InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Innovate to grow with these innovation book recommendations. Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Books from 2020 & Earlier. Find it here.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 12, 2022

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. It should be a book that all managers read. However, I've always found the insights of Roger Martin useful.

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Innov8rs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Your brand dominates the offline world, but digital competitors are growing fast in a rapidly changing market. No one had the right recipe, and when that happens, you can try every strategy in the book, but it wont save you,” he explains. You have three choices: merge, compete head-on, or pivot entirely. What would you do?

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Imaginatik

MAY 29, 2018

BOSTON – May 29, 2018 – Imaginatik today announced the publication of a groundbreaking new business book, Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth. A changed competitive environment creates new rules and steps to take — as useful for start-ups as for mid-market firms and global brands.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2020

I recall enjoying a book published a few years back, “ Innovation Governance- how top management organizes and mobilizes for innovation ”, written by Jean-Philippe Deschamps and Beebe Nelson. I am drawing from this book on some thoughts about innovation leadership. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader?

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 23, 2017

Competing Against Luck is the rather curious title of a new book by the eminent innovation guru, Clayton Christensen, ably assisted by three acolytes, Hall, Dillon and Duncan. The authors argue that managers focus mainly on product features, customer characteristics, trends, market data and competitive offerings.

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Tim Kastelle

DECEMBER 28, 2014

This is a lesson that Timothy Prestero and his organisation Design that Matters learned painfully. Ideas that do both are what Mark Payne calls two-sided solutions in his book How to Kill a Unicorn. This is why business models have parts that focus on both internal processes, and product-market fit – you need to have both.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 13, 2023

From eggs and iced tea to books and televisions , the authors describe–quite convincingly–how the time-price of many products and services has plummeted. At the Christensen Institute, we espouse the virtues of market-creating innovations. Javier Lozano’s market-creating innovation targeted these people. But it can.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 26, 2022

In managing the operations directly ourselves… we went from an asset-light backend distribution software platform to this market-facing platform that was out there delivering goods directly to shops themselves.”. As Wasoko learned, not being able to deliver goods to customers after they order them isn’t good for business. .

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2018

Expanding into new markets can be a lucrative business move, but it’s one that should be taken with care. Before you so much as dip a toe into a new market, you need some idea management. What’s Your Market? And remember to apply this to any market, even on the ones you’re already in.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Check out these popular JTBD book recommendations. These Jobs to be Done books cover the skills and techniques of this framework in an easy to follow and understand way. Check out our lists of innovation books and design thinking books to read. Looking for even more literary choices to help you innovate? Get it here.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

This InnovationTraining.org guest article from Tendayi Viki is a selection from his latest book, Pirates In The Navy. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work. Skills Development : It is a myth that entrepreneurship cannot be learned. On Understanding Your Company Before You Start Innovating.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you. Competitive disadvantage: A delayed or failed project can allow competitors to move ahead, capturing market share and innovation opportunities. Book an appointment with Nick

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Phil McKinney

JUNE 11, 2023

If you are a regular reader (or a subscriber to the newsletter ), you know I rarely do product, book, or tool recommendations. Last week, I came across a book that was recommended to me by Audible. Have you ever had one of those books that is a true page-turner? This is that rare exception.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And sports like cricket and American Football have long, complex rule books which take a long time to learn. Even if they wanted to, there are things making the current solutions in the market too complex or resource intensive for them to be able to use. Those are the rules.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

He is also the author of Creative Calling , a book on what it takes to get over the hurdles to starting your own creative journey and potentially making it a career. Topics include pricing your creative services, dealing with challenging clients, improving your internal processes and marketing your creative services more effectively.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. Nonetheless, the major issue which needs to be considered looking forward to 2023 is what might happen in the wider market. Upskill your workforce.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2018

So in this article we will address a new emerging theme: machine learning and try to answer the question “ who learns faster, a machine or an human?” People can get stuck in the process of learning. How does a machine learn? But are they actually learning? How does a human learn?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The report is over 400 pages long and is framed as a guide book for all involved in the energy transition. To cover the whole energy system what we have been identified today in technology options will multiply, adapt, change, and build out different solutions as we continue to learn and advance. Standardized building retrofits.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 12, 2016

