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Author : BIS Publishers
Publisher : BIS Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9063694962
Inspires you how to develop an innovative mindset, start innovation in practice, ideate new ideas, create a culture for innovation and how to implement innovation projects.
Author : James M Utterback,Sten Ekman,Susan Walsh Sanderson,Bengt-arne Vedin,Roberto Verganti,Bruce Tether,Eduardo Alvarez
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814365536
When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension of the user. It creates meaning and a new language.Design-Inspired Innovation takes a unique look at the intersection between design and innovation, and explores the novel ways in which designers are contributing to the development of products and services. The book's scope is international, with emphasis on design activities in Boston, England, Sweden, and Milan. Through a rich variety of cases and cultural prisms, the book extends the traditional design viewpoint and stretches the context of industrial design to question — and answer — what design is really all about. It gives readers tools for inspiration, and shows how design can change language and even create human possibilities.
Author : Ravi Menon
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811251092
Ravi Menon is the Institute of Policy Studies' 9th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered in July 2021, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our virtual audience.Mr Menon examines how Singapore will come under pressure from four tectonic shifts altering the global landscape. Although still relevant, Singapore's guiding ethos of adaptation, meritocracy, and pragmatism may no longer be sufficient. To secure our future, we will need more innovation, inclusion, and inspiration. What does an innovative economy look like? What does it take to create a more inclusive society? What does it mean to be an inspiring nation? How does it all hold together in a refreshed Singapore Synthesis?The IPS-Nathan Lecture series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. It seeks to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest for Singapore.
Author : Janine M. Benyus
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780061958922
Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
Author : Pamela McCauley Bush
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780123969934
Transforming Your STEM Career Through Leadership and Innovation offers valuable information on what it means to be a leader and innovator and encourages you to discover and develop these skills for yourself. This book integrates leadership and innovation principles with personal examples and profiles of inspirational women. By providing a clear process on how to build upon your personal strengths to realize leadership and innovation goals, this book will inspire you to pick up the mantle and meet the critical need for leadership and innovation in the STEM fields. This is a must-have guide that is relevant and valuable for women in all stages of their careers. Examines research-based leadership and innovation principles to make these critically important characteristics both real and attainable Empowers you to build upon your own strengths and successes to discover and develop leadership and innovation skills Features a companion website that highlights women's leadership success stories, innovation resources and best practices Provides a practical guide that educates, encourages and equips you to pursue leadership and innovation opportunities
Author : Alf Rehn
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749484095
How many presentations on innovation have there been recently? Thousands? Millions? We are experiencing 'innovation fatigue': we feel cheated by the endless rounds of consultants who come into our organizations, deliver conceptual models that don't stick with the realities of business and then leave again. Companies and teams are left feeling more deflated than before, and with not one idea that's impacted the bottom line. Innovation for the Fatigued argues it is worth fighting for the concept and study of innovation in organizations. Business leaders are always looking over their shoulders for the next Uber moment to overtake them, and they recognize that innovation needs to be a top priority. But how does one innovate? This book is the antidote to the empty promises that pervade the innovation industry. By designing a company culture that nurtures ideas, but also defends against incrementalism and fads, we can rediscover the powerful basics of imagination, empathy, play and courage, which are all instrumental in delivering real impactful innovation. Innovation for the Fatigued will detail where companies have got innovation wrong, whilst celebrating and studying the ones that lead the way. With unique, relatable and varied examples, renowned innovation and creativity professor Alf Rehn provides a practical model for getting innovation back on track, and instilling change at speed with real concern for market demands.
