Business Innovation

What can you learn from the world’s most successful companies? The Marvel Studios Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled a struggling comic book publisher to parlay the power of myth and storytelling to become one of history’s most successful movie studios.

Are you an entrepreneur or business leader, feeling overwhelmed by AI assistants, chatbots, machine learning, Agentic AI and the surge of Large Language Models, but don’t know how to make them work for your business? What if you could have repetitive and time-consuming tasks managed by Artificial Intelligence—freeing you, your team and your business to focus on innovation, strategic thinking, and next-level customer experiences? Whether you’re a total beginner or already know some AI basics but haven’t explored AI agents deeply, this book will guide you. Discover how AI agents can ...

Highly acclaimed author, trainer, and presenter Paul Sloane demonstrates how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture, and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. With a lively, energetic and practical approach, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and reveal how to put the techniques to work immediately.

#1 Must-Read for Future-Focused Leaders, Innovators & Change-Makers Are you ready to stop reacting to change—and start creating it? Disruption doesn’t knock—it crashes in. Whether it’s a sudden shift in market dynamics, groundbreaking technologies like AI, economic uncertainty, or global crises, one thing is clear: the world is changing faster than ever. And in today’s high-stakes environment, those who wait to adapt are already behind. Seeing the Future: Anticipating Disruption, Creating Opportunity, and Leading Forward is your essential playbook for thriving in a world of chaos,...

Organizational Creativity is a potent competitive advantage in any organization, but many a times not given its due importance. The journey towards becoming an innovative organization starts by sparking the creativity of the employees. Generating new ideas or overcoming challenges in an organization is easily aided using the concept of radiant and visual thinking via Mind Maps. This is a quick read e-book to bring CEO’s, HR heads, Managers and all interested to speed on the basics of Mind Mapping and how it can be applied in a variety of situations inside any organization.

Embark on an expedition through the digital age with "The Silicon Commandments," an eBook that is set to redefine the entrepreneurial rulebook and guide you through the intricate world of tech start-ups and innovation. This comprehensive digital tome is your golden ticket to not just understanding but mastering the multifaceted tech industry. Chapter by chapter, "The Silicon Commandments" leads you through the foundational principles that every tech entrepreneur should command. From perceiving the subtle needs of the market and forging a product that fits like a glove within its niche, to ...

Entrepreneurship and Business Development in 100 Minutes In sprint with fun to the point for all Long distance for all is out! Our time is characterised by speed, speediness and breathtaking progress. In-depth knowledge is increasingly reserved for specialists. The number of complex texts on the subject of entrepreneurship and business development is overwhelming. This book is different: with 100 pages, it is condensed to the point and written in an extremely accessible way. It is aimed at interested young people, students of all fields of study, people in practice, entrepreneurs and anyone...

WHAT'S NOW POSSIBLE “Wow! Everything that Magnus says is somewhat contrary to our official positions on successful innovation. I knew I had to read this book - and I’m very glad that I did.” — Philip Kotler World-renowned thought leader, Magnus Penker, details a modern approach to innovation in his latest work Play Bold – How to Win the Business Game Through Creative Destruction. Warning! This book is disruptive! Reading the following episodes and implementing the advice therein may result in double digit growth, outperforming competitors, new revenue streams, exceptionally faster...

Leveraging more than two decades of experience organizing innovation tournaments in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, from Buenos Aires to Kuwait City, Shanghai to Moscow, and with many Fortune 500 companies, two renowned researchers, entrepreneurs, and the foremost experts on innovation tournaments offer a template that you can use to generate winning ideas that will drive great outcomes―whatever your challenges, whatever your business.

How effective is your innovation system? How many leaders in your organization are delighted by the innovations they see coming from their teams? How many customers compliment you on the innovative products and services they receive from your organization? How many employees are inspired by the creative work they are doing, and their personal development as a result of your innovation system? How many people talk about your organization as having a culture of innovation? Organization’s often fail to achieve real results from their innovation systems even though they have: Set up an ...