From the name, people often think of it as a prototype, but really, it’s a learning object. That Resources page includes free.pdfs of two books on the topic, and they are both excellent. The Lean Startup approach is based on the Build-Measure-Learn loop. The best way to think of an MVP is an object for learning.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

AUGUST 2, 2024

In this edition, we speak with Matthew Lieberman who is the Chief Marketing Officer of PwC US/Mexico and an innovative executive at the crossroads of marketing, media, and technology. ML: I have a non-traditional background and am not a classically educated marketer.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 29, 2020

I've been reading a fair number of books and articles lately about digital transformation. If this sounds a bit dire, try reading the book entitled The Big Nine by Amy Webb. Take TensorFlow, an open source software library that supports many machine learning algorithms. TensorFlow was developed by Google.

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 7, 2016

To get to that size, they must have been building for a huge market right from the start, right? They slowly added features, like The Wall – this happened when they expanded their market to everyone that had a.edu email address – 20 million people or so. Part 3 in The Lean Startup Series Facebook currently has 1.55

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2019

Curiosity is “a strong desire to learn or know something.” One person’s sincere desire to learn can be seen by another as a desire to pointlessly rock the boat, and as the waters of business become more complicated to navigate, there are many who’d rather shut the curious down. Offer Learning Opportunities.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 17, 2020

In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “ Humanocracy ” as in build human centric organisations. The second third of the book is a case study about two organisations which have been successful in rethinking their management of their businesses.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). Which means they do not believe small changes over time, failing, learning and adjusting can or will have a meaningful impact. Twitter: wilg.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 9, 2024

In her new book, "Data, Strategy, Culture & Power," data expert Nicole Radziwill, PhD introduces “Radziwill’s Law,” which states: “Data cannot be decoupled from power. It is constantly not only learning from our behavior, it is also generating cultural content that helps to shape our identities and how we pursue status.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 20, 2017

We learn that some of the legends of how the Post-It Note was developed are indeed true. He also sang in a church choir and had a regular problem of losing his hymn notes in his church song book. But the only marketable product idea they could come up with was a reusable bulletin board to stick papers to.

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Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Given my last post about my next book generated so much interest, I’ve decided to document my journey here in the hopes that it benefits others. This is book number 7. Although I have published books as far back as 2001 (with an even earlier one from 1996 when I was at Accenture), I am always learning something new.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

And while we could spend the next few minutes exploring the concept of learning about innovation tools and methods, or spending time doing deep exploratory research or discovery, I'm going to spend my time today on one of the most important preparatory activities - getting to the right question. He calls this book A More Beautiful Question.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We need to engage in different ecosystems and participate in new platform learning to take advantage of the changes taking place all around us. To quote Chuck Robbins, the Cisco CEO and Chairman “ We believe that no one company can deliver the full breadth of technology solutions that customers need at the pace the market requires ”.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 20, 2016

She did nothing about this great idea and when Hartz, a large pet products and supply company, brought a similar product to market the very next year, Mangano made a promise to herself that the next time she had a great idea, she would bring it to market first. [4]. Innovation Lesson No. Don’t sit on great ideas.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding intelligent failure In her new book “ The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well “, Professor Amy Edmondson (who you may remember from her groundbreaking work on Psychological Safety in teams) outlines her research into how not all failure is bad. In fact, some types of failure can be hugely beneficial.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any organisation that wants to enable their staff who have an idea to “try it out” or do an initial market experiment. Put simply, it theorises that small companies can disrupt the market of large companies by releasing a new version of an offering which appeals more to a subset of the customers.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So let me tell you what this is all about, and I will describe this with heavy referencing from Geoffrey Moore’s book “ Dealing with Darwin “ Without a doubt, one of my favourite books in how it helped me piece together a large part of my dynamic innovation fitness puzzle. Interested to learn more?

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

This was one of the first books that I read that made me really interested in the work at the Christensen Institute, and I continue to refer to its insights as I continue my work with some of today’s most impactful innovators. This book may just be the guide for those companies in growth markets. Tolaram now sells more than 4.5

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