Author : Andy Stefanovich
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118019610
Why does real innovation elude so many companies, including those with the best technology, the cheapest resources, and even chief innovation officers? The problem is that they lack inspiration. Inspiration—as defined and outlined in this book—is a discipline (not to be confused with the real but short-lived burst of energy that sometimes occurs after quarterly earnings reports or the arrival of a charismatic new leader). It is a systematic approach that, when applied consistently, brings long-term, sustainable results. Look At More teaches you how to harness inspiration by thinking differently—and to encourage others to do the same. Designed to be an individual and organizational hands-on guide, Look At More focuses on the front end of the Inspiration–Creativity–Innovation continuum. Using Stefanovich’s proven LAMSTAIH approach (Look At More Stuff, Think About It Harder), leaders and employees can develop the practical skills, leadership behavior, and cultural mindset to consistently create ideas and drive innovation. Built on the principles of the five M’s for unleashing creativity within an organization, Look At More explores: MOOD: The attitudes, feelings, and emotions that create the context for inspiration and creativity MINDSET: The intellectual foundation and baseline capacity each of us has for getting inspired and thinking differently MECHANISMS: The tools and processes of creativity at work MEASUREMENT: The qualitative and quantitative performance and the guidance for giving critical feedback MOMENTUM: The active championing of celebrating inspiration and creativity to create a self-reinforcing cycle for growing innovation Together the five M’s can act as a diagnostic tool and a guide for inspiring individuals, empowering teams, and transforming organizations to become true models of innovation. For more information, please visit www.prophet.com/lookatmore
Author : Pavie Xavier
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813273016
'All power to the imagination' is a famous slogan. This book confirms it is much more than just a slogan, showing how imagination can, in no uncertain way, be a reality. Some 40 outstanding personalities share their insights on their relationship with imagination in their respective fields of study. An astronaut, a philosopher, an environmental activist, a mathematician, an anthropologist, an actor, an astrophysicist, and even a singer — all share how they managed to unlock the power of their imagination to achieve extra-ordinary things.This book is the collective work of men and women from wide-ranging backgrounds, each of whom has contributed to the advancement of our society, making this world more beautiful, just and humane through the power of their imagination. This is the first time an anthology has brought together the thoughts of such prestigious and world-renowned personalities. Through these unique, disruptive, powerful, energizing, often touching, and always very personal testimonies, this book seeks to offer inspiration for each and all of us, so that we too, can find the path to our own imagination.Whether French, Chinese, English, Swiss, Canadian, American, Irish, Belgian, Danish, Algerian or Singaporean, these 40 thought-leaders share their vision of imagination through their personal journey and experience. They do not try to show us the path we must take, but rather invite us to follow our own. The diversity of the backgrounds and expertise of these world-renowned experts is what gives this mosaic of inspirational texts its rich meaning, a diversity which serves to underline what all these journeys and experiences have in common: how essential imagination is in building the society of tomorrow.This anthology is edited by Xavier PAVIE, Professor at ESSEC Business School, Director of the iMagination Center, and Research Associate at the Research Institute in Philosophy of the University of Paris Nanterre (IREPH).
Author : Paul Sloane
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749452056
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." Jack Welch, former CEO, GE The Innovative Leader stresses the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage over rivals. It shows how to apply the methods described to the individual, to others and to the organization. Author Paul Sloane demonstrates the importance of setting out your vision clearly and emphasizes the need for continual evaluation of the process. Numerous international examples illustrate how organizations such as Virgin, Body Shop, WPP and 3M have benefited from this approach, encouraging excellence and entrepreneurship through setting challenging goals to keep employees motivated and engaged.
Author : Angeli Sachs,Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037780983
"Nature has been a source of inspiration in the design of the human environment, and its influence on contemporary design is more than evident. The "model of nature," with its forms, structures, and organizing principles, does not only inspire the widest range of concept and design processes, but also can be expressed in a broad spectrum of forms and functions. Nature Design addresses this phenomenon from the eighteenth century until today, and presents an international selection of objects and projects from the fields of design, architecture, landscape architecture, art, photography, and scientific research that do not simply depict or imitate nature, but use it as a starting point and reservoir of inspiration for eclectic and innovative responses to the relationship between man and his environment." --Book Jacket.
