Innovation
Innovation
In these changing times, organizations must innovate or die. In Who Killed Creativity … And How Can We Get It Back?, best-selling authors Andrew Grant and Gaia Grant explain how to become more creative...
Every company wants to be an innovation leader. After all, companies that innovate are ultimately those that thrive. Unfortunately, most companies that institute innovation programs do it in a manner that thwarts the...
A thought-provoking vision of tomorrow’s competitive environment that calls for the abandonment of yesterday’s conventional wisdom. Hanan contends that in order to compete in this new environment, enterprises must...
Although outsourcing is the current hot topic, Friedman reports that outsourcing is just one dimension of a much more fundamental phenomenon unfolding today – the flattening of the world. Massive technological...
The idea that large groups of people are smarter than an elite few may be a surprise to many involved in decision making and problem solving, and can be a concept that is difficult to accept. The theory that groups are...
Cultivating innovation from within employee ranks not only ensures a steady flow of new ideas, but also improves employee morale and reduces turnover. That is the thinking behind The Wild Idea Club by...
The authors describe in detail why and how Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson gave up engineering positions at MIT in order to start Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in August of 1957. They focus on how Olsen and...
Everyone in the auto industry is so familiar with Toyota’s dramatic business success and world-renowned quality that, as Liker points out, many consider the company to be “boring,” with its steadily growing sales,...
The Tom Peters Seminar is a radical new view of how business can work if organizations are willing to make imagination the source of value. Peters totally abandons the conventions that have brought the...
How is it that Paul Revere’s ride is heralded to this day, while the endeavors of William Dawes, who also rode at the very same time to warn of the British, barely rate a footnote in history? How is it that Hush...
