Author: G. C. O'Connor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470233160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Established companies are clamoring for breakthrough innovation, but are often hamstrung by the highly reliable, repeatable processes of their management systems. Based on years of research, Grabbing Lightning shows how twelve companies have tried to develop a capability for sustainable breakthrough innovation and outlines best practices for your organization. The authors show how the management system for innovation is different from the traditional one in that it allows?and even encourages?mistakes and failures in order to promote learning. Grabbing Lightning outlines the three building blocks of breakthrough innovation (BI) and shows what it takes to become an organization that values the BI management system.
Author: G. C. O'Connor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470233160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Book Description
Established companies are clamoring for breakthrough innovation, but are often hamstrung by the highly reliable, repeatable processes of their management systems. Based on years of research, Grabbing Lightning shows how twelve companies have tried to develop a capability for sustainable breakthrough innovation and outlines best practices for your organization. The authors show how the management system for innovation is different from the traditional one in that it allows?and even encourages?mistakes and failures in order to promote learning. Grabbing Lightning outlines the three building blocks of breakthrough innovation (BI) and shows what it takes to become an organization that values the BI management system.
Author: Jeffrey Michaels
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460245601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Mitch Thompson and John "Lightning" Williams are small town Wisconsin boys with dreams of making it to the Major Leagues. Two friends with the drive, passion and skills required to afford them a legitimate shot, they are fierce competitors cut from the same all-American cloth. Then there is DeeDee Schumacher. She becomes involved with Mitch in high school and over time her relationship with him becomes intrinsically connected to her dreams of enjoying life in the big leagues. When life throws Mitch a changeup, everything he has worked so hard to achieve slips from his grasp. For Mitch, John, and DeeDee the stakes, at that point, change in ways none of them could have predicted. Changeup is an off-speed tale of love, desire, sacrifice and betrayal that will leave you riveted till the final play at the plate.
Author: Remy Arteaga
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118559711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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A proven approach to achieving entrepreneurial success in new corporate ventures and startups Every day, business and corporate startups take action based on assumptions. Yet these assumptions are based largely on guesswork that leads to everything from costly mistakes to the failure of ventures. Fortunately, there are ways to overcome these issues and excel in your business endeavors—and this book will show you how. Engaging and informative, Pivot provides entrepreneurs with practical guidance for achieving success in corporate ventures as well as new startups. Based on more than fifteen years of academic research and many more years of experience in business and corporate startups, this book skillfully addresses topics ranging from resources and organizational uncertainties to the scope and scale of new business opportunities. Reveals how to successfully conceptualize new business opportunities, pivot as required to experiment with these opportunities, and accelerate to the marketplace Captures the capabilities needed to quickly build a business by understanding and systematically reducing uncertainties from market landscape and technology to talent and organizational positioning The digital component of this book includes a world-class strategic innovation methodology that is in demand from corporations worldwide Written with today's serious entrepreneur in mind, Pivot will provide you with the tools you'll need to get ahead of the competition and achieve consistent success.
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
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Author: Kathy Coatney
Publisher: Windtree Press
ISBN: 1947983202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Falling in Love for the First Time: From rivals to lovers. She has a career she loves and a man she’d die for—her life is complete until tragedy strikes without waning. Flight nurse Maggie Gregorio knows her husband has demons, but she’s never seen what happens when they’re unleashed. Never experienced the terror. The helplessness. Until she watches the man she loves more than life itself become a stranger. Symptom free for years, Daniel is married to his soulmate, running his own emergency medical service, and he’s able to provide safe refuge to his brother returning from deployment. Life is perfect... Until the first unprovoked flash of anger. PTSD—Daniel’s invisible enemy—resurfaces. A stranger even to himself, he transforms their home into an emotional warzone. And he has no idea how to stop this stranger he’s beco Now their very lives hang in the balance. Is their love strong enough to overcome the darkness that lies between them? Get your copy today because true love only comes once in a lifetime!
Author: Zhu XiaoSenDaShu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648972446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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During the Hongwu period, the Beastmen race, known as the "External Demons", came with unpredictable weapons. Thus, a war broke out between the armies of the Ming Dynasty and the outer demons. The folk martial artists and the martial artists of the martial arts world all formed their own sects to participate in the battle between the outer demons. After the Great Ming Royal Family witnessed the powerful strength of the external devil, they eventually bowed their heads to the external devil and gave up on the other sects. Signing unequal treaties with foreign devils without authorization...
Author: Darcy Burke
Publisher: Darcy Burke Publishing
ISBN: 1944576282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Verity Beaumont has suffered domineering men most of her life, first with her father and then with her husband. Free from both of them, she has finally found peace. Even meeting a kind and hard-working gentleman who just might be the perfect father her young son so desperately needs. But as she dares look to the future, her carefully ordered world is shattered when her dead husband returns. After six years away, Rufus Beaumont, Duke of Blackburn, returns to claim his place and protect his family. Only, the life he finds is not the life he left, and he must convince his wife that their marriage is worth fighting for, that he’s not the man he was. When the truth about what happened to him leaks out, he must prove that not everything about him, especially his love for her, is a lie.
Author: Long MenJi
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636544460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Three years ago, he once boasted that he was the best in the world, relying on his extraordinary family background to play with everything in his palms and trample on everything in his feet. Until he met with a calamity. Under such heavy pressure, he was forced to stay away from his home. Unexpectedly, he was framed, forced to jump into the sea, and died. Three years later, he had experienced the sea of blades and flames, defeated Ten Yama Minamiya, defeated the Five Directions Underworld Emperors, and climbed out of the Underworld ...
Author: Qu MaoDeLaoShu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647362490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Yang Feng did not know who his father was until his mother died of illness when he was ten. Shortly later, he was received by the Yang family, an old martial family, and by his father whom he never met.However, at sixteen, Yang Feng was chased and killed due to the fighting for power in his family. He did not expect he could be reborn and gained the inheritance of his ancestors that his meridians were transformed by powerful internal forces. After cultivating the Nine Yin and Nine Yang Divine Art, Yang Feng decided to challenge his fate. As an illegitimate child who lived at the underclass, how would he become a god and make himself a legend?☆About the Author☆The Mouse That Marries The Cat(娶猫的老鼠) is a prolific novelist. He has created 11 novels, including "Nine Heavens and Dragons", "Nine Yin And Nine Yang", "Chaotic Emperor", "Da u", "Big Superior", "Supreme Dragon Totem", "Nine Stars Lord" and so on. As an author with great creative desire, the cat of the cat The Mouse That Marries The Cat has shown excellent imagination and literary talent since childhood.
Author: Kyle West
Publisher: Ragnarok Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 495
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Lucian must do what no mage has ever done before: escape the Mad Moon. But between frayed mages, violent monsters, and the hostile environment, that may prove impossible. Wandering the brutal surface, every breath is a fight for survival. And things only get worse when Lucian receives visions from the so-called Sorceress-Queen of Psyche, whose Psionic Magic is second to none. Teaming up with a dedicated captain, a frayed mage, and a former Mage-Knight of Dara, Lucian sets off on a quest across Psyche. He needs a way off the moon for good. But the Sorceress-Queen has her own plans for him. And those plans will change everything...