Innovation Book, The: How To Manage Ideas And Execution For Outstanding Results

Description

The Innovation Book is your hands-on guide to turning new thinking into exciting opportunities. The quick-read format features an overview of each topic, what success looks like, the pitfalls to dodge and an action plan of what you can start doing - right now - to achieve success.

Includes:

• Your Creative Self – how to become a more powerful innovator
• Leading Innovators – how to inspire and motivate creative people
• Creating Innovation – how to develop and test new concepts
• Winning with Innovation – how to sell your new ideas
• The Innovator’s Toolkit – 20+ tools to help you create, shape and share your ideas
• The Innovator’s Case Notes – real-life examples of innovation in action; what would you have done?

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• How to use this book?
• What is innovation?
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• part one: Your creative self
• Nurturing your creative genius
• Seeing what others do not see
• Becoming a more powerful innovator
• Giving up old ideas for better ideas
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• part two: Leading innovators
• Building a better, bigger brain
• Organising people for innovation
• Creating powerful innovation culture
• Motivating innovators
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• part three: Creating innovation
• Using the power of (creative) rebels
• Making new ideas useful
• Grinding your way from insight to (successful) innovation
• Measuring (unmeasurable) innovation
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• part four: Winning with innovation
• Winning and losing with innovation
• Making innovation popular
• Selling new ideas
• Renewing, transforming and disrupting
• Surfing waves of creativity
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• part five: The innovator’s Toolkit
• Creating (smarter) new ideas
• Altshuller’s innovation pyramid
• Burgelman and Seigel’s minimum winning game
• Osborn and Parnes’ creative problem-solving
• Altshuller’s theory of inventive problem-solving (TRIZ)
• Osterwalder’s business model canvas
• Amabile’s internal and external motivation
• Guilford’s convergent and divergent thinking
• Ries’ build-measure-learn wheel
• Shaping better futures
• Christensen’s disruptive innovation
• Schroeder’s innovation journey
• Usher’s path of cumulative synthesis
• Van de Ven’s leadership rhythms
• Friend’s three types of uncertainty
• Teece’s win, lose, follow, innovate grid
• d.school’s design thinking modes
• Sharing beautiful ideas
• Henderson and Clark’s four types of innovation
• Rogers’ adoption and diffusion curve
• Abernathy and Utterback’s three phases of innovation
• Chesbrough’s open innovation
• March’s exploration vs. exploitation
• Johnson and Johnson’s constructive controversy cycle
• Powell and Grodal’s networks for innovation
• Boyd’s OODA loop
• Final words
• More reading for curious people
• Index

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