Best Innovation Books

Explore the best innovation books to read A curated list of recommendations, reaching from amazon best sellers to secret tips. From Peter Drucker to Bill Gates or Ken Auletta. Including some of the most sold texts about innovation strategy and the lean startup.

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The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

The Invention of Enterprise examines entrepreneurship in various regions and periods, discussing the challenges and incentives for innovation. It provides valuable insights for promoting successful entrepreneurship in the modern world.

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Practical Innovation in Government

Practical Innovation in Government

This book is a guide to improving government efficiency through front-line-driven change led by supervisors and low-level managers.

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Invention and Innovation

Invention and Innovation

Vaclav Smil's latest book looks at the history of human invention and innovation, and why some inventions fail while others become disasters.

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The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People

The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People

Porcini shows that the key to real, world-changing innovation is to put people first—not only the people we innovate for but also the people who lead the innovation process.

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create.

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You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake: How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them

You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake: How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them

Discover nine common business decisionmaking traps and learn practical tools for avoiding them.

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Where Good Ideas Come From

Where Good Ideas Come From

Five key principles on the origin of great ideas, from the gut feeling to the importance of connectivity and collaboration.

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Value Proposition Design

Value Proposition Design

Use the Value Proposition Design to create compelling products and services your customers need and want to buy.

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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

From a universal basic income to a 15hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking.

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The Ten Faces of Innovation

The Ten Faces of Innovation

IDEOs Strategies for Beating the Devils Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization

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The Startup Way

The Startup Way

Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds

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The New Innovation Standard

The New Innovation Standard

Like it or not, there’s one problem every company will inevitably confront: how do I innovate successfully? In this book we lay out the industry-tested Innovation-Led Growth framework.

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The Myths of Innovation

The Myths of Innovation

Learn about where ideas come from the true history of ideas, why most people dont like ideas, how great managers make ideas thrive and the importance of problem finding.

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The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing Game-Changing Breakthroughs

The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing Game-Changing Breakthroughs

Read The Radical Innovation Playbook and discover how to successfully unleash and develop your breakthrough moment.

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The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

The first and most comprehensive book on bringing the startup mindset into large organizations.

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The Invincible Company

The Invincible Company

The invincible company review. The longawaited followup to the international bestsellers, Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design.

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The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory.

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The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup

Learn what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting.

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The Jobs To Be Done Playbook

The Jobs To Be Done Playbook

The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (JTBD) helps organizations turn market insight into action.

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The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation

The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation

How to create a culture with freethinking, entrepreneurial spirit and sustainable value creation at all levels.

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The Innovators Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

The Innovators Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

Our health care system is in critical condition. Now more than ever, the industry needs a shot in the arm. It needs The Innovator’s Prescription, the nowclassic approach to efficient, affordable health care.

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The Innovator’s Solution

The Innovator’s Solution

An innovation classic. Clay Christensen’s work continues to underpin today’s most innovative leaders and organizations.

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The Innovator’s DNA

The Innovator’s DNA

Master the five skills of disruptive innovators and move progressively from idea to impact by looking at the best innovators.

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The Innovator’s Dilemma

The Innovator’s Dilemma

Understand how outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or even disappear altogether.

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The Innovation Ultimatum: How six strategic technologies will reshape every business in the 2020s

The Innovation Ultimatum: How six strategic technologies will reshape every business in the 2020s

An accessible guide to the key technologies that will reshape business in the coming decade

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The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time

The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time

The Innovation Stack Review: From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur.

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The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most

The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most

The Innovation Delusion: Innovation is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if its benefits have been exaggerated, and our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted?

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The Innovation Mode

The Innovation Mode

The book presents a holistic view of innovation – the role of people, culture, technology, and processes. Innovation is seen as a fully integrated function that is powered by people and streamlined by technology.

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The innovation formula : the 14 science-based keys for creating a culture where innovation thrives.

The innovation formula : the 14 science-based keys for creating a culture where innovation thrives.

A practical guide to innovation strategies based on fact, not feeling The Innovation Formula delivers strategies for building a culture where innovation can thrive, based on scientific research.

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The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company’s Future

The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company’s Future

How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company’s Future- A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed.

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The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

The Innovation Book is your roadmap to creating powerful innovations that deliver success in a competitive world.

