Business Innovation & Creativity

Fearless, innovative, driven and daring. These are the qualities of a disruptor: a business that is willing to take risks to achieve incredible success. In The Disruptors, leading business journalist Sally Percy investigates the stories behind some of the world's most innovative businesses, which took unconventional and trailblazing approaches to overcome the competition and achieve success. Spotify, Nintendo, TikTok and...

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - Start Up/Scale Up Times have changed: you can launch a successful enterprise with your phone, sell through social media and tap into a whole world of opportunities. Unprepared to Entrepreneur is an honest guide to launching your own business, sharing real stories from real people who have tested, failed, and won at business. It...

In Think Bigger, Sheena S. Iyengar—an acclaimed author and expert in the science of choice—answers a timeless question with enormous implications for problems of all kinds across the world: "How can I get my best ideas?" Iyengar provides essential tools to spark creative thinking and help us make our most meaningful choices. She draws from recent advances in neuro- and...

Discover why not taking a risk is the biggest risk of all. In The Upside of Disruption: The Path To Leading and Thriving in the Unknown, renowned disruption thinker and best-selling author Terence Mauri delivers a compelling set of mindset shifts for today's unique leadership challenges. In the book, you'll find the future-ready insights and tools you need to lead...

Revitalise your team's creativity and overcome negativity with this inspiring guide to building unstoppable momentum for your transformative ideas. In today's high-stakes world of R&D and innovation, the difference between a groundbreaking idea and a stagnant project often rests on your team's approach to criticism and opposition. John Wolpert, a seasoned tech innovator, brings you The Two But Rule: Turn...

Increase customer attraction, acquisition and retention by using technology to create seamless, effective and joined-up marketing. It can be hard to know where to begin with the sheer number of platforms and solutions available to marketers today, as well as to use martech to its full potential. The Martech Handbook provides a clear and step-by-step framework for understanding and selecting...

Innovation requires more than a eureka moment. The vast majority of new product ideas never make it to market. Typically, this is because of the failure to address a real problem that a customer has experienced and is willing to pay to have solved. What do people and businesses need to know about the realities of innovating in order to...

If innovation is a race: Who wins? Who loses? Who gets eliminated? And how is it possible to stay ahead of the game? The Innovation Race takes readers on a lively global adventure to explore the current state of innovation. Along the way, best-selling authors Andrew and Gaia Grant search for clues on how to stay ahead in the race...

A practical guide to innovation strategies based on fact, not feeling. The Innovation Formula delivers strategies for building a culture where innovation can thrive, based on actual scientific research. Author Amantha Imber holds a PhD in organisational psychology and has been called upon by a multinational roster of forward-thinking companies—such as Google, Disney, LEGO, and Virgin—to improve innovation at all...

Overcome the obstacles in the way of women entrepreneurs and founders In The Future Built by Women, Startup Product Leader of Riveter and veteran keynote speaker, Brooke Markevicius, delivers a compelling guide to entrepreneurship for women. With a particular focus on the technology sector, the author shares her fascinating and relevant experiences as a company founder. She explains the four...

With focus and a clear mind, we can achieve almost anything. But we are constantly subjected to a deluge of distractions, from endless notification pings to anxiety and self-doubt. The Focus Fix explores how you can reset your mindset in order to reclaim your focus and achieve incredible results. In this fascinating book, leading creativity expert Chris Griffiths and journalist...

Experimentation is an essential part of innovation. It is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. We are constantly experimenting in our daily lives, and organisations place great value on testing new products, services, and strategies. Yet there is a shortage of actionable guidance on how to design and execute high-quality experiments for practical purposes. This...

A radical shift in perspective to transform your organisation to become more innovative The Design Thinking Playbook is an actionable guide to the future of business. By stepping back and questioning the current mindset, the faults of the status quo stand out in stark relief—and this guide gives you the tools and frameworks you need to kick off a digital...

Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G) showed how organisations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive growth. This updated and expanded companion guide is a stand-alone project workbook that provides a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G tool kit and process to a particular project, systematically explaining how to address the four key...

In this second edition of his bestselling book, author Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change and defines its importance to the corporation of the future. He describes a heretic as a visionary who creates change in large-scale companies, balancing the contrary truths they can’t deny against their loyalty to their organizations. The Age of...

