Innovation

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days We have, in recent decades, been able to witness a veritable revolution in the world economy, known as `globalization'. Generally, the term is connected to the rapid increase of the free movement of goods, capital, people, ideas, information and knowledge around the globe. This book contributes to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy. Extending our understanding of the many different ways that innovation and entrepreneurship contribute to economic development and growth in a globalized economy, the expert contributors highlight that the current wave of globalization has been a period of exceptional entrepreneurship both among large multinational firms and among independent entrepreneurs. They demonstrate that location matters for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, and clarify that public policy in a globalized economy must stress knowledge and ideas as the source of competitiveness and economic growth. Both graduates and post graduates, along with university researchers, will find this book to be useful in their studies, particularly those with an interest in innovation and entrepreneurship research, regional economics, economic geography and international economics. Features Summary This book contributes to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy. Author Charlie Karlsson (Editor), Urban Grasjo (Editor), Sofia Wixe (Editor) Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Release date 20150626 Pages 352 ISBN 1-78347-731-8 ISBN 13 978-1-78347-731-9

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed in to the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations-people do. For innovation to happen, organizations need to be people-centric. In this breakthrough book she shows how, by following her People Equation, every organization can develop a mindset, an organizational structure, and a product development process that will maximize creativity and innovation. Using examples from her consulting work and from her research into successful business practices, Piscione shows how to create a culture where risk taking is rewarded, mavericks are encouraged, collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured, and, when experiments and new initiatives are proposed, the response is to ask how rather than question why. This requires upending the usual organizational pyramid, giving more decision-making power to frontline workers and less to the C-level executives traditionally at the top. Once this is all in place, you can take advantage of Piscione's twelve-step Improvisational Innovation process for bringing new products and services to market. This is a comprehensive guide to harnessing the creative energy in every organization. Features Summary For innovation to happen, organisations need to be people-centric. In this breakthrough book, Deborah Perry Piscione shows how, by following her People Equation... Author Deborah Perry Piscione (Author), David Crawley (Author) Publisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers Release date 20170323 Pages 216 ISBN 1-62656-641-0 ISBN 13 978-1-62656-641-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Thanks to its ability to innovate, the developed world will always have a distinct advantage over the developing world, right? Not according to leading management experts Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam. In India Inside, the authors draw on their research to show how India is already turning this assumption on its head--often in ways invisible to consumers in the developed world. Through their research and extensive interviews with India-based executives from such companies as AstraZeneca, GE, Infosys, Intel, and Wipro, the authors unveil the dramatic rise in invisible innovation occurring in India--from B2B products and R&D outsourcing to process and management innovation. The book also illuminates Indian companies' growing ability to innovate consumer products that are compact, low-cost, efficient, and robust in the face of harsh environmental conditions. The authors' analysis makes clear that for certain kinds of innovation, the long-held monopoly of the developed world is over. India Inside provides a wake-up call for executives and policy makers in the developed world and a clear-eyed view of both the challenges and opportunities facing multinationals seeking new sources of innovation in the future. Features Summary Even as white collar jobs are outsourced to Indian firms, those of us in the developed world persist in the view that our distinct advantage over the developing world our ability to innovate will remain unchallenged... Author Nirmalya Kumar (Author), Phanish Puranam (Author) Publisher Harvard Business Review Press Release date 20111101 Pages 208 ISBN 1-4221-5875-6 ISBN 13 978-1-4221-5875-3

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days From 1965 through today, the art quilt movement has grown to become one of the most exciting art forms of the 21st century. Until now, there has not been a comprehensive, chronological history of the studio art quilt, which has become an international phenomenon. This feast for the eyes offers full-color images of 400 masterpieces along with engaging interviews and profiles of 58 influential artists, key leaders, important events, and significantcollections. Organized by decade, an additional 182 international artists' works are featured. An introduction by Janet Koplos, former senior editor of Art in America, and a conclusion by Ulysses Grant Dietz, emeritus chief curator of the Newark Museum, help us to understand the impact and the future of the art. This publication originated with Studio Art Quilt Associates, a non-profit professional organization founded in 1989 and now serving 3,500 members in nearly forty countries. Features Summary 50 Years of Innovation. Author Sandra Sider (Editor), Nancy Bavor (Author), Lisa Ellis (Author), Martha Sielman (Author) Publisher Schiffer Publishing Ltd Release date 20181201 Pages 352 ISBN 0-7643-5626-7 ISBN 13 978-0-7643-5626-1