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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation

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The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs. private sector myths

The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs. private sector myths

The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths stirred up much-needed debate about the role of the state in fostering long-run innovation led economic growth.

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The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation

The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation

Robots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future.

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The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

Innovation in Leadership - How to unleash ’human magic’ and achieve improbable results.

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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking

The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking

The four lenses of innovation review - Ever wonder where big, breakthrough ideas come from? Author Rowan Gibson identifies four key business perspectives that will enable you to discover groundbreaking opportunities for innovation.

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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

You won’t see yourself - or the world - the same after confronting the elephant in the brain.

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The Design Thinking Playbook

The Design Thinking Playbook

The Design Thinking Playbook has been translated in more than a dozen languages and is packed with solutions and is highly visualized to explore the digitized future by using Design Thinking.

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The Digital Transformation Playbook

The Digital Transformation Playbook

Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy? Rethink your business for the digital age.

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The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

A new book that provides a fresh view on how to cultivate creativity in the workplace.

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The Corporate Startup

The Corporate Startup

A playbook to turn your business into an innovation engine.

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The Customer-Driven Playbook

The Customer-Driven Playbook

Many product developers wish they could work more like a startup, with small, nimble teams capable of making quick decisions.

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Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs

Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful categories of innovation.

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The Business of Healthcare Innovation

The Business of Healthcare Innovation

The Business of Healthcare Innovation is a wideranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry.

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Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

How solar could spark a cleanenergy transition through transformative innovation: creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.

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The Art of Innovation

The Art of Innovation

A story about a wildly imaginative company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit.

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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint book review - From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.

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Sustainable Innovation: Strategy, Process and Impact

Sustainable Innovation: Strategy, Process and Impact

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability.

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Running Lean

Running Lean

Running Lean Review - What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That’s the promise of Running Lean.

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Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points

Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points

The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen—and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantage.

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Social Innovation How Societies Find the Power to Change

Social Innovation How Societies Find the Power to Change

Weaving together history, ideas, policy and practice, the book shows how social innovation is now coming of age, offering a comprehensive view of what can be done to solve the global social challenges we face.

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Reframe - Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think

Reframe - Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think

Reframe Review - Why isn’t innovation happening? Why do you have UX issues? Why aren’t customers in love with your brand? Mona Patels book thinks it is because the problems are poorly defined.

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Rework

Rework

Rework shows you the way you will learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

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Reinventing Organizations

Reinventing Organizations

Bring meaning and inspiration into your organization with this practical tools for contemporary forms of organizing and leading.

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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

This is a playbook for winning. Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors.

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Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge - examples of the specific ways in which fundamental principles are applied to a range of product and service development situations.

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Process Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry

Process Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry

This book provides a comprehensive examination of process innovations occurring in the global fashion industry, with a focus on fashion brands from USA, Italy, and Japan.

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Pirates In The Navy: How Innovators Lead Transformation

Pirates In The Navy: How Innovators Lead Transformation

Most intrapreneurs recognise that innovation can’t be carried out as a series of oneoff projects but that innovation has to happen continously. How can we achieve this?

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Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success

Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success

In the old days, when we made physical products, it wasn’t so hard to set project goals. But in today’s service and software-driven world, ’done’ is less obvious.

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Measuring Innovation in Education

Measuring Innovation in Education

The ability to measure innovation is essential to an improvement strategy in education.

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Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business

Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business

Open Innovation Results offers a cleareyed view of the challenges and realities that limit the ability of organizations to create and profit from innovation.

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Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm

Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm

Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries.

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Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Many companies have come to accept that a high failure rate, and the billions of dollars lost annually, is just the cost of doing business. Monetizing Innovations argues that this is tragic, wasteful, and wrong.

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More than just luck: Innovation in humanitarian action ALNAP

More than just luck: Innovation in humanitarian action ALNAP

This report presents the synthesised findings from 15 case studies to define and understand what successful innovation looks like in the humanitarian sector.

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Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Meeting the Innovation Challenge offers a new way to look at creative leadership that integrates both leadership and management.

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Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective

Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective

Measuring Innovation is a major step towards evidencebased innovation policy making. It complements traditional “positioning”type indicators with ones that show how innovation is, or could be, linked to policy.

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick review - This book shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own message.