Author : David Johnston,Tom Jenkins
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780735270602
This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a way to celebrate our history and world contributions on Canada's 150th birthday. Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces -- insight, necessity and simple luck. Innovation Nation moves through history to explore what circumstances, incidents, coincidences and collaborations motivated each great Canadian idea, and what twist of fate then brought that idea into public acceptance. From the marvels of aboriginal inventions such as the canoe, igloo and lifejacket to the latest pioneering advances in medicine, education, science, engineering and the arts, Canadians have improvised and worked together to make the world a better place. With striking, vibrant illustrations throughout, Innovation Nation is a gorgeous companion to the adult edition that will surprise, enlighten and entertain young readers, and will be a valuable resource for teachers and librarians.
Author : Robert F Brands,Martin J. Kleinman
Publisher : Wiley + ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470620984
The corporate innovation guru shares a ten-step program for keeping your company competitive in today’s fast-changing marketplace. Let’s face it, whether you manage a multinational company or an entrepreneurial start-up—and whether you’re a manufacturer, distributor, service provider, supplier, retailer, or a not-for-profit—today’s pressure to excel is unprecedented. Robert’s Rules of Innovation introduces easy-to-implement, world-class guidance for starting, nurturing, and profiting from a culture of sustained innovation in the work environment. Robert’s Rules of Innovation chronicles decades of collective, invaluable experience contributed by Innovation guru Robert Brands and his international network of Innovate-For-Success experts. Much like Robert’s Rules of Order, which created order from chaos in meetings around the world, Robert’s Rules of Innovation sets a new standard for “doing” Innovation, equipping you with the principles needed to: Inspire, lead, and drive the process Build value for your Innovation Manage risk, without letting fear of failure kill innovation Create a formalized New Product Development (NPD) process—an absolute must Observe, measure, and track NPD results—essential to optimal ROI Convince others to work outside their comfort zone Properly hire and train staff in ways that support your company’s mindset Stay open to new ideas Grow profitably And more Get passionate about creativity. Prepare to unleash your team’s abilities. Create the next home-run new product. Do it all with the high-performance ideas found in Robert’s Rules of Innovation.
Author : Brenda Dunams
Publisher : Pencil
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789358836288
Exploring the possibilities for, "Infinite Inspiration: Igniting Imagination for Innovation". Infinite Inspiration: Igniting Imagination for Innovation. The term "infinite" implies an unlimited and endless source of inspiration. Inspiration" refers to the spark that ignites our creativity and fuels our desire to innovate. "Igniting Imagination" signifies the process of awakening our creative faculties and unleashing our imaginative potential. "For Innovation" emphasizes the purpose of this infinite inspiration: to drive innovation. Overall, "Infinite Inspiration: Igniting Imagination for Innovation" is a powerful concept that encourages us to tap into the limitless wellspring of ideas and creativity within us.
Author : Karen Goodnough,Gerald Galway,Cecile Badenhorst,Rob Kelly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739174227
Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited collection that offers a variety of conceptual and research-based discussions on teaching and teacher education in Canada and internationally. The ideas, research, and practices presented in the book focus on three broad themes: the essence of teacher education, innovative practices in teacher education, and emerging issues in teacher education. The book includes chapter contributions from a group of international scholars, teacher educators, and teachers who are adopting innovation in how they are conceptualizing teaching and teacher education and in how they are engaging in the practices of teaching and teacher education. The contributions examine emerging issues that have far-reaching implications for what we do in teacher education, elucidating the successes, opportunities, and challenges inherent in teacher education. The contributors to this book are inspiring others to examine their own beliefs and practices about what constitutes effective teacher education.
Author : Jeremy Gutsche
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781732439153
Learn to Innovate and Make Real Change In our era of disruption and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within your grasp; however, most smart and successful people miss out. Unfortunately, your capabilities are limited by the seven traps of path dependency, which cause you to repeat past decisions. These traps can limit you from seeing the potential of what could be. If you could overcome these traps, what could you accomplish? How much more successful could you be? Create the Future teaches you how to think disruptively, providing specific steps to create real innovation and change. This book combines Jeremy's high energy, provocative thinking with tactics that have been battle-tested through thousands of his team's projects advising leading innovators like Disney, Starbucks, Amex, IBM, Adidas, Google, and NASA. On top of all that, this is a double-sided book, paired with The Innovation Handbook, a revised edition of Jeremy's award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos.