Author: Ioan James
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: innovate, driven
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 190616522X
ISBN-13: 9781906165222

Eminent mathematician Ioan James celebrates the extraordinary contribution made by Jewish people in mathematics and physics, from Norbert Wiener to Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. He tells the life stories of thirty-five men and women, born in the nineteenth century, who were at the forefront of research in their fields.

Author: Andrew Hargadon
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: innovate, companies, truth, surprising, breakthroughs
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-06-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1578519047
ISBN-13: 9781578519040

This book presents lessons from the famous ’Invention Factories’ past and present. Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thirty years before Thomas Edison famously ’turned night into day’? Or that Henry Ford’s revolutionary assembly line came from an unlikely blend of observations from Singer sewing machines, meatpacking, and Campbell’s Soup? In this fascinating study of innovation, engineer and social scientist Andrew Hargadon argues that our romantic notions about innovation as invention are actually undermining our ability to pur

Author: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and De
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: innovate, learning, learn, innovating
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2008-11-20
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 9264047972
ISBN-13: 9789264047976

OECD economies have experienced the transformation from their traditional industrial base to the knowledge era, in which learning and innovation are central. Yet, many of today’s schools have not caught up: they continue to operate as they did in the earlier decades of the 20 century. This book summarises and discusses key findings from the learning sciences, shedding light on the cognitive and social processes that can be used to redesign classrooms to make them highly effective learning environments. It explores concrete examples in OECD countries, from alternative schools to specific

Author: James K. Marstiller Jr.Jennifer Joerding Fickele
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: individuals, organizations, minds, rewiring, innovate, power
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2005-04-04
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 1420835106
ISBN-13: 9781420835106

THE POWER TO INNOVATE fills a void that exists among the available books on innovation. This book bypasses current fads and focuses on the application and measurement of innovation for organizational and personal change. Until now, no one has written a book that explains in plain English exactly why innovation occurs and how it can be delivered. Only through the combined experience and passion of a global business executive, who has successfully delivered true innovation, and the skill of an organization development professional, could this be accomplished - and the "pillars of innovation"

Author: Michael Sampson
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Keywords: drive, innovate, business, new, ways, collaborate, technologies, teamwork, using, microsoft, sharepoint, seamless
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0735625611
ISBN-13: 9780735625617

Take the lead—and deliver better results—by revolutionizing the way you and your colleagues communicate, collaborate, and coordinate everyday work. Dive in as the author, a collaboration expert, demonstrates how to inspire great teamwork using Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Discover the best practices that enable even far-flung teams to produce powerfully productive results—and apply them to your own projects! Learn how to: Follow a five-phase approach to managing teams and projects Synchronize your team’s vision, as well as their work Structure SharePoint sites to give people a pla

Authors:Michael J. Gelb, Sarah Miller Caldicott,
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: business, success, breakthrough, system, edison, five, innovate
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0452289823
ISBN-13: 9780452289826

Michael J. Gelb, author of the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, and Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, introduce a revolutionary new system for successful innovation. Bestselling author Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott introduce a carefully researched, easy-to-apply system of the five success secrets inspired by the creative methods of Thomas Alva Edison. The greatest innovator in American history, Edison set the stage for America’s global leadership in innovation by his focus on practical accomplishment. Now Gelb and Caldicott apply

Author: Gordon Cameron
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: impossible, technical, problems, systematically, solve, innovate, teach, yourself, triz, invent, trizics
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2010-11-09
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1456319892
ISBN-13: 9781456319892

TRIZ first emerged from the former Soviet Union in the 1990’s. TRIZ is the Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. TRIZ is a set of tools for directing creative thinking based upon the study of patents. Breakthrough thinking is not left to creative inspiration. Instead, new and innovative ideas that solve simple to highly complex technical problems or create new inventions can be systematically derived. TRIZICS is an organized process for the practical application of TRIZ, it incorporates TRIZ tools into a simple step-by-step framework that includes the logic of structur