Author : Itzhak Goldberg
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821387413
Innovation and technology absorption are now firmly recognized as one of the main sources of economic growth for emerging and advanced economies alike. International R&D collaboration and FDI are critical and require government support programs, specially financial ones.
Author : Ravi Arora
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2019-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9352777808
Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata group is a global enterprise, headquartered in India, comprising thirty companies across ten clusters. The group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents. What does the Tata group do to encourage and enhance innovation in these companies that are well established and also several other smaller and fledgling companies? Tata InnoVista is a thirteen-year-old flagship innovation programme of the Tata Group. Over the years, Tata InnoVista has fired the imagination of people across Tata companies and has become one of the sought-after platforms for Tata managers. It has been presented to and researched by management experts globally, including those in Harvard Business School, London Business School and INSEAD. This book explores how InnoVista has inspired thousands of managers and is building a culture of innovation. It also explains how this programme is building capability on innovation and serves as a unique measurement system for companies on innovativeness.
Author : April Bell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Did you know that over 70% of executives and CEO's believe innovation and empathy are key to their company's growth, yet most don't know how to incorporate either into the company culture? Many struggle to successfully innovate in their work or personal life, but author and researcher April Bell has zeroed in on the power of empathy and the ability to embrace risk. In her book, The Fire Starter: Igniting Innovation With Empathy, she explains why empathy is crucial for innovation, how you can further develop and strengthen your own empathy, and how you can use it to fuel inspiration and solutions. Bell combines engaging personal stories with research to provide readers with a simple framework helping them connect to greater human truths to solve big problems. In Fire Starter, through a series of self-explorative questions and exercises, you will discover: How to use your own curiosity to become more empathetic How to reframe the desire for perfection to open new pathways for innovation Why discernment is essential to any problem solving process April Bell's The Fire Starter: Igniting Innovation With Empathy will give you the tools to ignite creativity, empower relationships, and inspire possibility through empathy and self-discovery.
Author : Kari L. Lampikoski
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Far from setting down hard and fast rules for organizational innovativeness, the authors introduce the concept of situational innovativeness recognizing that depending on the strategic objectives, conditions, and business environment companies face, managers have to be able to react accordingly, i.e. to choose a relevant combination of innovative management role-composition. Using the anecdotal form, the authors demonstrate how examined managerial traits and characteristics contribute to success, but also how certain traits carried out to excess or in an inflexible manner can signal the beginning of potential failure.
Author : Allan M. Hoffman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1442204486
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad of success stories are being forged among educational institutions, supporting industries, and educational consortia that are embracing innovative approaches to all aspects of the higher education system. This book spotlights those fresh approaches and aims to bring higher education professionals together, as part of a broad, national movement to motivate reflection and encourage similar dynamic efforts. The editors and expert contributors focus in particular on areas such as measures of academic quality, benchmarking, faculty development, retention, curriculum development, technology, and facilities. In each case, this book illustrates successful pilot programs and documents tools that have proven to maximize efficiencies crucial to the continued success of the entire higher learning community.
Author : George Wilton
Publisher : Az Boek
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 625646866X
Discover the Renaissance Revolution.
Author : Jay Inslee
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1597266493
In this book the authors make the case for renewable energy and renewable energy policy. Each chapter begins with an inspiring story by someone working in renewable energy or a related field.
Author : Nikos Acuña
Publisher : Onearchetype
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Creative ability in business
ISBN : 9780985806613
Marketers often use the term mindshare to illustrate the popularity of a brand. But its implications go much deeper than influencing purchase behavior. Mindshare is a gift-a form of creative commerce and collective intelligence. Told in a rich, lyrical style, Mindshare is a portrait of the modern creative mind and a narrative of its process, a practical guide, and a plea for ambition that captures the imagination by exploring the dynamic nature of creativity and innovation as a multifaceted, integrated craft and the creation of consciousness. This book explores innovation within the audacious scope and framework that truly illustrates its paradoxical and kaleidoscopic nature. It empowers us with the notion that innovation is an intrinsic collective power driven by the same creative instinct that fuels our desires, seeks pleasure, strives to be better, and dares to discover new worlds. This reveals a groundbreaking worldview-that the essence of life is not survival but creation. Building a remarkable brand, overcoming any challenge, and achieving anything in life are the result of design intelligence. Mindshare is about how organizations and individuals can use design strategies to be more innovative, distinctive, and successful. But it's also about our essential nature, how to use our creative instinct to live a more fulfilling life, and how creativity shapes the modern world. The awareness of this process achieves mindshare-an intrinsic collective power that has the potential to help us design a better world.
Author : Doug Hall
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 157860284X
Ideal for inspiring marketers, artists, teachers, and anyone who needs fresh ideas for work and home, Jump Start Your Brain helps readers crank up both their cranium and career. Featuring smart and creative methods for providing better leadership, igniting sales and marketing, and realizing dreams with breakthrough innovations, this book teaches time-tested practices that generate creativity and innovation. Relying on the latest research, the author pinpoints which methods and techniques work best in today's high-stress world so readers can get a leg-up on the competition.
Author : Kaihan Krippendorff
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231548362
Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are society’s main source of innovation. Young founders leave college with a big idea, get to work in a garage, and build something that changes the world. Typical corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In Driving Innovation from Within, strategist and advisor Kaihan Krippendorff disproves one of today’s biggest business myths to highlight lessons for innovators and leaders. He reveals how many of the modern world’s most impactful creations were invented by passionate employee innovators. If it were left up to go-it-alone entrepreneurs, we would not have mobile phones, personal computers, or e-mail. Distilling more than 150 interviews with internal innovators and leading experts along with insights from the latest research and today’s most successful companies, from Tencent and Amazon to Mastercard and Starbucks, Krippendorff lays out a step-by-step playbook to unlock innovation from the inside. He maps the barriers that frustrate efforts to disrupt from within and provides tools to remove them, detailing how visionary leaders can create islands of freedom inside an organization to activate existing employees’ potential and beat startups at their own game. Driving Innovation from Within is a practical and inspiring guide to leadership from all levels for those who want the fulfillment of changing the world without leaving their job in order to do it.
