San Antonio College Library

A collection of articles and essays about today's leading companies and business leaders shares business strategies for today's managers, covering such topics as how to bring together two corporate cultures, retain a top workforce, and utilize new technologies effectively.

"Interpreting the work of such groundbreaking scientists as Charles Darwin, Stuart Kauffmann, Murray Gell-Mann, and John Holland, Dr. Fulmer illustrates that the business world, like the world of biology, is a complex system. For your company to succeed, he argues, it must become adaptive in the biological sense." "Through examples from numerous innovators - including small entrepreneurial start-ups as well as giants such as Cisco, Microsoft, and...

Argues that most business projects fail because their success depends on unanticipated external innovations while revealing the logic of "innovation ecosystems" that can be established to dramatically improve odds of success.

"There's a big difference between an idea and an innovation. It's called cash. In Payback, authors Jim Andrew and Hal Sirkin argue that companies must sharpen their focus on achieving payback - in the form of cash and other assets that ultimately generate cash - to fund growth, stay competitive, and successfully address the biggest challenge facing most companies today : increasing the returns from their innovation spending."--Jacket.

"Creativity and innovation are the keys to competitive advantage, and yet many organizations view inspiration as an elusive, unmanageable phenomenon. In fact, proven strategies for fostering and managing creativity do exist - the Harvard Business Review has published some of the best thinking on how to organize for innovation. This collection highlights leading ideas for incorporating the power of creativity into your strategic outlook."--Jacket.

"The Map of Innovation is O'Connor's step-by-step approach to devising lucrative new products and services and bringing them to market, through a process that has proven itself time and again in many different industries." "Too often, people trying to innovate focus on things that don't matter or waste their time trying to find answers to questions that can't be answered. O'Connor shows why the map of innovation centers on getting right the five make-or-break...

To succeed in the global marketplace for new goods and services, American corporations must learn how to innovate and develop new businesses better and faster than their competition. To do this requires a special culture - one that is much different from the traditional culture of American business. Oden's unique book looks, for the first time, at the relationships among these elements - innovation, intrapreneurship, and corporate culture - and points...

"How the world's leading companies model, prototype, and simulate to innovate"--Jacket.

"In Coolhunting you will discover the practical tools you need to find the hottest trends - and the people who set them. The art of coolhunting involves zeroing in on the fresh idea that will be the genesis of a hot new trend. It also involves finding the people responsible for the idea - the trendsetters who will cause others to jump on board. By recognizing who the trendsetters are, you can actually anticipate the next big trend before it takes...

"The MIT Sloan School of Management gathered international leaders in business and management, MIT faculty, students, and alumni to address the basic principles that should guide business and management. This book presents the papers prepared by student-faculty teams, speeches by business and world leaders, and summaries of the discussions from this special convocation, taken together, they offer a guide to the future of management based on the hallmarks...