If you're a business leader, a new product developer, or an inventor, The Innovator's Toolkit is one handy guide you shouldn't be without. It presents fundamental tools and concepts for innovation and includes methods and strategies for improving products and service or creating new ones. You'll master a four-step innovation methodology that takes you through problem identification, into ideal generation, to idea selection, and finally implementation. This one-of-a-kind guide presents an effective plan for achieving constant innovation for business success.

The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth

Business & Money

Silverstein, David

DeCarlo, Neil

Samuel, Philip

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The Suspicious Sympathy of White (Basho Tercentenary Edition Series)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Saru

A compendium of tools and techniques that every innovator needs The Innovator's Toolkit is an essential companion for every innovator, innovation team leader, operations manager, and corporate change agent who needs to drive organic growth. Written and presented in an easy-to-use reference format, the book helps users understand why, when, and how to apply each technique for maximum benefits and results. The fifty-plus tools and techniques in this book are organized around a framework for identifying innovation opportunities, generating new and unusual ideas, selecting the best ideas for further refinement, and implementing new solutions that better meet customer expectations. <ul>
<li>This revised second edition includes significant updates to nearly two dozen techniques</li> <li>Also offers several brand new techniques, including Idea Harvesting and Treatment, Seventy-six Standard Solutions, and Six Thinking Hats</li> </ul>
This updated and revised edition of The Innovator's Toolkit simply helps innovation leaders, managers, and specialists do their jobs better than ever before―giving them more confidence, greatly reducing the chance of expensive failures, and packing more practical innovation knowhow under one cover than ever before.

wiley

Innovation is central to business success, yet no other aspect of business is as frustrating and out of control. Instead of occurring in fits and starts and strokes of genius, innovation needs to become an all-the-time event that’s measurable, reliable, predictable, streamlined, and effective. Asserting that every innovation objective has a finite set of possible solutions given its unique constraints, TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, is a structured system for making innovation more manageable and profitable. 
Divided into five parts, Insourcing Innovation: How to Achieve Competitive Excellence Using TRIZ demonstrates how the applicationof a consistent, systematic approach will render innovative problem solving a dependable reality rather than an enigmatic phenomenon. 
<li>Part I provides a framework for thinking about business excellence and the case for why TRIZ is a world-class approach for achieving perpetual innovation with existing resources.</li> <li>Part II covers the tactical aspects of TRIZ, with a central focus on the TRIZ methodology (DMASI) and its primary constructs, techniques, and components.</li> <li>Part III provides implementation case examples, including an in-depth breakdown of how TRIZ was used to create a self-heating beverage container. This part also summarizes how TRIZ was applied to innovate parts of the International Space Station, the Cassini Saturn orbiter, and even hospital triage.</li> <li>Part IV transitions from the tactical aspects of TRIZ to its strategic aspects, which show you that no single innovation stands alone. All tap into one or more of eight evolutionary forces to become what they are. This part describes these forces with related examples.</li> <li>Part V discusses how structured innovation is part of the larger system of “total performance excellence.” Highlighting their interdependence, it shows how key aspects of business excellence enable structured innovation, and at the same time are enabled by structured innovation.</li>

Insourcing Innovation: How to Achieve Competitive Excellence Using TRIZ

Slocum, Michael

Economics

Auerbach Publications

Learn the Secrets of Successfully Selling to CIOs 
If you sell technology to CIOs, you know getting their attention is harder than ever. How can you break through the barriers to win their business? David Silverstein and Randy Gaboriault go straight to the source—CIOs themselves—for insider insights on what works, what doesn’t, and what they wish salespeople would do differently. 
In this book, you’ll learn everything you need to: 
Make the initial connection. Email blasts, LinkedIn invites, and cold calls don’t work; here’s what does. Be a partner, not a pest. CIOs are busy. Sleuth out info on their company and concerns without taking a second of their time. Clinch the sale. You worked hard to earn that meeting—so don’t blow it. Here’s what seals the deal (and what not to do). Build long-term relationships. Turn one sale into many by inspiring lasting loyalty from your customers.

No! I Don't Have 15 Minutes to Chat: What Top Tech Execs Wish Salespeople Knew About Getting in the Door and Earning the Business

Gaboriault, Randy

Industries

SellingtotheCIO.com

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