The KnowBrainer
June 30, 2009
Description: “If you are looking for a creativity tool that is powerful, portable, and low tech, then you ought to check out the KnowBrainer… This tool does an excellent job of leveraging the mind’s capabilities of association to a major advantage. It may look like a simple tool, but don’t let the KnowBrainer’s low-tech “interface” fool you. This is one powerful and easy to use idea generation tool.”
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The Innovator’s Toolkit
June 30, 2009
Author: David Silverstein
Price: $19.77
Description: The Innovator’s Toolkit explains all the fundamental tools and concepts anyone involved in innovation should be familiar with–especially methods and strategies for improving products and services and developing new ones. This book is written in an easy-to-use reference format that helps readers understand why, when, and how to apply each tool.
America’s Corporate Brain Drain
June 30, 2009
Author: Babs Ryan
Price: $20.48
Grabbing Lightning: Building a capability for breakthrough innovation
June 30, 2009
Author: G. Colarelli O’Connor
Price: $19.77
Description: Established companies are clamoring for breakthrough innovation, but are often hamstrung by the highly reliable, repeatable processes of their management systems. Based on years of research, Grabbing Lightning shows how twelve companies have tried to develop a capability for sustainable breakthrough innovation and outlines best practices for your organization.
Innovation To The Core
June 30, 2009
Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates
Author: Skarsynski and Gibson
Price: $23.10
Description: If you’re like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success.
Innovation Leaders: How Senior Leaders Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation
June 30, 2009
Author: Jean-Philippe Deschamps
Price: $16.27
Description: Innovation leaders promote and address the innovation agenda in their company. Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation. They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete innovation initiatives and do not hesitate to personally coach innovation teams.
The Essential Drucker: The best of Drucker’s Writing
June 30, 2009
Author: Peter F. Drucker
Price: $24.90
Description: Ever since his first book was published some six decades ago, Peter Drucker has been essential to everyone serious about the “management of an enterprise (and) the self-management of the individual, whether executive or professional, within an enterprise and altogether in our society of managed organizations.”
Conquering Innovation Fatigue
June 25, 2009
Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success (Hardcover)
Author: Jeffrey Lindsay, Cheryl A. Perkins, Mukund Karanjikar
Date Published: 7/7/2009
Price: $26.37
Description: This practical guide reveals the nine major “fatigue factors” that can block the path to innovation success, along with solutions to energize innovation. Original advances in innovation practice and new case studies are applied to guide inventors, entrepreneurs, companies, universities, and even policy makers in conquering innovation fatigue. Cost-effective solutions include guidance on intellectual assets, dealing with disruptive innovation, and driving innovation using the “Horn of Innovation” and “Circuit of Innovation” models. A surprising view of DaVinci as an engine of open innovation is presented.
Where Innovation Creates Value
June 25, 2009
Author: Amar Bhidé
Date Published: February 2009
Creative Whack Pack (Cards)
June 24, 2009
Author: Roger Von Oech
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Price: $10.88
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