Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose - Hardcover

Kelley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470621672 ISBN 13: 9780470621677

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

Essential strategies to transform your organization and boost your profits - Want to recapture your organization's original innovative spirit? Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire helps you remove the obstacles that have crippled the innovation superpowers that made your organization successful in the first place. Helps you identify the blockages hindering innovation within your organization Reveals the fundamental changes that will help your business rebuild its hidden or lost innovation capabilities Explores leading innovation theories you can apply right away-without expensive consultants Get the strategies you need to remove innovation barriers, increase profits-and change the way you do business.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Every successful organization began as a nimble, innovative start-up with the ability to course-correct and quickly adapt to the needs of its customers. But along the way, success and growth may have caused changes in the structure, the culture, and sometimes even the vision of the business.

Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire equips your organization to identify and remove those barriers to innovation that have prevented it from achieving sustainable growth and change. Braden Kelley shares the profound insight, simplicity, and uncommon sense that have helped countless organizations get back their innovative spirit and leverage the collective wisdom and passion of their employees.

Filled with case studies and proven guidance, this book evolves leading innovation theories into coherent, practical applications that you can implement in reinvigorating your own organization―without expensive consultants. You'll find world-class guidance on overcoming your business's blockages in the areas of:

• Vision
• Strategy
• Goals
• Insight
• Idea generation and evaluation
• Idea commercialization
• Organizational psychology
• Information and structure
• Sustainability

In today's fast-paced marketplace, those unwilling to change are often left behind.??With an interactive Web site including health checks and an innovation audit, as well as video and text interviews, Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire provides you with the tools you need to reframe your business's innovation strategy and goals and successfully supply the marketplace with revolutionary solutions to your customers' issues. Knock down your barriers to innovation. Create a healthy cooperation with the need for operational excellence. Let your corporate brilliance shine. Get the fire started with Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire.

About the Author:

Braden Kelley (@innovate on Twitter) is a popular Innovation and Change Keynote Speaker and workshop leader, and has been advising companies on how to increase their revenue and cut their costs since 1996. He has maximized profits for companies while living and working in the UK, Germany, and the United States. Braden earned his MBA from London Business School.

Braden works with global clients to create more success in their innovation and change programs through the appropriate mix of training and advisory services. Braden specializes in the creation of a strong, sustainable organizational capability for continuous change and innovation.

His next book for Palgrave Macmillan (February 2016) will focus on the best practices and next practices and next practices of organizational change, and will introduce his new collaborative, visual Change Planning Toolkit™ that is designed to get everyone literally all on the same page for change.

Braden has worked with a variety of industries including: financial services, healthcare, marketing, technology, retail, online services, mobile telecommunications, and more.

Braden is also a co-founder of the popular InnovationExcellence.com. He is passionate about innovation and digital transformation, and has been commissioned by companies (including Innocentive) to write white papers and case studies, but has also written 650+ articles for publications including The Washington Post, Wired, The Atlantic, iSix Sigma magazine, Texas Enterprise, American Express OPEN Forum, and more.

His international clients include Microsoft, Expedia, AB Inbev, BASF, Misys, HomeAway.com, Roche, Millicom International Cellular, Wunderman, the U.S. Navy and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470621672
• ISBN 13: 9780470621677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208