Innovation principles to bring about meaningful and sustainable growth in your organisation Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, including Cirque du Soleil, early IBM mainframes, the Ford Model-T, and many more, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful groupings—the Ten Types of Innovation—that provided insight into innovation. The Ten Types of Innovation explores these...

Teaming to Innovate explores the essential link between teamwork and innovation. Just as assembly lines revolutionised car production, teaming is crucial to fostering innovation. This book gathers key insights on how to effectively create and nurture a culture of innovation. It addresses fundamental questions: How do you build a culture of innovation? What does this culture look like? How does...

Innovative organisations grow twice as fast, both in employment and sales, as those that fail to innovate. The social benefits of innovation are even greater. This first edition of Strategic Innovation Management is an exciting new addition to the established bestselling texts Managing Innovation and Innovation and Entrepreneurship, written by Joe Tidd and John Bessant. Aimed at students taking courses...

Hackathons—participatory gatherings in which people with various backgrounds and experiences come together to address a challenge or create something new in a limited period of time—have become an important part of today's technological, social, and business landscapes. They originated in IT and have since spread into other fields including medicine, law, biology, environment, education, and civic engagement. How and why...

Build and grow a company ready for the next generation of consumers In Seeding Innovation: The Path to Profit and Purpose in the 21st Century, veteran entrepreneur, award-winning author, global strategist, speaker, and Rice University Innovation and Entrepreneurship professor, Robyn O’Brien, delivers an insightful and data-driven roadmap to authenticity and smart leadership in the face of accelerating technological, environmental, and...

Immersive technologies have the power to radically transform your business. Discover how you can step into the future and gain competitive advantage with Reality Check. Virtual and augmented reality have existed for years, yet most of us rarely use them beyond gaming and tech demos. This book separates hype from reality to uncover how these groundbreaking technologies are transforming our...

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge Fully-updated Third Edition of the leading study resource for PDMA’s New Product Development Professional certification exam The newly revised and updated Third Edition of PDMA Body of Knowledge (BoK) provides a singular reference for anyone currently involved in, or planning a career in product management and product innovation. It describes a proven framework...

A carbon neutral future is possible - we have the technology to transform the global economy and guard against the worst effects of climate change. So how do we get to net zero? In Possible, entrepreneur and climate tech consultant Chris Goodall tackles sixteen challenges that we must overcome in making a just transition to carbon neutrality. He explores the...

As we face times of rapid social and technological change, the future may seem like a horizon approaching too quickly. In a few years, almost everything will be different: what we do, how we do it, and why we do it; how we produce and consume; how we conduct research; how we teach and learn; how we share information, communicate,...

Break free of the fast-paced, competitive work cycle. Redefine success and build your Momentum to pursue a satisfying and successful career. Leading psychologist and wellbeing expert Lee Chambers has found his success not by overworking within the competitive, fast-paced business world, but by taking an alternative path: one that prioritises wellbeing and embraces uncertainty. This book shows you how to...

National Bestseller! Rethink Your Mindset to Reshape the Future Every company needs leaders who can spot and seize opportunities at a moment’s notice. Every organisation needs leaders who can rally teams around new opportunities. Those who can see important, emerging trends foresee the coming disruption and harness those forces, translating them into actionable insights and motivation to fuel their company’s...

An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better navigate issues of innovation and inequality. From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of the world's most innovative places are highly unequal, with the benefits going to a small few. Rather than simply asking how we can create more high-tech cities and nations, Innovation for the Masses focuses on places...

An incisive and comprehensive new playbook for symbiotic partnerships In Innovation Alchemy: Building Strong Industry Engagement Partnerships for Impact and Economic Growth, leader of Global Partnerships and Alliances at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Lori Glover, delivers a compelling exploration of how to create mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations in and between industry, academia, and beyond. You'll learn...

Negotiation is one of the most challenging and intimidating elements of working life. But it doesn't have to be. Discover the essential skills and strategies you need with How to Negotiate. Whether you're discussing the terms of a new job or trying to secure a lucrative client, it's impossible to avoid negotiation at work. But many people don't have the...

The best business decisions and strategies are always data-driven. Improve your understanding of data and your digital literacy with How to Interpret Data. Data is a cornerstone of our decision-making, but the ability to effectively interpret data is challenging to master. This book demystifies the process of data interpretation, providing you with the tools and knowledge you need to develop...