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days To navigate the complex ecosystem of societal challenges, the International Conference on Knowledge Management Conference (ICKM 2017) focused on big data and data analytics as part of the relationship to the wider concept of knowledge management processes and practices.This book includes top papers presenting the major, and diverse, topics discussed at the conference. The papers covered various aspects of big data ranging from enhancing access to the big data to facilitating its wide applications in healthcare, social media, library and information centers, governments, and corporations. Features Summary To navigate the complex ecosystem of societal challenges, the International Conference on Knowledge Management Conference (ICKM 2017) focused on big data and data analytics as part of the relationship to the wider concept of knowledge management processes and practices... Author Suliman Hawamdeh (Editor), Jeff Allen (Editor), Daniel Alemneh (Editor) Publisher World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Release date 20171208 Pages 364 ISBN 981-3234-47-4 ISBN 13 978-981-3234-47-5

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development goes beyond the paradigm of open innovation and underlines the variety of opportunities that firms may have in innovation and new business development with external actors. This book shows readers that firms can interact, innovate, and do business with different known and unknown actors, both formally and informally, and use different levels of openness within interorganizational innovation processes. External actors, however, also mean additional risks for the firm that they should manage. The subtitle of book, Bridging Networked Innovation, Intellectual Property and Business, addresses the guidance and perspectives that the book will provide in order to better prepare the reader for innovation with external actors.Bazaar of Opportunities has a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, bringing innovation, business, legal and network management perspectives together. The findings are based on state-of-the-art practices of innovative firms in Europe, empirical data collected through interviews and case studies. Through this multidisciplinary approach and the empirical findings, the reader may gain insight on how to be successful in open and networked innovation. Format:Hardback Pages:236

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The first step-by-step guidebook for successful innovation planning Unlike other books on the subject, "101 Design Methods "approaches the practice of creating new products, services, and customer experiences as a science, rather than an art, providing a practical set of collaborative tools and methods for planning and defining successful new offerings. Strategists, managers, designers, and researchers who undertake the challenge of innovation, despite a lack of established procedures and a high risk of failure, will find this an invaluable resource. Novices can learn from it; managers can plan with it; and practitioners of innovation can improve the quality of their work by referring to it. Features Summary A guide for successful innovation planning. It is suitable for strategists, managers, designers, and researchers who undertake the challenge of innovation... Author Vijay Kumar Publisher John Wiley & Sons Release date 20120917 Pages 326 ISBN 1-118-08346-6 ISBN 13 978-1-118-08346-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things. The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders-users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective at improving products but not at capturing bigger opportunities in the marketplace. In this book Roberto Verganti offers a new approach-one that does not set out to solve existing problems but to find breakthrough meaningful experiences. There is no brainstorming-which produces too many ideas, unfiltered-but a vision, subject to criticism. It does not come from outsiders but from one person's unique interpretation. The alternate path to innovation mapped by Verganti aims to discover not how things work but why we need things. It gives customers something more meaningful-something they can love. Verganti describes the work of companies, including Nest Labs, Apple, Yankee Candle, and Philips Healthcare, that have created successful businesses by doing just this. Nest Labs, for example, didn't create a more advanced programmable thermostat, because people don't love to program their home appliances. Nest's thermostat learns the habits of the household and bases its temperature settings accordingly. Verganti discusses principles and practices, methods and implementation. The process begins with a vision and proceeds through developmental criticism, first from a sparring partner and then from a circle of radical thinkers, then from external experts and interpreters, and only then from users. Innovation driven by meaning is the way to create value in our current world, where ideas are abundant but novel visions are rare. If something is meaningful for both the people who create it and the people who consume it, business value follows. Features Summary A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things. Author Roberto Verganti (Author), Ken Friedman (Series editor), Erik Stolterman (Series editor) Publisher MIT Press Release date 20170210 Pages 246 ISBN 0-262-03536-7 ISBN 13 978-0-262-03536-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours The actionable guide for driving organizational innovation through better IT strategy With rare insight, expert technology strategist Peter High emphasizes the acute need for IT strategy to be developed not in a vacuum, but in concert with the broader organizational strategy. This approach focuses the development of technology tools and strategies in a way that is comprehensive in nature and designed with the concept of value in mind. The role of CIO is no longer "just" to manage IT strategy instead, the successful executive will be firmly in tune with corporate strategy and a driver of a technology strategy that is woven into overall business objectives at the enterprise and business unit levels. High makes use of case examples from leading companies to illustrate the various ways that IT infrastructure strategy can be developed, not just to fall in line with business strategy, but to actually drive that strategy in a meaningful way. His ideas are designed to provide real, actionable steps for CIOs that both increase the executive's value to the organization and unite business and IT in a manner that produces highly-successful outcomes. * Formulate clearer and better IT strategic plans * Weave IT strategy into business strategy at the corporate and business unit levels * Craft an infrastructure that aligns with C-suite strategy * Close the gap that exists between IT leaders and business leaders While function, innovation, and design remain key elements to the development and management of IT infrastructure and operations, CIOs must now think beyond their primary purview and recognize the value their strategies and initiatives will create for the organization. With Implementing World Class IT Strategy, the roadmap to strategic IT excellence awaits. Features Summary The actionable guide for driving organizational innovation through better IT strategy With rare insight, expert technology strategist Peter High emphasizes the acute need for IT strategy to be developed not in a vacuum... Author Peter A. High Publisher John Wiley & Sons Release date 20140912 Pages 222 ISBN 1-118-63411-X ISBN 13 978-1-118-63411-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Reaching back as far as medieval Rus and as far forward as metrical and linguistic innovation permit, Sosnora has written with a voice unique and wideranging. Historical allusion, conscious anachronism, humor, and intensity of word play dominate by turns his range of verse. Viktor Sosnora was born in 1936 in the Crimea. He is known as one of the most consistently experimental of Russian poets, and one of the foremost translators, into Russian, of Catullus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen Ginsberg. Mark Halperin teaches at Central Washington University. His latest book of poems, "The Measure of Islands," was published by Wesleyan. Dinara Georgeoliani is a linguist and Assistant Professor of Russian at Central Washington University. Features Summary Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Mark Halperin and Dinara Georgeoliani. Reaching back as far as medieval Rus and as far forward as metrical and linguistic innovation permit... Author Viktor Sosnora (Author), Dinara Georgeoliani (Translator), Mark Halperin (Translator) Publisher Zephyr Press (MA) Release date 20040501 Pages 135 ISBN 0-939010-76-3 ISBN 13 978-0-939010-76-9

