Business innovation

What's stopping you from doing the best work of your life?

In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs.

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'A penetrating account of the momentous consequences of a reckless young company with the power to change the world' Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The UpstartsHow much power and influence does Facebook have over our lives?

Is your business looking out?

'Change can be fear-filled in prospect but fearsome in effect.

Tomorrow's business winners need two things: scale and agility.

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.

Change your job to change your life.

Inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm and the international bestseller Our Iceberg is Melting, How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about embracing change and managing innovation in difficult times.

Explores the relationship between social characteristics of scientists and the interpersonal sharing of technological knowledge.

Successful management of radical innovation is key to growth.

The emergence of new firm-level data, including the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS), has led to a surge of studies on innovation and firm behaviour.

Presents an ultimate theory of knowledge-based management and organizational knowledge creation based on empirical research and an extensive literature review.

Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm with a heritage in the business machines industry, succeeded.

Both society and markets have changed, and the art of innovation has changed with them, becoming increasingly complex.

Understand the impact of a global ageing population on how products are bought, and the effect this has on how to market and advertise these products and services to the older generation of consumers.

In this new collection of articles on talent acquisition and retention, Adrian Furnham, author of The Elephant in the Boardroom , offers an engaging and witty look into the world of the talented manager.

Examining the regulatory issues of fostering technological innovation and its applications this book combines legal, economic and administrative science perspectives.

Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.

Why do some companies succeed better than others?

Developing BRIC markets are changing the business models of traditional western technology leaders.

This book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA.

For many years companies have been investing in enterprise systems and IT initiatives but they are now struggling to achieve the desired results.

The crisis in the auto industry has resulted in a race between Volkswagen, as challenger, and Toyota, as tattered global market leader.

Presents new methods in scenario thinking, based on a mix of high-level research and top-level consultancy experience.

Emphasizing the practical side of Technology and Innovation Management, this book includes significant contributions to the practice of strategizing, management of competences and innovation management.

Participation and social responsibility in innovation is the core theme of this book.

This book reports empirical material from three case studies in the pharmaceutical industry, the biotechnology industry and the domain of academic research.

This report provides a comprehensive look at the role of innovation in promoting economic and social development.

Analyzing the relationship between digital technologies and society this book explores a wide range of complex social issues emerging in a new digital space.

Combining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to understand what innovation is, why it matters, how it can be managed and how it can help your organization to reach its objectives.

This book provides detailed empirical analysis of countries in Asia to examine various dynamic models that incorporate the impact of technology and innovations on the industry evolution and overall economic growth.

Leading international scholars provide a timely reconsideration of how and why entrepreneurship matters for economic development, particularly in emerging and developing economies.

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances.

The complexity and tensions of industrial innovation processes are fleshed out through the analysis of an intriguing case study from the food industry.

Pay is a key element of the employment relationship and it has been advocated by some recently as a tool for enhancing organizational performance and sustained competitiveness.

Too many new products fail.

The international financial value of Grand Prix racing has grown substantially in recent years.

Development Connections takes stock of recent advances in what is broadly known as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems on a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way.

Strategy by Design illustrates how to use many of the principles, processes and tools of the design profession to create innovative break-through organizational strategies.

Equip yourself with tools to approach digital transformation within your organization successfully.

This timely and thought-provoking book argues that public sector innovation ameliorates many societal challenges in Southern Africa, demonstrating how innovative practices are already improving service delivery and addressing governance gaps.

Society forges ahead in the process of solving various contradictory problems and it is ceaselessly innovating.

Heutzutage sind Unternehmen von sehr volatilen Umweltbedingungen umgeben.

How do organizations become created?

Ours is the most dynamic era in human history.

In Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise, Audretsch and Link present a valuation method uniquely tailored to emerging technology-based ventures that have no revenue history to lean on.