What Would Google Do?
Author: Jeff Jarvis Date Published: 1/27/2009 Price: $26.99 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: From Publishers Weekly This scattered collection of rambling rants lauding Google’s abilities to harness the power of the Internet Age generally misses the mark. Blog impresario Jarvis uses the company’s success to trace aspects of the new customer-driven, user-generated, niche-market-oriented, customized and collaborative world. While his... Read more »
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters
Author: Scott Rosenberg Date Published: 7/07/2009 Price: $26 Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have proved that they... Read more »
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Author: Chris Anderson Date Published: 7/07/2009 Price: $26.99 Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In the digital marketplace, the most effective price is no price at all, argues Anderson (The Long Tail). He illustrates how savvy businesses are raking it in with indirect routes from product to revenue with such models as cross-subsidies (giving away a DVR to sell cable service) and freemiums (offering Flickr for free while selling... Read more »
Innovation Myths and Mythstakes
Author: Timothy Coffey, David Siegel, Mark Smith Date Published: 6/01/2009 Price: $39.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Description: The all-new book that explodes the myths about innovation, while turning conventional wisdom upside down, is here. Finally, an entertaining and useful book on innovation that is that is written in an innovative style – beginning with the fact that the book s Afterword comes first. How many of these business-killing myths do YOU (and your... Read more »
Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders
Author: Hermann Simon Date Published: 6/10/2009 Price: $34.95 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Description: What do Tetra aquarium supplies, Elector-Nite sensors, and Nissha touch panels have in common? They are typical “hidden champions,” medium-sized, unknown companies (with annual revenues under $4 billion) that have quietly, under the radar, become world market leaders in their respective industries. Hermann Simon has been studying these hidden champions for over... Read more »
After the Car
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... Read more »
Wild Design: Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
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... Read more »
The Rudolph Factor: Finding the Bright Lights that Drive Innovation in Your Business
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... Read more »
Tools for Innovation
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... Read more »
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
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... Read more »
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
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
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,... Read more »
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies are Shaping the Future of Business
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... Read more »
Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way: Innovation, Transformation and Winning in the 21st Century
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... Read more »
Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad
Authors : Lynda M. Applegate and J. Bruce Harreld Date Published: June 24, 2009 Executive Summary The financial crisis provides a sobering reminder of what happens when innovation fails to drive productive economic growth. For over a decade, money from around the world poured into the United States seeking innovation. Despite these massive investments, when adjusted for inflation, U.S. GDP grew slowly with much of the growth coming from government, professional, and business services, including... Read more »
iMindMap – The Ultimate Thinking Tool
Description: iMindMap is a creative and very easy to use tool that is available in three Editions. It is the only software that accurately delivers the visual flexibility and brain friendliness of the highly proven and renown Buzan Mind Mapping techniques. iMindMap allows you to organise, create, innovate, plan, present, notate, learn, structure, communicate, problem solve and project manage all in one place. More from iMindMap Read More →
Innovating Your Way To The Top
Published by : Palgrave Macmillan Date Published: January 2009 With the global economic slowdown, the need for innovation is even greater today. If you’re looking to maintain your market share, and perhaps post growth despite the recessionary environment, innovation is key. To understand why innovation is so crucial to success, INSEAD and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants looked into the innovative policies and practices at nine large multinationals widely respected for their innovative skills:... Read more »
Making Innovation Work : How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It
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... Read more »
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
Author: Roger von Oech Date Published: 12/01/1998 Random Page from the Book Consumer Review Summary Description: Revised and expanded for the 1990s, here is the bestselling creative-thinking classic written by America’s foremost creativity consultant. Read More →
Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation
Author: James P. Andrew, Harold L. Sirkin, and John Butman Date Published: 1/09/2007 Price: $20.42 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: If you’re like most people, you bet your career and company on innovation–because you must. Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation offers you a new way to think about and manage innovation that will dramatically improve the odds of success. Payback offers you practical and economically sound advice on when... Read more »
Innovation Evolution
