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Design-Inspired Innovation
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Designing Interactions
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The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation
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Rainbows & Ratholes: Best Practices for Managing Successful Projects
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Lean Product and Process Development
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Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape
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Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization's Most Powerful Resource
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Catalyst Code: The Strategies behind the World's Most Dynamic Companies
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Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
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Managing Creative People: Lessons in Leadership for the Ideas Economy
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Triple C Model of Project Management: Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination
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Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities that Lead to Business Breakthroughs
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Customer Visits
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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Think, Play, Do: Technology, Innovation, and Organization
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Results without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You
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The Pursuit of New Product Development: The Business Development Process
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Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry
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The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
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The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
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Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm
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Strategy, Innovation, and Change: Challenges for Management
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Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal about the Minds of Consumers
In the next issue, we will try to be more balanced—or we may get even more creative!
Books reviewed in this issue:
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Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas
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The Medici Effect: What Elephants & Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation
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Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
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Hidden in Plain Sight
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Human Factors in Project Management
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The Fast Path to Corporate Growth: Leveraging Knowledge and Technologies to New Market Applications
Englund's favorable review mentions a number of points that will be of interest to JPIM's readers:
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the book emphasizes speed in development
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it stresses a team-based, phased development approach
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it establishes the need for clear specifications
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useful summaries and implementation guidelines are included throughout the text
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the issues treated are of major importance to new product managers
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Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market without Abandoning Your Roots
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Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want
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Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits
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Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-Based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You!
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Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations
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What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services
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New Product Launch: 10 Proven Strategies
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Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play
Englund's favorable review mentions several of the book's highlights:
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discussion of important guidelines for success,
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emphasis on the importance of team learning and building a sense of project ownership,
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recognition that "should we" questions sometimes are overlooked in favor of "can we" questions, perhaps to the detriment of truly assessing project relevance and
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importance of industry standards and how this links to rewards for dominant industrial survivors.
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
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Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions
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The Strongest Link: Forging a Profitable and Enduring Corporate Alliance
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Getting It Right the First Time: How Innovative Companies Anticipate Demand
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Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets