Innovation Insights to Grow Your Business

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to see it in a web browser. INNOVATION ESSENTIALS Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life by Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg This book is about getting to a state of "innovation as usual," where regular employees--in jobs like finance, marketing, sales, or operations--make innovation happen in a way that's both systemic and sustainable. Instead of organizing brainstorming sessions, idea jams, and off-sites that rarely result in success, leaders should guide their people in what the authors call the "5 + 1 keystone behaviors" of innovation: focus, connect, tweak, select, stealthstorm, (and the + 1) persist. Product #10843 (Ebook/PDF or Hardcover Book) Yours for only $25.00* BUY NOW The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations by Josh Lerner Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner—one of the foremost experts on how innovation works—says innovation can be understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Practical and thought-provoking, The Architecture of Innovation is the missing blueprint for any company looking to strengthen its innovation competence. Product #10796 (Ebook/PDF or Hardcover Book) Yours for only $28.00* BUY NOW Building a Growth Factory: Four Components that Make Innovation Repeatable by Scott D. Anthony and David Duncan Even the best-performing companies eventually stall. Sustaining momentum—and remaining a great growth company—takes a system. Scott Anthony and David Duncan call this system a "Growth Factory." In this HBR Single, Anthony and Duncan draw on their extensive experience working with these growth factory organizations—most notably Procter & Gamble and Citigroup. Product #11714E (Ebook/PDF) Yours for only $4.99* BUY NOW The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators, and provide a self-assessment for rating your own innovator's DNA. Practical and provocative, this book is an essential resource for all teams seeking to strengthen their innovative prowess. Product #14946 (Ebook/PDF or Hardcover Book) Yours for only $29.95* BUY NOW Innovation Implementation: Harvard ManageMentor Online Module A framework for turning an innovative idea into reality. Innovation is not only about generating creative ideas. Innovation results when a creative idea is put to use. However, the implementation phase is where many good ideas fail. Learn how to implement an innovation, from crafting a vision statement to managing resistance. Product #6789V (Online Tool). One year single user license. Yours for only $39.95 BUY NOW HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation If you read nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you take your business into the future—the right way. Product #11363 (Ebook/PDF or Paperback Book) Yours for only $24.95* BUY NOW The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It by Scott D. Anthony Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today—in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It's the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. No longer. In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D. Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. Product #10430 (Ebook/PDF or Hardcover Book) Yours for only $25.00* BUY NOW Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen Read the classic book that "deeply influenced" Steve Jobs, according to Walter Isaacson's new best-selling book on Jobs's life. Still the bible on disruptive innovation. How will it impact you? Product #5851 (Ebook/PDF or Hardcover Book) Yours for only $35.00* BUY NOW Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple by Stefan Thomke and Barbara Feinberg Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in the world, but how it has achieved such success remains mysterious because of the company's obsession with secrecy. Product #609066 (PDF or Hard Copy) Yours for only $6.95*. BUY NOW Innovation Metrics by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman One of the key challenges for companies seeking to improve their ability to create growth through innovation is that the metrics many companies use to measure innovation run a high risk of actually leading them in the wrong direction. This chapter describes key measurement traps and lays out fifteen potential innovation metrics companies can use to more accurately assess innovation-related activities. Product #4556BC (PDF or Hard Copy) Yours for only $6.95*. 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Boisi Professor of Marketing and a co-director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at Wharton—is for companies to undertake a systematic, disciplined review of their innovation portfolios and increase the number of major innovations at an acceptable level of risk. Product #R0712J (PDF or Hard Copy) Yours for only $6.95*. BUY NOW Innovation: The Classic Traps by Rosabeth Moss Kanter In this article, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter reflects on four major waves of innovation enthusiasm she's observed over the past 25 years. She describes the classic mistakes companies make in innovation strategy, process, structure, and skills assessment, illustrating her points with a plethora of real-world examples—including AT&T Worldnet, Timberland, and Ocean Spray. Product #R0611C (PDF or Hard Copy) Yours for only $6.95*. BUY NOW To order by phone, call us toll-free at 800-668-6780 and mention referral code 01738. 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