Great Books on Leadership and Innovation

What are your favourite books on leadership and innovation?  Here is my recommended reading list.   It contains books by Clayton Christensen, Gary Hamel, Geoffrey Moore, Peter Drucker, Edward de Bono, Jim Collins and others.  When your friends and relatives ask what you want for Christmas refer them to this list.  And please send me your suggestions and [...]

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Create a Community

A great way to harness the collective creative power of your customers is to create an on-line community. Wikipedia created an innovative product – an online encyclopaedia – by garnering a community of contributors who built all the articles.  It is an open source creation.  All sorts of people post contributions and the community can organise, correct [...]

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Service Innovation – relocate

I flew to France recently with BA. I checked in online at home on the morning of the flight.  I printed my boarding pass at my printer and saved time at the airport.  Not all airlines offer this service and those that do gain a competitive advantage.  Anything that saves time, avoids queuing and makes [...]

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The Innovation Value Chain

The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will take place on Monday November 26th from 4 to 6.30 pm at the BQF offices in Westminster.  The topic is the innovation value chain – all the elements of generating ideas, evaluating ideas, prototyping innovations and then rolling out the successes.  In small groups we will [...]

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