Innovate your innovation process : 100 proven tools /
Shlomo Maital.
- New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2016.
- xvii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1: Stories That Inspire About People Who Aspire -- Introduction -- What we learn from Ivo Karlovic's 156 mph serve! -- Innovation lessons from the sports page: Go, Katie Ledecky! -- Meet John Osher: What we learn from SpinPop and SpinBrush -- Cool Idea? What else can you do with it? -- Starbucks and Howard Schultz: He's for real -- Anthony Ray Hinton: 28 Years on death row: What he teaches us all -- Larry Page: As innovator role model -- Marathon man: 365 marathons, 365 days! -- Jeanie Leung: Follow your passion! -- Too small to see? A Nobel for three who pioneered -- Alexandra Scott and the S80 million lemonade stand -- But that isn't art! Jeff Koons triumphs -- Ibaka: Mental toughness trumps genius -- Nicholas Negroponte: Where do ideas come from? -- From basic biological science to market success: How Bob Langer changes the world -- Gifts from the gifted: Richard Branson (Virgin) -- Amar Bose, 1929-2013 -- Becoming Jack Dorsey - and why you should -- Sara Blakely hated how her butt looks - and made a billion! -- Make meaning: When tragedy becomes triumph -- Benjamin Franklin, Innovator: Back of the bus, da Vinci! -- Shirley Temple: From Good Ship Lollipop! To Diplomacy -- Chapter 2: From Ideas to Action -- Introduction -- Five life lessons: Learning life forward -- How to be an evangelist: From Guy Kawasaki -- Reinventing the automobile: GM and Ford vs. Startup Guy -- Entrepreneur - Go work for government! Really! -- The Daniel Arm: Act! Don't Just Fret! -- Superheroes: Meet the 3D printer prosthetic hand -- What polite people say when they say bathroom: How gleaming bathrooms built an innovation -- Let the sunshine in! -- How to fix America's health care problems: Experiment! -- Jeff Bezos follows the money -- From idea to product: Crossing the chasm -- Entrepreneurial energy: It's everywhere - Sizwe (S. Africa) and Atef (Jordan/Syria) -- Failure University: The diploma we all need -- Chapter 3: Break the Rules - Intelligently -- Introduction -- Internet of Things: It's not hype -- What you are more than just one person -- What innovators learn from the Google Glass failure -- Patents are like love: The more you give, the more you get -- Targeted drug delivery: Promising new assault on cancer -- How to build great ideas on key facts -- Why totally useless information is VERY useful -- Innovation - "When", not just "What" - Daybreaker parties -- Innovation as grave robbing -- The Einstein Principle in Innovation: Make time variable! -- If you can subtract - you can innovate -- Creativity is breaking the rules - two examples -- Chapter 4: Innovation is a Team Sport -- Introduction -- Pile-on meetings: How to fight 'stovepipes' -- Creativity in the social network age -- Big disrupters -- Strategic coffee machines - creativity through chance conversations -- It takes two: creativity in pairs -- It takes two to (create the) tango -- The key to innovation in big companies: work together -- How to get a child to intensive care fast? -- Check out Formula 1 racing -- Innovation is a team sport -- Teamwork? Or Groupthink? -- Chapter 5: Innovate Everywhere, Everything, Everyone -- Introduction -- The new pricing model: Name Your Price. Really. -- Euro Disney pricing: Pure Mickey Mouse! -- Memo to all professors: Our monopoly has ended forever -- Oscars: How to innovate (movies) -- McDonalds: The price of falling asleep -- Business model innovation: Reinventing the supermarket -- Why I live in The House by the Side of the Road -- Panera - innovation for people who have no money -- Local empathy: Toilet innovation in Japan and Kenya - incremental excremental innovation -- Twinkies are back! -- 'Jugaad' in India or why to bet on India in the great innovation race -- The powerful vision of those who cannot see, the sharp ears of those who cannot hear: How Adina Tal changed the world -- Light is Heard in Zig Zag -- Vive La Charrette! Get you innovation process "on the wagon" -- Innovator: Don't just complain - do something! A man, a van, a plan -- Chapter 6: Restoring Lost Innovativeness -- Introduction -- The 'adjacent possible": Why one step sideways can become a giant leap forward -- Lessons from Stephen Colbert - you can't discover the product until you're making it -- Freedom? Or security? Do we have to choose? -- Everyone deserves a second chance - let's try to help -- How Vic Firth drummed up some business -- Innovators - are you comfortable with being uncomfortable? Are your kids? -- Chaos is the new world order -- Feeling empathy for others: It's not enough! -- Messy desk? A sign of creativity -- A new miracle drug called "give thanks" -- Find meaning - even kids seek it -- Does your doctor listen to you? But, really listen? -- How competing for grants kills science - and scientists' motivation -- How must entrepreneurs treat failure? -- A practical solution -- Technology comes last! -- Think BIG -- The three intersecting circles of innovation -- Making "Eureka!" happen: On inviting "ah-hah" insights! -- Why dreams make you happy...until they come true -- Are your windows open? Are you sure? -- A thousand "True Fans": YOU can do it! -- Bipolar issues: Is self-confidence or humility a better motivator? -- The greatest innovation of all - your life, or - we can ALL be Bill Gates -- Humble masterpieces: MandM's -- Chapter 7: Learning Creativity from Our Kids -- Introduction -- How teachers ruin inquiring minds - and why they must stop -- Internet of everything -- Touchstone School - magical moments -- Kids of all ages (up to 100) need to play! -- KidZania: Where kids finds reality, not fantasy -- WIX: Playfulness and innovation -- Can you come out and play? Will you? -- The three biggest ideas in history - and the biggest of all -- Destroying our most precious resource - and it's not air or water -- Falling creativity: Not just kids -- Kids' creativity is declining: Is "No Child Left Behind" responsible? -- Kids continue to amaze" Ethiopian children master tablets -- Kids are more creative than ever - some adults, less! -- Are we crippling our kids' creativity? -- The dilemma and a solution -- Chapter 8: Innovating for Those with Less -- Introduction -- Rethinking innovation: Start at the bottom, not the top -- Two millio women suffer - who cares? The terrible shame of fistula -- How strong minds raced so weak legs could walk -- Value from old truck tarpaulins -- Johnny Cash: How his career began in Folsom Prison -- Reverse innovation revisited: What the poor teach the rich -- John's Phone: Innovation by subtraction -- Rwanda: Literally, back from the dead -- How Sharath Jeevan is making a difference to kids in India -- Green energy for the poor: The Kenya model -- Bernie Sanders is taking the money out of politics -- Kids' scores rise when they care about other kids and teachers -- Living on 26 rupees a day: Lessons learned -- Summing it all up: How our brains innovate -- Epilog: Your PIM - Personal Innovation Machine
Through a series of short stories and brief case studies about great innovators, this book will help managers and entrepreneurs rethink their innovation processes, using the tools outlined in the book. The eight chapters include narratives on: From Ideas to Action; Breaking the Rules; Learning Creativity from our Kids; Innovation as a Team Sport; and Innovating for Those with Less. The basic idea is that the best way to become a world-class innovator is to learn from other world-class innovators and to study what they did and how they did it.