Clayton Christensen’s New Book on the Disruption of Higher Education
Higher education is heading for disruption. In the new book The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education From the Inside Out, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring explore why this is inevitable and what traditional universities and colleges can do about it. Professor Bill Fischer, himself an avid believer in disruption, reviews this book covering an extremely timely subject.
Book Review: Relentless Innovation
In his new book Relentless Innovation, prolific innovation author Jeffrey Phillips looks at innovation from an enterprise-level perspective, encouraging companies to adopt an innovation capability that can be scaled and repeated throughout the firm, rather than attempt the one-off innovation initiatives that are common to big businesses today.
The Hidden Driver of Innovation at Apple – Revealed
One of the things that's becoming abundantly clear from reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is that a key to the company's innovation wasn't just Jobs' prodigious talent and relentless drive for creating "insanely great" products. There was also another element that I haven't seen anyone talking about as they eulogize this technology giant.
Innovating the End-to-End Customer Experience at Apple
One of the central themes of Walter Isaacson's powerful Steve Jobs biography is the extent to which Jobs and the Apple team have gone to innovate and manage the customer experience from end-to-end.
Book Review:The Innovation Masterplan
Many companies tout innovation in their marketing. Being perceived as innovative is important. But the message and reality can only diverge temporarily. A new book by Langdon Morris is providing a simple but very effective framework to guide CEOs as they address what many perceive as the dilemma of innovation.
Predictive Computing and What it Means to Innovators
In this interview with Kevin Maney, co-author of The Two-Second Advantage, I dig deeper into what the rise of predictive computing means to innovators.
Winning at New Products –Creating Value through Innovation
In a completely revised and updated fourth edition, Robert Cooper reminds us that his Stage-Gate process has become the most widely used method for managing new products in industry today. Stage-Gate is an ideas-to-launch process that encompasses a solid body of knowledge and best practice gleaned from studies of thousands of new product developments.
The Innovator’s DNA
What are the characteristics or skills of a strong innovator? In The Innovator’s DNA, authors Dyer, Gregersen and Christensen set out five skills or attributes they claim are consistently demonstrated by successful innovators. The identification of these attributes is helpful but the book fails to fully address how firms should take advantage of the new insights, especially at an enterprise level.
New Book Introduces The Innovation Master Plan Framework
Progress in every field requires a framework that makes the key principles and practices understandable and actionable. In his new book, The Innovation Masterplan, Langdon Morris presents a comprehensive new framework for innovation management. This is the first part in a series of eleven chapters.
The Innovation Gap
Continuing our week of discussion on new directions for innovation David Weiss and Claude Legrand discuss the innovation challenge in an extract from their new book. Innovative Intelligence. Why don't leaders truly lead on innovation?
Taking Design Thinking Up a Level: Brand Driven Innovation
Even companies that do not invest in design thinking do invest in designing their brand. In a new book, Brand Driven Innovation, Erik Roscam Abbing looks at how brand should be redesigned and how that helps the innovation process.
Brand Driven Innovation
Erik Roscam Abbing's book ‘Brand Driven Innovation’ describes a new way of thinking about- and practising innovation, driven also by a unique view of the brand. Eric shares the story of how Brand Driven Innovation came into being and what it means for an organisation’s innovation practise.
Collaboration & Co-Creation: New Platforms for Marketing & Innovation, by Gaurav Bhalla, published by Springer, 2011
A new book by Innovation Management contributor Gaurav Bhalla tackles the growing importance of the customer in the innovation process. Paul Hobcraft looks at what it means to collaborate and co-create with customers.
Open Services Innovation by Henry Chesbrough
Chesbrough is back with a new book on open innovation, this time extending the open paradigm to services. Paul Hobcraft goes past the sub-title “Rethinking your business to grow and compete in a new era”, in search of the real news.
Personality Poker: The Playing Card Tool for Driving High-Performance Teamwork and Innovation
In this book review Paul Hobcraft looks at "Personality Poker: The Playing Card Tool for Driving High-Performance Teamwork and Innovation" by Stephen M Shapiro.
Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire- a Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose
In this book review Paul Hobcraft looks at “Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire- a Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose” by Braden Kelley, published by Wiley.
Service Innovation: How to go From Customer Needs to Breakthrough Services
In this book review Paul Hobcraft looks at “Service Innovation: How to go from customer needs to breakthrough services,” a book by Lance Bettencourt, published by McGraw-Hill.
Reshaping Strategy: Exploring the Content, Process and Context of Strategic Innovation
In this book review Paul Hobcraft looks at “Reshaping Strategy: Exploring the Content, Process and Context of Strategic Innovation” a book by Marc Sniukas, published at VDM Verlag.
The other side of innovation
In this week's book review Ellen DiResta looks at The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge, by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, two faculty members from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, published by Harvard Business Review.
Seizing the White Space- Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal
In this book review Paul Hobcraft looks at “Seizing the White Space”- Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal, a book by Mark. W Johnson, published by Harvard Business Press.
Business Model Generation
In this book review Paul Hobcraft looks at Business Model Generation- a book written by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur, along with 470 co-authors, published in two editions, one self published the other by John Wiley & sons.
The Open Innovation Revolution- essentials, roadblocks and leadership skills
In this book review Paul Hobcraft has taken the opportunity to go through Stefan Lindegaard’s book “The Open Innovation Revolution- essentials, roadblocks and leadership skills” published by Wiley.
The transformation imperative
Scott Anthony, in his new book, The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times, does an excellent job of making the case for corporate transformation, and why it is an appropriate approach can help companies to escape their narrowing options in today's turbulent economy.
The six attributes of innovation leaders
In his new book, Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation, Jean-Philippe Deschamps explains that innovation leaders are unique and rare individuals who must possess a unique set of seemingly opposed characteristics.