Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Peter F. Drucker

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Peter Drucker’s classic book on innovation and entrepreneurship

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America’s new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service [...]

Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy: Judy Estrin

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Named one of the “Best Books on Innovation, 2008″ by BusinessWeek magazine
Does innovation come about by luck or hard work? Is it a flash of inspiration or the result of careful management? Are innovators born or taught? In Closing the Innovation Gap, Judith Estrin provides the answers to these and other questions critical [...]

Information Systems Management in Practice (5th Edition): Barbara C. McNurlin, Ralph H. Sprague

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This book deals with the management of information technology (IT) as it is being practiced in organizations today. It captures the material of current importance to information systems executives and organizes it around a framework that provides guidance to readers. In Information Systems Management in Practice, 5/E, a key element continues [...]

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology: Henry William Chesbrough

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From Publishers Weekly
The great corporate research departments at companies like Bell Labs, IBM and Xerox were once the motor of American industry. But that may be changing, according to this probing academic study of corporate technological innovation. Chesbrough, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business [...]

Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO: Gregory S. Smith

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“…should be required reading for all present or aspiring CIOs.” (eweek, December 25, 2006)

You have what it takes to be a CIO. Do you have a strategy for getting there? Now you do.
“Gregory Smith has written the definitive work [...]

Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0: Using New Social Technologies to Lead Business Transformation: Vince Casarez, Billy Cripe, Jean Sini, Philipp Weckerle

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Integrate Web 2.0 trends and technologies into the enterprise
Written by a team of experts from the Web 2.0 community and Oracle Corporation, this innovative guide provides a blueprint for leveraging the new culture of participation in an enterprise environment. Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0 offers proven strategies for the successful adoption of [...]

Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today’s Trends: Gerald Celente, Tom Milton

Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today’s Trends: Gerald Celente, Tom Milton
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From Library Journal
Celente, a consultant in the trendy alchemy of trend-tracking, weighs in here with a Megatrends- like forecasting system. He offers to turn his readers into trend-trackers themselves, who will then “profit” [...]

Why Decisions Fail: Paul C Nutt

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From Library Journal
Nutt (management, Ohio State Univ.) has spent 20 years collecting and studying more than 400 decisions made by upper-level management in corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations. Here, he selects 15 decisions that led to debacles and gives the background for each decision, what [...]

Marketing High Technology: William H. Davidow

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Theodore Levitt
Editor, “Harvard Business Review; ” author of “The Marketing Imagination”
“Marketing High Technology” is a rare and marvellous book — rare because it shows, in its own readable words, that while “great devices are invented in the laboratory, great products are invented in the Marketing [...]

Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy: Lee W. McKnight, Paul M. Vaaler, Raul L. Katz

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More than fifty years ago, Joseph Schumpeter stated that processes intrinsic to a capitalist society produce a “creative destruction,” whereby innovations destroy obsolete technologies, only to be assaulted in turn by newer and more efficient rivals. This book asks whether the current chaotic state of the telecommunications and related Internet industries [...]