X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed: Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman

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The authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team… –TIME.com, August 23, 2007
The authors succeed in conveying the importance of wide-ranging exploration and teamwork as essential for innovation…. –The Financial Times, June 21, 2007
The book expands our thinking about teams…comfortable reading, broken [...]

Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities: Christian Terwiesch, Karl Ulrich

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Managers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a structured and process-driven approach this book demonstrates how to systematically identify exceptional opportunities for innovation.
An innovation tournament, just like its counterpart [...]

India’s Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking on the World: Nirmalya Kumar, Pradipta K. Mohapatra, Suj Chandrasekhar

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"But the significance of the coffee-house conversation, and many like it, is better understood after reading Nirmalya Kumar s more slender volume, India s Global Powerhouses"
"A particular value of the book lies in its concise case studies…"
"…highly readable book…" –Financial Times
As Kumar and company demonstrate, [...]

X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed: Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman

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“!comfortable reading!has some excellent advice for internal functioning of teams.” Globe & Mail 20070926
The authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team… –TIME.com, August 23, 2007
The authors succeed in conveying the importance of wide-ranging exploration and teamwork as essential for innovation…. –The [...]

Service Innovation: Organizational Responses to Technological Opportunities & Market Imperatives (Series on Technology Management): Joe Tidd, Frank M. Hull

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“… while this text is most valuable to the academician, it also should be of interest to those in service industries responsible for new product development … this book makes a worthwhile contribution to the academic literature as well as catering to the needs of business professionals.” [...]

Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm: Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Joel West

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`From large organisations seeking to develop open innovation as a capability through to universities and IP organisations seeking to act as catalysts for open innovation and then onto networks to enable the connections, this is a thorough review of most of the drivers on the topic. Linking [...]

X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed: Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman

Editorial Reviews
Review
The authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team… –TIME.com, August 23, 2007
The authors succeed in conveying the importance of wide-ranging exploration and teamwork as essential for innovation…. –The Financial Times, June 21, 2007
The book expands our thinking about teams…comfortable reading, broken down [...]