In daylong hackathons, design thinking seems deceptively easy. On the surface, it involves a set of seemingly simple activities such as gathering data, identifying insights, generating ideas, prototyping, and experimentation. But practiced at a superficial level, even great design tools don't go deep enough to create the shifts in mindset and skillset that are required to achieve transformational impact. Going...

So many people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes much stress and anxiety, and we often prefer certain bad news to doubt. We turn to technology for certainty, only to find we become dependent, addicted—and more anxious than ever. But artists live with uncertainty: unsure how their work will develop, whether it will succeed or, if it does, why. Yet...

Digital detoxes don't work. Our wellbeing relies on finding a balance. Improve your focus and create healthy habits that will enrich your life with Digital Wellbeing. So much of our lives are now spent looking at screens, whether we're working on our laptop or checking social media on our phones. It's too easy to become overwhelmed by constant notifications and...

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: design thinking, or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, unpack the mysterious connection between design and growth, and teach managers in a straightforward way how to...

We are living in an experience-driven economy, where the customer's experience is paramount and even beloved brands risk losing market share due to a single negative customer experience. In our technology-led, omnichannel environment, one of the biggest risks for brands is a lack of consistency in their customer experience across digital, physical, and social channels. Data-Driven Customer Experience Transformation provides...

Discover new skills, expand your knowledge and build your confidence through this fascinating and accessible guide to working with AI. Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our everyday lives. But it remains an elusive, complex and intimidating technology that has hundreds of iterations and nuances. With Confident AI, build your confidence when working with AI by learning the...

We live in a challenging, complex, interconnected, and unpredictable world beset by a range of seemingly insoluble problems. But, says Michael Fullan—an internationally acclaimed authority on organisational change—we have an increasing understanding of how to tackle complex change. This involves developing a new kind of leader: one who recognises what is needed to bring about deep and lasting changes in...

Discover how to access your creative power to boost your success in business Success in business demands constant creativity. Generating fresh solutions to problems and the ability to invent new products or services for a changing market are part of the intellectual capital that gives a company its competitive edge. Business Innovation For Dummies gives you practical, easy-to-follow information for...

A timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation. From the Moon landing to the dawning of the atomic age, the decades prior to the 1970s were characterised by the routine invention of transformative technologies at breakneck speed. By comparison, ours is an age of stagnation. Median wage growth has slowed,...

Use this bestselling and practical guide to steer you through how to create exceptional customer experience for the modern B2B consumer. This new edition explores key topics such as AI, the role of IT in customer experience, and customer relationship management. B2B Customer Experience shows readers how to deliver the very best customer experience within the business-to-business industry. Intensely practical...

Transform any organisation with proven strategies and tools for innovation Bringing together a wealth of experience from 60+ distinguished global thought leaders, How to Create Innovation is a comprehensive guide to becoming a leader in innovation and an organisation that plays to win. It contains all of the working methods, separate business innovation models, and processes you need to transform...

Transform your organisation’s approach to AI with tested frameworks from global leaders AI and Innovation: How to Transform Your Business and Outpace the Competition with Generative AI is an expert blueprint on shaping and scaling the AI ecosystem of the future, revealing frameworks already tested and implemented at leading companies including Siemens, GE, and Microsoft. This book contains insight, use...

Ten signature Taylor Swift power moves that unlock unstoppable success for anyone in business and life. A guide to the 10 power moves that have built Taylor Swift's superstardom and empire, from a former Strategist at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy. Taylor Swift's genius is not limited to her singing and songcraft. As the founder of her own multi-billion...

In Basic AI, leading futurist David L. Shrier delves deep into the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, delivering fascinating insights and exploring the impact this powerful technology will have on our lives and world. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. In schools and universities, AI technology has forced a re-evaluation...

Learn what matters most in leading your team through change When change is constant and accelerating, our success depends on embracing its potential for growth. Global executive Steve Vamos reveals how powerhouse tech companies like Xero, Microsoft, Apple, and IBM thrive by enabling change, creativity, and innovation. Inside, you’ll find practical tools and a playbook that will help you manage...

