Chuck Frey

In his new book, innovation expert Stephen Shapiro recommends taking a challenge-driven approach to innovation, rather than open-ended idea collection, which tends to be wasteful of human resources and rarely delivers problem-solving ideas.

Harvesting Intangible Assets: Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company's Intellectual Property by Andrew Sherman is a clear, comprehensive guide to identifying, managing and leveraging your organizations intellectual assets – which may include patents, trademarks, customer information, software code, databases, business models, systems, processes and employee expertise.

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future - Just Enough is a must-read for innovators and strategists. Read on to learn why.

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.

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

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.