CITATION

Crainer, Stuart and Dearlove, Des. Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level. US: McGraw-Hill, 2013.

Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level

Published:  October 2013

eISBN: 9780071827829 007182782X | ISBN: 9780071827812

Book description:

The World's Leading Business Minds on Today's Most Critical Challenges

Featuring VJ Govindarajan, Linda Hill, Clay Christensen, and many more

"Thinkers50 is now established as the definitive ranking of global thought leaders." -- Professor Costas Markides, London Business School

Innovation used to separate extraordinary companies from average companies. Today, it's making the difference between those that succeed and those that outright fail. Business leaders have no choice: innovate or die.

Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, creators of Thinkers50, bring you the very latest thinking on the subject of business innovation. Citing the ideas and insights of the world's leading thinkers and business practitioners, the authors present a guide to business innovation that will put you ahead of the competition. Chapters include:

  • Disruptive Innovation

  • Co-creating the Future

  • Opening Up Innovation

  • Innovating Management

  • Leading Innovation

  • Where Innovation Meets Strategy

  • Where Innovation Meets Society

Each book in the Thinkers50 series provides authoritative explanations of the concepts, ideas, and practices that are making a difference today, including specific examples and cases drawn from the original sources. "Innovation is where the worlds of business and creativity meet to create new value," Crainer and Dearlove write.

Today's customers are more demanding than ever. They want the best, coolest, most advanced product available. If you don't deliver it, your competitor will. Read Thinkers50 Innovation and learn how to apply the best ideas from the brightest minds in business innovation.

STUART CRAINER and DES DEARLOVE are the creators of Thinkers50--the world's most influential global ranking of management thought leaders. Management Today describes them as "market makers par excellence." Their written work has appeared in The (London) Times, Financial Times, The Times of India, Newsweek Japan, and many other publications.

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