After the Car
July 21, 2009
Author: Kingsley Dennis, John Urry Date Published: 6/29/2009 Price: $19.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Description: It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several... Read more »
Wild Design: Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
July 21, 2009
Author: Alan Marshall Date Published: 7/14/2009 Price: $18.95 Editorial Review Description: In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of the Ecomimicry Project, an international experiment... Read more »
The Rudolph Factor: Finding the Bright Lights that Drive Innovation in Your Business
July 21, 2009
Author: Cyndi Laurin, Craig Morningstar Date Published: 7/14/2009 Price: $21.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: The Rudolph Factor uses Boeing C-17′s successful transformation as a platform for teaching organizations how to elicit and benefit from the creative, revolutionary thinking of current employees. A small percentage of hypercreative, out-of-the-box thinkers can be the catalyst for organization-wide reform—if you can recognize and nurture... Read more »
Tools for Innovation
July 21, 2009
Author: Arthur B. Markman, Kristin L. Wood Date Published: 7/11/2009 Price: $45 Editorial Review Description: It is widely known that innovation is crucial to sustain success in business, government, and engineering. But capturing the effective means of fostering innovation remains elusive. How can organizations actively promote innovation, which arises from a complex combination of cognition and domain expertise? Researchers across an array of fields are studying innovation, with exciting new... Read more »
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
July 20, 2009
Author: Joshua Cooper Ramo Price: $25.99 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges (e.g., studying why Hezbollah is the most efficiently run Islamic militant group). His book, which lays bare the flaws in current thinking on everything from American political influence... Read more »
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
July 20, 2009
Author: Hugh MacLeod Price: $23.95 Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: Now his first book, Ignore Everyone, expands on his sharpest insights, wittiest cartoons, and most useful advice. Read More →
Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities
July 20, 2009
Author: Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich Price: $35 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: Managers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a structured and process-driven approach this book demonstrates how to systematically identify exceptional opportunities for innovation. An innovation tournament, just like... Read more »
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies are Shaping the Future of Business
July 20, 2009
Author: Hartmut Esslinger Date Published: 6/29/2009 Price: $29.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: “A breath of turbo-charged fresh air that doesn’t regurgitate the ego-maniac CEO’s selective memory or an outside expert’s misinterpretations. Hartmut explains innovation through the lens of design, and it’s about time we gained his valuable perspective.” —Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist, Apple and co-founder of... Read more »
Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way: Innovation, Transformation and Winning in the 21st Century
July 20, 2009
Author: David Magee Date Published: 3/09/2009 Price: $$25.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: (…) Written with the full cooperation of Immelt and GE senior executives, Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way tells the amazing story of how Immelt defied the skeptics and successfully reengineered one of the world’s oldest and largest global conglomerates to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn how it’s... Read more »
Making Innovation Work : How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It
July 5, 2009
Author: Jim Collins Date Published: 8/01/2005 Price: $23.09 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: Making Innovation Work presents a formal innovation process proven to work at HP, Microsoft and Toyota, to help ordinary managers drive top and bottom line growth from innovation. The authors have drawn on their unsurpassed innovation consulting experience — as well as the most thorough review of innovation research ever performed. They’ll show what works,... Read more »
Innovation Evolution
