Argues that the biggest challenge most businesses face is not the threat of takeovers or foreign competition, but change, and identifies ten forces of change and demonstrates how to convert them into profit and success

Managing the Future

Business & Money

Tucker, Robert B.

Management & Leadership

Putnam Adult

The definitive guide for today's most successful business leaders recounts great corporate triumphs and disasters over the last several decades and provides leaders with what it takes to keep one's business at the top of the competition. Reissue.

Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change for the Next Century

Berkley_Pub Group

Innovation isn't something you do after you get your work done. It's how you do your work. Organizations all over the world are shedding jobs in record numbers. Yet today, they are desperately in need of people with the abilities and skills to think ahead of the curve, delight customers, motivate colleagues, slash costs, and achieve unconventional results. In this practical road map to becoming irreplaceable, global innovation guru and bestselling author Robert B. Tucker reveals why honing your I-Skills (Innovation Skills) may be the smartest career move you'll make. Based on interviews with forty-three innovation-adept managers and individual contributors, Innovation Is Everybody's Business guides you in: <ul>
<li>Mastering the seven essential I-Skills you need to become indispensable</li> <li>Unleashing the “mindset, skillset, and toolset of the innovator” that enable you to anticipate and rise to the challenges your organization faces in a hypercompetitive era</li> <li>Developing your Personal Innovation Strategy to address the critical components of becoming irreplaceable</li> <li>Assaulting your assumptions at the personal, organizational, and industry levels</li> <li>Building tools for work-life balance and creating your own job satisfaction</li> </ul>
If you're ready to stop talking about innovation and start adding value today – in your job, department or organization – you're ready to read and benefit from the powerful message of Innovation is Everybody's Business.

Innovation is Everybody's Business: How to Make Yourself Indispensable in Today's Hypercompetitive World

Business Culture

wiley

The authors show how to anticipate where changes are leading and exploit those changes for profit and advantage, and present interviews with forty successful and innovative entrepreneurs

Winning the Innovation Game

Waitley, Denis E.

Fleming H. Revell Co.

Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change for the 90s

Nightingale-Conant Corp

How to give your customers a quality product and excellent service...and still make money.

Win the Value Revolution: How to Give Your Customers a Quality Product, Excellent Service, and Still Make Money

Career Press, Inc.

Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth. Greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Robert B. Tucker provides a practical method any business can use to identify opportunities and encourage innovations that capitalize on them.
Readers learn to create an environment that nurtures and rewards innovation; to ensure that creative ideas lead to breakthroughs; and to analyze and predict the future of their industry and their customers. Numerous case studies explore companies that have excelled at innovative thinking, detailing how their methods, procedures, and corporate cultures create sustained success.

Driving Growth Through Innovation

Finance

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

For many companies, mastering “innovation” is a daunting challenge yet an urgent necessity. In this groundbreaking book, corporate innovation guru Robert B. Tucker offers a practical, straightforward approach you can use to design and implement a systematic, growth-generating innovation process that is right for your company or business unit. You’ll enjoy the stories and gain valuable insights from Tucker’s study of firms that have launched successful innovation initiatives. And you will avoid their mistakes while benefiting from their best practices. You’ll learn how to: Cultivate a culture that makes innovation everybody’s responsibility and unleashes bottled-up potential for change “Mine” the future and seize new opportunities to deliver superior solutions to customers Establish an “idea management” system so good ideas don’t get lost—or show up in the hands of your competitors Fortify your firm’s “idea factory” to increase the speed to market of new products, services, process improvements, and business models Lead an innovation initiative and build buy-in with senior management This second edition has been completely revised and updated throughout. It includes a new Innovation Self-Assessment Instrument, so you can evaluate current culture and practices in an objective way, and a discussion of the newly emerging position of chief innovation officer.

Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures (Business)

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