Innovation & Product Development

Soundview Executive Book Summaries® publishes summaries of the best business books of each year on innovation issues including collaboration, change management, product development, creativity, disruptive innovation and more. Learn how to ignite the creative juices in your company to beat the competition.

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    Serial Innovators

    by Claudio Feser
    Item #: 3415
    The typical life expectancy of a company is estimated to be about 15 years. What does it take to exist beyond that average? A company must be able to keep up with changing markets. It has to learn what elements are slowing down its ability to adapt. A company must be able to continuously reinvent itself to stay relevant. Serial Innovators is a guide for how to build a company that is adaptive, innovative and can survive well into the future.
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    Disciplined Dreaming

    by Josh Linkner
    Item #: 3316
    We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity — at all levels of an organization. This executive book summary of Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Josh Linkner distills his years of experience into a 5-step process that will make creativity...
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    Change by Design

    by Tim Brown
    Item #: 33BS06
    The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This book introduces the idea of design thinking‚ the collaborative process by which the designer's sensibilities and methods are employed to match people's needs with what is technically feasible...
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    Exploiting Chaos

    by Jeremy Gutsche
    Item #: 33BS02
    In this executive book summary of Exploiting Chaos, one of the best trend spotters in North America reveals powerful strategies for thriving in any economic climate. Author Jeremy Gutsche offers examples of successful iconic companies — Disney, Hyatt, MTV, and more — that started during periods of recessions, arguing that periods of uncertainty actually fuel opportunity, reshuffle the deck and change the rules of the game.
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    Innovation X

    by Adam Richardson
    Item #: 3217
    The word innovation is one of the most widely used — and misunderstood — terms in business. What used to be a means to create a successful enterprise, improve the lives of customers, and make the world a better place has been distorted to become an end in itself — usually nebulous in definition and almost always immeasurable. Clearly, innovation is broken. But innovation is not the problem. The problem is the problem — and the solution. Innovation X defines...
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    The Innovator’s Prescription

    by Jason Hwang, Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome Grossman
    Item #: 3114
    Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen presents a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system with two pioneers...
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    From Concept To Consumer

    by Phil Baker
    Item #: 3108
    Renowned product developer Phil Baker explains how a great idea accounts for only 5 percent of all the factors of success and why the majority of success is dependent upon a myriad of other factors, including the time it takes to get to market, price, marketing and distribution. This book not only shows readers how to take an idea and turn it into a successful product, but also prepares them for what happens after the product’s introduction. It shows them how to stay one step ahead of ...
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    The New Age of Innovation

    by CK Prahalad, MS Krishnan
    Item #: 3019
    In the new age of innovation and corporate growth, business processes must be able to smoothly connect consumers and resources and at the same time manage the necessities that ensure efficiency and flexibility. Managers must become skilled at real-time actions that are event and consumer specific. Leaders will need to imagine and inspire. To accomplish the transformation that companies are faced with in order to compete globally, Prahalad and Krishnan offer a strategic plan.
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    Outside Innovation

    by Patricia B. Seybold
    Item #: 2912
    Innovation is what keeps companies at the top of their fields, and Seybold shows that the best way for companies to do this is to involve passionate customers in every aspect of their product and service design.
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