Good ideas are killing great companies. A waste of money, brains, and time (WOMBAT) is guaranteed if your company thinks product first, market second. Every late-stage failure, every “pivot,” is a testament to this. When you’re wrong about the market, you cannot be right about the product, so why is innovation done this way? Needs-Driven Innovation—inspired by Stanford University’s Biodesign—turns the typical innovation process on its head. Instead of failing with product-market fit, NDI discovers market-product fit. Every time.

“The CTO’s key tasks are not those of lab director writ large but, rather, of a technical businessperson deeply involved in shaping and implementing overall corporate strategy.” - MIT Sloan Management Review What does it take to be a great CTO? Leadership - Expertise - Innovation - Teamwork - Relationships - Passion In the 21st century, every company that is going to be a leader in its industry needs an executive who is focused on identifying, tracking, developing, and profiting from new and emerging technologies. General Electric, Motorola, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and hundreds of ...

The One Man Marketing Machine: The Path to $25,000+/Month with No Employees, No Office, and a Handful of Clients Unlock the secret to unparalleled success with "The One Man Marketing Machine," a groundbreaking guide that reveals how to make over $25,000 per month without the hassles of employees, office space, or a sprawling client list. Perfect for solopreneurs, this book is your ticket to mastering marketing and sales while maximizing your unique skills. Are you tired of working for a boss you don’t like, commuting every day, and clocking in long hours just to scrape by? It's time for a...

How Creativity Rules the World shows that, despite contrary beliefs, creativity can be taught and learned by anyone. Creativity is an inexhaustible resource that is the key to thriving in the business world and beyond. This timeless guide promises to make the creative process of successful seven-figure artists and billion-dollar entrepreneurs—as well as Maria’s own—accessible and actionable for you to take the power of their ideas to the next level.

Through the lens of Rayburn Electric Cooperative's incredible journey, *Status Quo is Not Company Policy* offers a roadmap for leaders seeking to build resilient, adaptive organizations. Whether you're a seasoned executive or an aspiring entrepreneur, this book will inspire you to embrace change, empower your people, and lead with fearlessness.

You’ve got an offer ready to roll, and now you’re excited to get some traffic and start making sales. But now comes the hard part, TRAFFIC. The key to a good traffic strategy is to create a plan and then take consistent steps to make that plan happen. And with that in mind...... Here's Here's what's covered Inside: The Traffic Checklist: 20 Things to Do To Promote Any Offer How To Get Traffic From Multiple Sources From One Piece Of Content The Traffic Campaign Worksheet: Getting The Right People To See The Right Offer Optimization Outlines: Using Strategic Content For Search Clicks ...

As leaders or parents (or both), navigating difficult conversations is part of our job description. How do we keep calm and achieve a productive outcome, all while keeping our relationships intact? The secret is curiosity. It is the innovation-driving, emotion-calming skill that comes so naturally to us as kids but gets buried so easily beneath our busy, multitasking lifestyles as adults. The good news is that we just have to relearn what we already know!

Katrine Marçal’s Mother of Invention is a fascinating examination of business, technology, and innovation through a feminist lens. Marçal takes us on a tour of the global economy, arguing that gendered assumptions dictate which businesses get funding, how we value work, and how we trace human progress. And it carries a powerful message: If we upend our biases, we can unleash our full potential, tackling climate change and wielding technology to become more human, rather than less.

Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today - in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It’s the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. No longer. In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D.

In today’s evolving workforce, embracing Neurodiversity isn’t just about inclusion—it’s about unlocking innovation, creativity, and productivity. Participants will gain a deep understanding of neurodivergent conditions such as Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, and more, while discovering how to foster environments where all employees can thrive. The audiobook moves beyond traditional awareness to actionable solutions, offering insights into inclusive hiring, workplace adaptations, and strengths-based approaches that maximize the potential of neurodivergent talent.