Innovation
Innovation
According to Pietersen, today’s new leadership challenge is a journey of discovery in which management, particularly in large, established firms, must learn to “think out of the box” and “move out of their comfort...
In Relentless Innovation, management consultant Jeffrey Phillips offers advice on how companies can become relentless innovators—that is, have a program of sustained innovation wherein the urge to...
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...
In Creative People Must Be Stopped, business professor and consultant David A. Owens discusses the challenges of innovation within organizations. While creative new ideas are increasingly important to...
Innovation—pioneering new ways of thinking and developing improved processes and products—is critical to business success. What is particularly needed is “breakthrough,” or radical, innovation—that which offers wholly...
Written by Jill Nemiro—an expert in organizational and team creativity—Creativity in Virtual Teams offers readers a model for achieving high levels of creativity in a virtual environment. As a result of global...
A company has done everything right - searched for and found excellence, focused on what works, reengineered business processes, and developed the discipline of a market leader. But even with all that, if the...
When it becomes necessary to search for cost efficiencies and business improvement ideas, company leaders tend to focus on fine-tuning processes (the hows) rather than focusing on what companies actually do and why...
In Beyond the Obvious, Phil McKinney premises that ideas are the most valuable currency in today’s business world, and that success depends on the ability to generate new ideas that lead to innovations...
Toyota is one of the world’s ten most profitable companies; what is the secret to Toyota’s remarkable success? It is the company’s quest for the “elegant solution”—a singular and deceptively simple idea that can change...
