Innovation Strategy

IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.

Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business-one that is still thriving-while dramatically reinventing it?

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace.

Discover Secrets to Victory with this Strategic Knowledge Compass, your Ultimate Guide to Winning Wars & Keeping the Peace.Are you ready to master military strategy? Buy this book and you'll immediately get a comprehensive knowledge compass guiding you to winning military strategies from history. Packed with key insights and leadership lessons from the greatest military strategies in history! Discover the secrets to effective deterrence and victory in war, and learn how to apply strategic lessons to any challenge where clear thinking, bold decision-making, and effective execution are ...

LIST OF CHAPTERS: Introduction: About this Book About the Author Part I: An Overview of Strategic Planning Part II: 100 of the Most Important of Q&A Part III: Glossary of 200 of the most Important of Terms Part IV: 100 of the Most Common Challenges and best way to address them This unique publication gives leaders, managers and professionals a clear, practical and powerful guide to building strategy that actually works. Drawing on foundations laid by the world’s leading strategy thinkers (Mintzberg, Porter etc.) and real-world experience; Musab Qureshi (Consultant from the UK) distils ...

“The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.”—The Wall Street Journal A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades...

An MBA-level toolkit in hours, not years. Business today moves fast — global, digital, and competitive. Traditional MBAs are valuable, but not everyone has the time or resources for two years of study. What professionals need instead is clarity, structure, and practical tools they can use immediately. The 500-Minute MBA is the capstone of Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman’s acclaimed Mini-MBA Series. It brings together everything from the earlier books and expands your learning into 60 advanced, case-driven lessons across six key areas: Leadership & Coaching – Emotional intelligence, ...

Unlock the Secrets to Wealth and Innovation with the Minds of Buffett and Musk! In Think Like Buffett, Act Like Musk, you’ll learn how to combine the timeless investing wisdom of Warren Buffett with the bold innovation and disruptive thinking of Elon Musk. This powerful guide will show you how to build lasting wealth, create world-changing impact, and leave a legacy that transcends time. What You’ll Discover: Master Timeless Financial Strategies: Learn how Buffett’s principles of value investing, patience, and long-term thinking can lay the foundation for consistent wealth growth and ...

Are you a leader feeling the pressure of the AI revolution but unsure where to begin? You're not alone. Many executives experience a mix of FOMO and uncertainty about artificial intelligence—knowing it's essential but overwhelmed by the complexity and jargon. Now available as an audiobook, this guide is your ultimate roadmap to breaking through those barriers and confidently leveraging AI to fuel your success—all delivered in a clear and engaging narration designed to make learning effortless and enjoyable. This guide breaks down the complexities of AI into bite-sized pieces.

In fast-moving tech markets, the biggest competitive edge is not speed but staying power. The 100 Year Tech Companies uncovers how a small circle of firms such as Nokia Siemens, IBM, Nintendo, Saint Gobain, and Ericsson. These companies possesses a strong market position in the technology sector, outlasting empires and repeated upheavals while still shaping each new era. Drawing on boardroom interviews, primary archives, and his decades inside the telecom industry, Sebastián Barros traces the decisive choices that let these organisations survive wars, depressions, and disruptive waves from...

In an era where artificial intelligence is no longer optional but essential, organizations face a profound challenge: How do we harness AI's transformative power while preserving and enhancing the uniquely human capabilities that drive sustainable success? Dr. Jonathan H. Westover, a leading authority on organizational transformation, presents a groundbreaking framework that transcends the typical technology-first approach to AI adoption. Drawing on cutting-edge research and real-world case studies, The AI-Enabled Organization offers leaders a comprehensive roadmap for creating ...

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries...

From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he...

Part memoir, part practical guide, and part leadership journey, Love as a Change Strategy takes listeners inside one company's brutally honest transformation story. Through powerful storytelling and actionable tools, the authors reveal what happens when you lead change from a place of love―not fear.

What if 87% of AI projects never make it to production—and your organization is part of that statistic? While competitors deploy machine learning models at scale with AI engineering excellence and slash costs by 40%, your team drowns in deployment bottlenecks, data pipeline failures, and models that mysteriously stop working. You've invested millions in artificial intelligence and hired brilliant data science teams, but when it comes to operationalizing deep learning innovations—making them work reliably at scale—everything falls apart. Here's the truth: While you're building better ...

Create your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning with this invaluable guide based on the national bestseller The Fifth Discipline. “The Fieldbook is a must read for anyone serious about building communities of common purpose, collective action, and continuous...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Disruption is the most powerful force of change in our lifetime. Every day we are confronted with... …sudden pivots at our workplace and in the job market …rule-changing technology such as Artificial Intelligence. …unexpected crises and a culture of chaos...

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the authors of Click and former Google Ventures partners, Sprint presents a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two...