How to Innovate

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

This overview course is great to learn how to plan, build and launch fully automated innovation workflows — for beginners and experienced innovators alike.

The ability of a firm to prepare the business for the future while also supporting current operations.

What are Competencies for Innovation? The ways in which a company utilizes its resources.

A company’s capacity to adapt to an evolving market through change, innovation, and learning. A firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external resources to address rapidly changing environments.

Hybrid thinking means to be able to combine different ways of thinking and quickly switch between one and the other. Milan Guenther defines the term Hybrid Thinking as "the ability to integrate different ways of thinking, jump between them, and align them to work towards a universal goal".

A growth hacker explores the next growth opportunities, mostly in a startup environment.

Hyper-adoption of innovation describes the ability to adopt to innovation at an unmatched speed and skill.

The jobs-to-be-done theory is an approach to truly understand and cater towards customer needs.

Knowledge management is about how an organization not only obtains but also uses and stores collective knowledge.

An MVP is a prototype of a product or service that contains basic features to test the product in the market without being fully developed y

A napkin sketch is the simple drawing of one single idea, explaining what the idea is about without going into details how it works.

Prototyping is the process of creating a physical or virtual representation of a product, system or service to evaluate its usability or performance.

Qualitative research is used to find non-numerical data. It thereby focuses for example on people's experiences, behaviours or interactions.

Quantitative research focuses on numerical data and often tries to find patterns and relationships in big sets of data.

Radical innovation is a type of innovation that creates new markets or dramatically changes existing markets. It produces highly differentiated, system-altering creations.

What are Sensing Capabilities? The skill of a firm in sensing opportunities in the market before competitors. This is often done through the use of data, analytics and technology.

In innovation a storyboard means a visualization of the experience of a customer during service delivery or product usage.

Essentially a prototype of a service experience, the simulation may consist of role play or a full-scale example of a service delivery.

A user journey map, also called customer journey map, is a visualization of a user's interactions with a company.

The Value Proposition is the offering to the customer, and the reason they should purchase a product. It is the offering of value that sets a product, service or brand apart from its competitors.

This book explains how to use the power of the internet to build and innovate in order to introduce a consumer democracy that has never existed before.

5 Ideas A Day eBook – What happens when you come up with 5 ideas for 365 days? What’s included:🚀 1825 ideas💡 Tips and advice for generating ideas.

Each section gives a simple introduction to the method and describes Nesta’s work in relation to it. In each case we have also provided a link to further relevant resources.

Alchemy: HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN? The Ogilvy advertising legend--’one of the leading minds in the world of branding’ (NPR)--explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products and ideas.

Ask your developer - The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die. Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition?

Free copy of the ’60 Leaders on innovation’ e-book - a unique collection of thought leadership and actionable insights on innovation.

Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius - The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created.

In his award winning book, Beyond the Obvious, McKinney dispels the myth that you have to be born with the gift of creativity and innovation.

The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up.

Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth.

Read this handbook for visionaries and game changers to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises.

A book explaining design thinking, the collaborative process by which the designer's sensibilities and methods are employed.

A powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.

Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle there is a vast gap between the early adopters and the early majority. The challenge for innovators and marketers is to narrow this gap.

To date, the literature on innovation has focused on either radical, technology-driven innovation or incremental, market-pulled innovation.

Selected as one of the ’Best Books on Innovation, 2008’ by BusinessWeek magazine - a well thought-through proposal for using technology to better serve students.

In Digital Goddess, Montgomery-Brown—founder of Big Think shares her story in an entertaining and educational light.

Most would admit they've failed to create truly innovative cultures. Theres a better way. And it all starts with the power of habit.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Ultimately, you will understand how the business world is changing and how to adapt now to stay relevant and in demand.

Ultimately, innovators need to be someone new to create something new. This book shows you how to use design thinking to make this happen.

To remain competitive in today’s marketplace, companies must adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs.

42 Insights and Interviews with Influencers, Startups, Investors about the cities of the future.

How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Actionable tools, processes and metrics for successfully managing innovation projects

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A playbook to turn your business into an innovation engine.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Listen to this episode for Christine’s learnings of working in leading innovation hubs and corporate venture builders, for her biggest takeaways from her time with Alibaba in China.

In this episode I have the pleasure to speak to Jakob Storjohann, the founder of ideanote.io. Enjoy!

Pivoting is better than going bankrupt.