Innovation
Innovation
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...
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...
At the beginning of this century, Du Pont opened two very different research laboratories. The highly structured, applied research conducted at Du Pont's Eastern Laboratory paid handsome dividends, though the results...
In Service Innovation, innovation strategist Lance A. Bettencourt shows marketers what they need to do to ensure that customers’ service needs are met. Based on the author’s nearly 20 years of...
In Sidestep & Twist, James Gardner dispels the notion that companies that throw money into innovation will automatically have successful products and services. Instead, in many cases, companies...
Companies are growing at an ever-faster rate in today’s era of information technology and globalization. As a result, these organizations are becoming complex, and therefore slower and more expensive to run. People are...
Without realizing it, companies may be hindering their own progress by erecting barriers to what initially made them successful: innovation. Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire by Braden Kelley is based on...
In The Commanding Heights (1998), Yergin and Stanislaw describe the historic forces that have prompted societies, worldwide, to reject government control of the dominant businesses and industries of...
Hammer's 1993 Reengineering the Corporation was a "big idea" business book whose one central theme was that dramatic improvements in performance were possible through reengineering business operations...
In recent years, innovation has been the requisite core competence for companies of every size and in every business and industry. However, no one seems to do it better than IDEO, the award-winning design and...
