Truth About Innovation: A Small Book About Big Ideas - Couverture souple

Mckeown, Max

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0273719122 ISBN 13 : 9780273719120

Editeur : Pearson Business, 2008

Synopsis

The Truth About Innovation transforms today's most important innovation research into 50 proven "truths". Max Mckeown delivers plain, powerful advice on how to:

• increase creativity
• encourage collaboration
• co-create with customers
• overcome indifference
• make ideas into money
• thrive on change...and much more. 

This is the definitive, evidence-based guide to innovations - a set of bedrock principles you can rely on, regardless of your organization, role or title. Drawing on over 15 years of the author's research, consulting, training and writing experience, it can transform the way you manage innovation and the results achieved. 

The Truth About Innovation provides the guidance you need to overcome the innovation-related problems that all managers face and at the same time improve your managerial effectiveness. 

Part of The Truth About Series, each title covers an entire field of knowledge in a sharp and entertaining way. With approximately 50 honest answers to important questions in every book, you will find yourself thinking ‘aha’ as you read each page.

 

The Truth and nothing but The Truth.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Max McKeown is a new breed of management guru. Brilliant, young, original and entertaining, he could become the most listened-to British business thinker of the new era. He works as a strategic adviser for four of the five most admired companies in the world and is a well-known speaker on subjects including innovation, engagement, human potential, customer experience, marketing, team building, and competitive advantage. He has been elected to the Customer Service Hall of Fame, been nominated as a Star of Human Resources by Personnel Today, and been featured on national and international radio, television, and newspapers. Max has written six books, including E-Customer; an insight into evolving customer behaviour, Why They Don't Buy; an end-to-end guide to building profitable customer relationships across multiple channels and Unshrink, featuring the myths that stop people doing their best work and a set of new principles to engage their interest and ability.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

YOU CAN’T CONTROL WAVES SO LEARN TO SURF

Innovation rocks. It rolls. It makes the world go round. In a definitive set of ‘home-truths,’ you’ll discover how to harness its power to increase creativity, collaboration and profit. Are you ready to change the world?

55 PROVEN INNOVATION PRINCIPLES and techniques that work.

Simply the best thinking

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

“If you don't like eating someone else's dust, put this little gem of a book in every one of your collaborators' hands. That's what I'm doing right now. Watch out world!!”

 

JIM BELASCO, PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, AND AUTHOR OF TEACHING THE ELEPHANT TO DANCE

 

“Perceptive analysis of what works and what doesn’t, with useful illustrations based on the experiences of real businesses. Thought-provoking, grounded and realistic.”

 

PROFESSOR KHALID AZIZ, THE AZIZ CORPORATION

 

“Forthright, informative, witty and highly readable. This isn’t about new for old, it’s about new from old; whoever said we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel should have read this book.”

 

JONATHAN DONOVAN, TOWNHOUSE CONSULTING AND EX-HEAD OF 02 EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Business
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0273719122
• ISBN 13: 9780273719120
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Pearson Benelux BV; productsafety@pearson.com; ; Kabelweg 37; Amsterdam; 1014 BA; Pays-Bas