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days This book shows you - How to think smarter and act faster - Embrace the new tricks of business - Understand how gamechangers dream and disrupt - Deliver practical results and win. Gamechangers are the next generation of brands and business, shaking up markets by playing a different game and redefining markets in their own vision. They win through ambition and innovation rather than legacy and scale, out-thinking the competition, focusing on the growth markets, and embracing technology in more human ways. The book is in two parts, top-and-tailed by a scene-setting introduction and a practical, feature and tool-packed Lab. Part 1, Play the Game, shows you how to generate the ideas and innovation that set gamechangers apart. Part 2 explores extraordinary next generation brands, profiling over 100 businesses nominated by peers, across continents and sectors, who are changing the game. Ranging from detailed case studies to fascinating pen portraits in sectors as diverse as Health, Media, Technology and Retail, Peter Fisk defines how you can win by playing a different game. The Lab is split into 5 sections, each with a collection of smart "tools" to help you apply and implement the concepts in your own business. These tools will be accompanied by a digital platform, the Gamechanger Studio, which provides a practical workbench of processes and tools to help you apply and implement the best game-changing ideas from around the world, and to shape your own market in your vision Features Summary Shake up and redefine the market by changing your game! A new generation of businesses is rising out of the maelstrom of economic and technological change across our world... Author Peter Fisk Publisher John Wiley & Sons Release date 20141205 Pages 314 ISBN 1-118-95697-4 ISBN 13 978-1-118-95697-7

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(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) New tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group's fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness--that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems--has increased by a whopping factor of thirty-five. In their attempt to respond to the increasingly complex performance requirements they face, company leaders have created an organizational labyrinth that makes it more and more difficult to improve productivity and to pursue innovation. It also disengages and demotivates the workforce. Clearly it's time for leaders to stop trying to manage complexity with their traditional tools and instead better leverage employees' intelligence. This book shows you how and explains the implications for designing and leading organizations. The way to manage complexity, the authors argue, is neither with the hard solutions of another era nor with the soft solutions--such as team building and feel-good "people initiatives"--that often follow in their wake. Based on social sciences (notably economics, game theory, and organizational sociology) and The Boston Consulting Group's work with more than five hundred companies in more than forty countries and in various industries, authors Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman recommend six simple rules to manage complexity without getting complicated. Showing why the rules work and how to put them into practice, Morieux and Tollman give managers a much-needed tool to reinvigorate people in the face of seemingly endless complexity. Included are detailed examples from companies that have achieved a multiplicative effect on performance by using them. It's time to manage complexity better. Employ these six simple rules to foster autonomy and cooperation and to effectively handle business complexity. As a result, you will improve productivity, innovate more, reengage your workforce, and seize opportunities to create competitive advantage. Format:Hardback Pages:240

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