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INNOVATION IN ACTION
The Innovation Book is your roadmap to creating powerful innovations that deliver success in a competitive world.
It answers the following questions:
· How do you become a more innovative thinker?
· How do you lead and manage creative people?
· How can you use innovation tools to get the best results?
· How can you engage people with innovation?
· How do you avoid pitfalls, problems and screw-ups?
With a practical bite-size format, The Innovation Book will help you tackle the really important challenges and seize the most valuable
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Produktbeschreibung
INNOVATION IN ACTION

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

It answers the following questions:

· How do you become a more innovative thinker?

· How do you lead and manage creative people?

· How can you use innovation tools to get the best results?

· How can you engage people with innovation?

· How do you avoid pitfalls, problems and screw-ups?

With a practical bite-size format, The Innovation Book will help you tackle the really important challenges and seize the most valuable opportunities.

"Inspired, ambitious and complete – a must-read for anyone interested in innovation, creativity and invention."

Tom McMail, Ex-Microsoft Strategic Collaborations Director & Academic Innovations Manager

“Strips big ideas down to their essence, making the complicated understandable and turning the theoretical into real-world practical. Recommended.”

Broc Edwards, SVP, Director of Learning & Leadership

Product Description
INNOVATION IN ACTION

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

It answers the following questions:

· How do you become a more innovative thinker?

· How do you lead and manage creative people?

· How can you use innovation tools to get the best results?

· How can you engage people with innovation?

· How do you avoid pitfalls, problems and screw-ups?

With a practical bite-size format, The Innovation Book will help you tackle the really important challenges and seize the most valuable opportunities.

"Inspired, ambitious and complete – a must-read for anyone interested in innovation, creativity and invention."

Tom McMail, Ex-Microsoft Strategic Collaborations Director & Academic Innovations Manager

“Strips big ideas down to their essence, making the complicated understandable and turning the theoretical into real-world practical. Recommended.”

Broc Edwards, SVP, Director of Learning & Leadership

Backcover
INNOVATION IN ACTION

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

It answers the following questions:

· How do you become a more innovative thinker?

· How do you lead and manage creative people?

· How can you use innovation tools to get the best results?

· How can you engage people with innovation?

· How do you avoid pitfalls, problems and roadblocks?

With a practical bite-size format, The Innovation Book helps you tackle the really important challenges and start seizing the most valuable opportunities today.

"Inspired, ambitious and complete – a must-read for anyone interested in innovation, creativity and invention."

Tom McMail, ex-Microsoft Strategic Collaborations Director & Academic Innovations Manager

“Strips big ideas down to their essence, making the complicated understandable and turning the theoretical into real-world practical. Recommended.”

Broc Edwards, SVP, Director of Learning and Leadership

About the author

Author’s acknowledgements

Publisher’s acknowledgements

Introduction

How to use this book?

What is innovation?

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

part two: Leading innovators

Building a better, bigger brain

Organising people for innovation

Creating powerful innovation culture

Motivating innovators

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

part four: Winning with innovation

Winning and losing with innovation

Making innovation popular

Selling new ideas

Renewing, transforming and disrupting

Surfing waves of creativity

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
"If you want to know how to make innovation a reality, read this book before your competition does!" Dr James Canton, CEO & Chairman, Institute for Global Futures 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?
Autorenporträt
Max Mckeown (PHD, MBA, FRSA) is an author, consultant and popular speaker. He shares cutting edge research with clients in the real world of major corporations. He is the author of several books including The Truth about Innovation, Adaptability and best-selling, award-winning The Strategy Book . Max has a PhD and MBA with a speciality in strategic change and an MSc in Psychology. His research focuses on the relative effectiveness of different approaches to strategy and innovation – particularly environment and adaptation – in search of how best to deliberately create better ways of doing everything. His clients are across multiple sectors including: Phillips, Langham Hotels, Oracle, PWC, Microsoft, Virgin, Sun International, 2012 Olympics, Skype, Sony, Toyota, TopShop, Arcadia, Metro Group, TRW Automotive, Pfizer, J&J, Royal Mint, Barclays, Lloyds, Nandos, Levis, Vodafone, Capital One, GE, ITV and HSBC. www.maxmckeown.com / www.twitter.com/maxmckeown