Interview with Erich Joachimsthaler, Author of The Interaction Field
I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Erich Joachimsthaler, the Founder and CEO of Vivaldi, one of the largest independent global strategy and business transformation firms, to talk with him about his new book The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society, to explore the important role that connections play in both business and innovation.
Interview with Scott D. Anthony, Author of Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization
I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Scott D. Anthony of consulting firm Innosight to talk with him about his new book Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization, which is his eighth book with his co-authors Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud, and Andy Parker. Congratulations Scott!
Book Review: Innovation Abyss
Dr. Chris DeArmitt says he’s tired of hearing people constantly talk about improving innovation methods and efforts, only to find that no real innovation is actually taking place. He also suggests that books on innovation are generally written by theorists and academics; people with no hands-on experience and no real value to contribute to the actual practice of innovation. So who can tell us what’s actually going on?
The Elastic Enterprise: How to Move Beyond Innovation (and Live Happily for a Change)
Innovation, the act of creating novelty, has become omnipresent whereas what we really need to know is how to change enterprises, how to transform them, how to make them Elastic Enterprises, urges Haydn Shaughnessy in this provocative article.
The web has become an amplifier of creativity, says Seth Godin
Seth Godin published his latest book, We Are All Weird, today. In it, he explains how the web has evolved into an amplifier of creativity.
The next frontier: Digital innovation
Nicholas Webb's new book, The Digital Innovation Playbook, makes a compelling case for the idea that innovators must engage in digital channels, listen actively to customer needs that are stated or implied, and then transform these insights into innovative new products and services that deliver exceptional value.
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.
Creative Tinkering: A fascinating new book from creativity expert Michael Michalko
Michael Michalko is the author of my favorite creativity book of all time - Thinkertoys. So I was thrilled to hear that he was coming out with a new book, entitled Creative Tinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work
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.
Value Propositions: 11 Avenues for Potential Innovation
Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, in their book, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, outline 11 models for creating new value propositions in any business.
New Book Explores the Numerous Forms of Graphic Design Thinking
Visual thinking has been growing in popularity during the past several years, thanks to the rise of design thinking, mind mapping, sketching and other graphical techniques for representing ideas. A new book called Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming catalogues these techniques in a handy how-to format.
4 Key Questions that Drive the Design Thinking Process
In their new book, Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers, authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie outline four simple but powerful questions that drive the design thinking process.
New innovation book points to a sea change in the kinds of problems businesses face today
As the global economy has transitioned from an industrial to a knowledge economy, the nature of problems that businesses face has changed as well. That's why the innovation initiatives of many organizations aren't as successful as they could be, according to David Weiss and Claude Legrand in their new book, Innovation Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Leading Sustainable Innovation in Your Organization.
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.
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.
Recommended reading: A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing
I recently received a copy of a new book on open innovation, edited by Paul Sloane, that draws together some of the best advice on this growing area into a single volume.
How to develop a powerful arsenal of creative questions
Great questions are powerul creative tools, because they can help you to focus your thinking and lead it in fresh, new directions. But how can you develop an arsenal of creative questions that will help you to develop great ideas?
Thinking about starting your own venture? Then read Hugh MacLeod’s new book, ‘Evil Plans’
Are you a cubicle slave who longs to be their own boss, to take their Really Big Idea and run with it, unencumbered by the shackles of the corporate world? Then you need to pick up Hugh MacLeod's new book, Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination. Hugh MacLeod is the author of the best-selling book, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, and wickedly inspiring author of the Gaping Void cartoon series - simple, business-card-sized line drawings packed with pithy observations about life, work and meaning that have become wildly popular during the last few years. MacLeod, who formerly worked in the New York advertising world, eats his own dog food. He is now doing the work that he [...]
New book, ‘Think Unstuck,’ is a valuable creative catalyst
A new book is the perfect antidote for those times when your brain gets stuck in rutted thinking.
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.
The impact of culture on innovation
The culture of your organization can have a profound impact on many aspects of your innovation efforts. Braden Kelley offers a list of questions that you can use to determine how much your corporate culture either supports or hinders innovation.
New book from Jeffrey Baumgartner offers unique perspectives on innovation mastery
Jeffrey Baumgartner has published a new book that aims to help managers become Innovation Masters.
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.