Joanna Jensen is the founder of the British multi-award winning baby and child personal care brand, Childs Farm. Created in 2010 as a solution to her own daughter's sensitive and eczema-prone skin, every element of their range, from content to bottle, is thoughtfully designed to ensure they are best for skin and best for the planet. Focusing on sustainability and...

Every business needs data to survive. Build and implement a strategy to take advantage of data and generate critical insights with renowned data expert and one of the world's leading voices in business, Bernard Marr. Data Strategy is the key to building a robust approach to data that will give business leaders the competitive advantage they need to succeed in...

Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work. How can HR professionals understand the variety of opportunities AI has created for the HR function and how best to implement these in their organisation? This book provides the answers. From using natural language processing to ensure job adverts are free from bias and gendered language to implementing chatbots to enhance the...

In today's fast-paced world, finding the "space" for genuine creativity and collaboration can be challenging. Unlock Collective Genius is a practical guide designed to help you foster meaningful and productive creative sessions. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, or part of an organisation, this approach to "making space" will revolutionise your collaboration methods. Every encounter is enhanced by deliberately creating...

What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organisation to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new—something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking...

The essential guide to creating a successful organisation by making things easier, better, and more straightforward for your customers. Leadership Book of the Year 2023, as awarded by the Institute of Leadership Across all sectors, organisations’ fixation with functionality has meant that the 'human' elements of the customer’s experience have become neglected. Strict processes and automated procedures have created organisations...

Companies and organisations around the world are being confronted with alarming challenges—a global pandemic, market shocks, climate change, political instability. But in these unsettled times, organisational analyst Jane McConnell reveals that managers and executives have a secret weapon on their side: an overlooked group of employees that share the gig mindset—a freelancer-style knack for improvisation, adaptability and innovation that offers...

How businesses and other organisations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think. What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas...

The truth about work is: no one can do it alone. Even lone warriors need a team. Even in professions that revolve around individual superstars, collaboration is crucial. Yet most of us have never learned how to collaborate. How to form a team. How to work with people you don't like. How to motivate yourself and others. How to handle...

The quintessential handbook on how to co-design. In recent years, co-design has become something of a buzzword. While the term has gained in popularity, its true meaning and practical implementations are not widely understood. Existing resources, such as co-design toolkits, are freely available online but tend to be highly specialised and template-driven, limiting their usefulness for diverse contexts. The team...

In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to...

"A powerful and valuable book to live a life of greater freedom and impact", Robin Sharma, #1 worldwide bestselling author of The 5AM Club and The Everyday Hero Manifesto Reimagine your future, adjust your efforts, jump into action and work for just ten more years before doing what the hell you want! Building a business can be confusing. Entrepreneurs aren't...

We're in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organisations to observe and measure people's behaviour in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. New technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders. But this is no mere tech issue; it is quickly becoming the key operational...

Reverse Innovation introduces the idea of developing in emerging markets first—instead of scaling down rich world products—to unlock a world of opportunities for your business. Written by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and stemming from a pivotal article in Harvard Business Review, the book offers an important next step for companies looking...

How to match the right marketing approach to your product, by legendary business thinker Seth Godin. The shiny new marketing technique isn't necessarily the right one to use. According to bestselling author Seth Godin, these new-fangled tactics can be like the toppings at an ice cream parlour. If you start with ice cream, adding cherries and hot fudge and whipped...

In the past, your company could rely on a handful of resources close to its home markets to innovate new offerings. But today, knowledge and other resources critical to your innovation efforts lie outside your company's home territories—sometimes far outside. And this distance makes it harder than ever to obtain and integrate these resources, eating away at your competitive edge....

Leaders know that their job is to lead transformation to keep pace with technology and an ever-changing business environment. They also know that they are bound to fail doing so. But not because they can't solve a technology or strategy problem. They will fail because of the intractable human problem—fear, habits and routines, politics, the inability to see what doesn't...

"In an era where innovation is like oxygen, this is a riveting read" — Gopi Kallayil, Google It is a myth to consider innovation the domain of the special few inspired by 'eureka!' moments that always result in brilliant new products. In reality, anyone with the right tools, traits, and methods has the potential to innovate with impact, generating profits...

