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Becoming an Everyday Innovator: Start with Baby Steps

Becoming an Everyday Innovator: Start with Baby Steps

Innovation is one of the best ways of overcoming business challenges—yet it’s often misrepresented as being overly complex.. You don’t have to be on the innovation team to be more creative, nimble, or agile. You don’t have to be part of a complex process or approach. You just need to focus on a few core underlying skills. Innovation is simple and it starts with you.

Getting Out of the Solution Bubble: A Simple First Step to Building an Innovative Organization

Getting Out of the Solution Bubble: A Simple First Step to Building an Innovative Organization

Corporate innovation, to borrow from Winston Churchill’s description of Russia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an ever-growing cloud of hype. Finding substantive guidance is made even more difficult by the dizzying array of books on the topic, which too often value anecdote and feel-good advice over rigorous application. Fortunately, for those struggling to increase their own innovation capacity as well as that of their organization, there are several books that can help solve this puzzle. Following are 12 hidden gems and forgotten classics from key categories within innovation.

12 Essential Innovation Books (you probably never heard of)

12 Essential Innovation Books (you probably never heard of)

Corporate innovation, to borrow from Winston Churchill’s description of Russia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an ever-growing cloud of hype. Finding substantive guidance is made even more difficult by the dizzying array of books on the topic, which too often value anecdote and feel-good advice over rigorous application. Fortunately, for those struggling to increase their own innovation capacity as well as that of their organization, there are several books that can help solve this puzzle. Following are 12 hidden gems and forgotten classics from key categories within innovation.