: Idea Stormers, How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs (Wiley Jossey-Bass) by Bryan Mattimore Facilitating Genuine Employee Involvement at IBM There is no tougher organizational challenge than changing a culture. Just ask any CEO or company president.

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Strategyzer Innovation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re writing a new book called The Invincible Company. The book builds upon Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , and it takes a deep dive into how world-class companies continuously reinvent their business models. We thought we’d highlight three of our upcoming cases as a sneak peek into our new book.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With nearly 2 million followers on Linkedin, she is one of the most popular speakers and experts on innovation, and we speak about her new book Smart Growth: How to Grow your People to Grow your Company. 00:21:00 – Using S-Curves to get the best growth performance out of teams, and entire companies as a portfolio of S-Curves.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 4, 2021

Perry wrote the highest-selling book on internet advertising, the Utlimate Guide to Google Ads , and has since spent his time refining the 80/20 Pareto principle into strategies to help companies focus on the parts of their business which bring the most reward. Book: [link]. 00:22:00 – The 2,700 Dollar espresso machine.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 21, 2022

Ayse has been voted one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, is a bestselling author, and has won international awards for designing everything from furniture to cars to toilet seats to vegetable peelers. 00:17:00 – Her Book: Designing the Life you Love. 00:17:00 – Her Book: Designing the Life you Love.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 6, 2017

I have set myself a goal to read at least 25 books this year, which roughly translates to about a book every couple of weeks. I also did not just want to read these books but also absorb and internalise the content of these books. So, here is the first book that I finished reading this year – The Growth Gears.

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7innovation

MARCH 31, 2019

Here is the selection of 5 business books I find most intriguing in last year. The Age of Surge: A Human Centered Framework for Scaling Company Wide Agility and Navigating the Tsunami of Digital – Brad Murphy, Dr. Carol Mase …

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 12, 2021

00:10:45 – The challenge of most companies not having an innovation strategy, and how companies can quickly develop one. 00:10:45 – The challenge of most companies not having an innovation strategy, and how companies can quickly develop one. Elvin’s website: [link].

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Boxes and Arrows

JUNE 12, 2018

Editors’ note: This “Book in Brief” feature here on Boxes and Arrows is from. We’ll publish an excerpt, up to 500 words, of your book. The catch is that we’ll only publicize one book a month; first come, first serve. You find a company that seems reputable and call them to set an appointment for the next morning.

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