The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural economics. Written by the former Creative Director of OgilvyOne, Dave Birss (http://davebirss.com), this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas. It looks at how to frame the problem, how to push your thinking, how to sell the...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation (with featured article "The Discipline of Innovation," by Peter F. Drucker) provides essential insights on inspiring and executing innovation. To innovate profitably, you need more than just creativity. Do you have what it takes? If you read nothing else on this topic, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the...

Use design thinking for competitive advantage. If you read nothing else on design thinking, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you use design thinking to produce breakthrough innovations and transform your organisation. This book will inspire you to: Understand the transformative potential of design thinking...

A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future. Businesses, organisations and society at large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable...

Don't get left behind: learn how to consider long-term and environmental perspectives through strategic design. Get ready to make a difference! This book is your ultimate guide, packed with practical tools and strategies to create positive change. Whether working solo, in a small agency, or a big organisation, you'll learn how to embrace planetary perspectives and think long-term, even in...

Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating What Things Mean, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical shift in perspective that introduces a bold new way of competing. Design-driven innovations do not come from the...

Let everyone's voice be truly heard in the co-design process! Societal challenges are urgent and affect everyone, including politicians, citizens, government officials, business professionals, NGOs, designers, and researchers. Understanding and addressing these challenges is difficult because no single stakeholder or organisation is solely responsible. Everything is interconnected and constantly changing, resulting in challenges being neglected and stakeholders being unable or...

'A remarkable and important guide to effecting change in our individual lives, businesses, societies - and beyond' JONAH BERGER, bestselling author of Contagious How did movements like the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter take off when they did? How did Lord Kitchener recruit 2,000,000 volunteers at the start of World War I? Why did Twitter take hold while Google+...

Millennials love it. Amateur investors made millions out of it, and its founders became billionaires. But professional investors steered clear, regarding it as over-valued. In a few short years, the Australian startup Afterpay has put a rocket under consumer finance and birthed a global industry. It pioneered the four-payments model that allows customers to bypass credit cards for online shopping...

An enlightening insight into how creative and innovative leaders and their teams can find success, even in the most difficult circumstances. One of the biggest challenges of business leadership is recognising new opportunities and implementing them effectively. Too often, leaders fall back upon the status quo, relying upon tried and tested methods that may lead to good results but will...

What do great enterprises have in common? What sort of person starts them? A single idea can help you find the next big thing, but it takes time to trawl through hundreds of business books to find inspiration. With insightful commentaries on the landmark writings of old and new, 50 Business Classics presents the great entrepreneur stories, the best management...

Setting a new gold standard for service, hospitality, and living a life you love For over thirty-five years, Peter Merrett has been transforming luxury hotels, commercial properties, and their teams from status quo to best-in-class. He has revitalised the hearts of some of the world’s most recognised brands by showing that bringing wonder back to life, leadership, and service is...

Setting a new gold standard for service, hospitality, and living a life you love For over thirty-five years, Peter Merrett has been transforming luxury hotels, commercial properties, and their teams from status quo to best-in-class. He has revitalised the hearts of some of the world’s most recognised brands by showing that bringing wonder back to life, leadership, and service is...

#2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER, and a USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Andrew Liveris takes us on a masterclass in collaborative, forward-looking leadership." — Richard Branson, Founder, The Virgin Group In Leading Through Disruption, Andrew Liveris provides a new leadership paradigm for resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world. This book is a must-read guide for leaders in...

Drawing from over three decades of experience, former CEO of AT&T Business Anne Chow shares groundbreaking strategies for inclusive leadership to transform your workforce, workplace, and business. For generations, when we’ve needed to innovate and grow, we’ve been told to “think bigger”—it’s now time to embrace strategic leadership and Lead Bigger. Inclusion has been overly politicized and narrowly defined to...

How do I start a business on a budget? How do I find my first 100 customers and make my first £100k? How do I build a network and get my business noticed? Whether you want to transform a fledgling side-hustle into a full-time endeavour or simply have an idea that's keeping you up at night, this is the ultimate...

“Encouraging… Uplifting... Meeting apparently insurmountable goals requires thinking big… this will inspire.” —Publishers Weekly “Raj Shah has written a practical guide to making the world a better place. He knows what he’s talking about, because he’s done it himself. Anyone who wants to make a change in the world, or their own lives, will benefit from this book.” —Bill Gates,...