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Managing Innovation

Managing Innovation

Managing Innovation is an established, bestselling text for MBA, MSc and advanced undergraduate courses on innovation management.

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Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly Kindle Edition

Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly Kindle Edition

Our ideas fly when we show others their wings. Jiwa explains a whole new way to innovate and change the world.

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Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part.

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Making Ideas Happen

Making Ideas Happen

Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. According to Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be developed by anyone willing to develop their organizational habits.

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Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation

Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation

Become a Digital Master - No Matter What Business You’re In

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Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation: Trends and Drivers for Growth in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation: Trends and Drivers for Growth in the Pharmaceutical Industry

This book investigates and highlights a set of proactive strategies aimed at generating sustainable competitive advantage. It thereby focuses on three sources of pharmaceutical innovation.

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Inside Your Customer’s Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination - Organizations need to offer customers breakthrough products, services, and solutions to effectively compete in today’s innovation-hungry economy.

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Innovative Ninja : A STEAM Book for Kids About Ideas and Imagination

Innovative Ninja : A STEAM Book for Kids About Ideas and Imagination

Innovative Ninja shares how we can become more innovative by using the 3 Is. Find out what happens in this STEAM book about imagination and ideas.

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Leading Change

Leading Change

This bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization.

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Innovation Tools: The most successful techniques to innovate cheaply and effectively

Innovation Tools: The most successful techniques to innovate cheaply and effectively

The #1 Best Selling Innovation Book On Kindle. Innovation is not just a methodology but a product of hard work and careful risk management.

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Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur

Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur

Building ’step-function’ better things is going to be every innovator’s job the next few years. This book introduces the framework that can help you find those solutions simply and reliably

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Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

This book challenges some of the ‘ingrained truths’ of innovation and suggests a different approach.

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Innovation is not enough: climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance

Innovation is not enough: climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance

Innovation is not enough review - This paper contributes to the discussion on contingencies of process innovations by focusing on and introducing organizational-level constructs of climate for initiative and psychological safety.

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Innovation Strategies in the Food Industry: Tools for Implementation

Innovation Strategies in the Food Industry: Tools for Implementation

An indispensable resource for the food industry to introduce innovations in the market, stand out from the competition and satisfy consumer demands

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Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within

Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within

This book examines in detail, the conditions and practices necessary for an innovation lab.

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Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects

Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects

Actionable tools, processes and metrics for successfully managing innovation projects

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Innovation in Real Places

Innovation in Real Places

Buy innovation in real places - A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community.

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Innovation Lab Ebook

Innovation Lab Ebook

This ebook describes what an innovation lab is, why it is important and how it can be implemented.

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Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

This Journal publishes multidisciplinary papers on innovation in language learning and teaching exploring new approaches from a learner-centered perspective.

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Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World

Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World

Lets explore the work of 16 pioneers around the world who have developed new, effective approaches to education that work at scale.

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Innovation, Competition & ...

Innovation, Competition & ...

Examine issues regarding the collaborative use of Intellectual Property and its impact in the innovation process.

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Read this book to understand innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline (Peter Drucker).

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How to get Ideas

How to get Ideas

How to Get Ideas shows you - no matter your age or skill, your job or training - how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier.

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Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Corporate Playground

Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Corporate Playground

Readers of this concise and accessible book will learn how to apply Pixar’s secrets of success, which include the company’s ability to turn visions into clear directives.

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How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen

How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen

This book will help you achieve ambitious visions for learning through swift innovation. We will borrow from the people who invent what we all end up using tomorrow, create much from very little.

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

While some products immediately gain traction, others struggle to keep customers satisfied. Why is that? Hooked explains how to build products that customers love.

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations.

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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.

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Healthovate

Healthovate

Healthovate gathers vignettes from more than fifty innovative organizations whose specific breakthroughs are dramatically changing the way people receive and use products and services that enrich their health.

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Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies

Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies

Healthcare Disrupted captures this pivotal point in time to give executives and senior managers across medical companies an opportunity to step back and consider the changing landscape.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

Rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value--or risk becoming irrelevant.

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Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

This Handbook comprehensively examines indicators and statistical measurement related to innovation.

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Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

The fullest account yet of the rise of one of the most profitable, most powerful, and oddest businesses the world has ever seen.

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