InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 12, 2022

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. It should be a book that all managers read. However, I've always found the insights of Roger Martin useful.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I'm returning today to one of my favorite activities - a book review. Good books are simply too rare, and good books about topics important to innovators are unfortunately even more rare. The book I'm reviewing today is entitled What about the Future? And that's what this book seeks to provide.

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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

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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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 23, 2018

I've written and spoken about the importance of corporate culture and its impact on innovation over the last 15 years or so. Heck, one of the underlying issues I address in my book Relentless Innovation (shameless plug) is the overwhelming challenge that corporate culture presents to an innovation team.

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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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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. But what happens to the culture of teams and organizations in a virtual world? Pair Up to Show Up. Shape yours today.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Here’s how to build it into your corporate culture. Leading organizational change to create a corporate culture that delivers continuous innovation is one of today’s most strategic business imperatives. But how does trust relate to employees inside of organizations and corporate cultures?

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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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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Moreover, these speakers can initiate a cultural shift within teams, guiding them towards a more inclusive and open-minded approach. This cultural transformation, essential for sustained innovation, can be further explored through keynote speakers for team culture transformation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

They are an invaluable resource for meeting managers and meeting organizers who aim to foster an environment where collaboration is not just encouraged but ingrained in the company culture. How Keynote Speakers Can Impact Team Dynamics Keynote speakers possess the unique ability to influence team dynamics profoundly.

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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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Leapfrogging

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. But what happens to the culture of teams and organizations in a virtual world? Pair Up to Show Up. Shape yours today.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We speak about what it takes to build a culture where both leaders and everyone can feel engaged with innovation and bring forward their best ideas. 00:16:30 – How a courageous culture helps companies implement ideas. 00:16:30 – How a courageous culture helps companies implement ideas.

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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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Linda Bernardi

JULY 12, 2021

I have been working with companies across all sectors for the last 15 years and my book ProVoke talks about the importance of disruption in order to enable innovation. Without innovation, there is no leadership and your company will stagnate. They want to transform their company into the digital age and do it immediately.

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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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The Human Factor

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

If you can be seen to be helping customers the most, trying to abate their fears, trying to maximize their positive thoughts and helping them to achieve something, you will forever be in their good books. This is what company culture is all about. But what is trying to stop your company culture from flourishing?

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Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2021

The Kauffman Organization reports that more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children, over 50% of American billion-dollar “unicorn” startups have at least one immigrant founder, and immigrants are nearly twice as likely as the native-born to start a new company.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 30, 2020

We talk about his new upcoming book Pirates in the Navy , and how to build an innovation culture where intrapreneurs can flourish. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 How intrapreneurs need to act like pirates and privateers within a company. 00:05:30 Building an innovation portfolio.

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Idea to Value

JULY 9, 2020

We speak about some of the insights from his upcoming book Eat, Sleep, Innovate , and how the current pandemic is going to change many industries in the near future. And why are these innate behaviours not happening in companies? 00:14:00 – How can you develop a culture which allows intelligent failure.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we welcome back the Dean of Innovation, Dr Jeff DeGraff, who has worked with more than half of the Fortune 500 companies to improve their innovation programs. 00:04:45 – The new book and it is for people who are trying to build up their side hustle. The Creative Mindset book: [link].

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Braineet

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When you think about innovation, chances are Apple is one of the first companies that comes to mind – and with good reason. Led by the company’s late founding visionary Steve Jobs, Apple has broken every rule in the book and defied every expectation on its way to the top.

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Fehmida Kapadia

AUGUST 12, 2022

The right geographical, cultural, and economic environments can create an ecosystem that facilitates innovation and creativity. This was illustrated amply in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers The Story of Success where he demonstrates that certain eras, situations and geographies created the right environments allowing people to flourish.

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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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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

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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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 12, 2018

Why is she on the show: Her book “Fusion” comes out today in which she shares her insights on the importance of bringing organisational culture & the power of branding together to create an organisation that can become a powerhouse of a business. This means that as leaders our actions determine the culture we create.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 22, 2020

00:06:30 – Why most companies have a C.R.A.P. 00:11:00 – Can you get to success while also living a balanced life, and not succumbing to hustle culture? 00:06:30 – Why most companies have a C.R.A.P. 00:11:00 – Can you get to success while also living a balanced life, and not succumbing to hustle culture?

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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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Innovation Excellence

MAY 19, 2020

Many organisations are trying to create a culture of innovation, but are not pausing to ask why? If we want to innovate well, we need the right culture – we need vision people, and in a big way. Culture becomes key to having a successful innovative organisation. A culture of innovation requires a mindset shift.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 24, 2016

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival establishes a foundation of 10 Key Imperatives intended to help everyone from beginners to seasoned innovators. Innovation enforcers can help whip your organization’s culture of innovation into shape. Why Your Organization Needs a Whip.

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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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