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    The innovation paradox : why good businesses kill breakthroughs and how they can change (2014)
    San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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    ISBN: 9781609945541 , 1609945549 , 9781609945558 , 1609945557 , 9781609945534
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: BK business book
    DDC: 658.4/063
    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior ; Organizational change ; Technological innovations / Management ; Führung ; Wirtschaft ; Organizational change ; Technological innovations Management
    Note: "It's a paradox: as big companies get better at achieving operational excellence, actual breakthroughs seem to decrease. It's the scrappy little startups, with comparatively tiny budgets, that continue to be founts of innovation. Why is it that as industry leaders get better at what they do, they get worse at innovation? By conducting deep research within companies as diverse as Apple, Google, Pfizer, General Motors, Nike, and Sony, the authors have found the answer: the very pursuit of operational excellence--that is, making one's existing business as efficient as it can be--blinds managers to the kinds of disruptive business model changes vital for innovation. These changes could threaten all that hard work. It's why Nokia famously killed its smart phone--the company was too invested in "dumb phones." Nothing less than a complete redesign and rethinking of the corporation--down to how accountants capture innovation costs and overhead--is necessary to get companies moving again. The authors' new model, "the startup corporation," marries the strengths of corporate scale to the nimbleness of entrepreneurs. For a model of the new startup corporation, the authors return again and again to Apple, which doesn't have the usual corporate structure and accounting systems. Not every company can be an Apple, but all companies can learn to break the bonds of operational thinking if they'll take the authors' lessons to heart"-- , "From the bestselling authors of Making Innovation Work (30,000 copies sold and translated into ten languages) comes a book that questions everything about how organizations innovate. Key takeaway: classical business management and corporate structures by their very nature will kill, not create, breakthroughs. The authors describe a new kind of organization--the startup corporation--that will make established companies as innovative as startups"-- , Machine generated contents note: 1. Managing Radical Innovation in Established Organizations -- 2. The Innovation Paradox -- 3. The Benefits and Limits of the Business Unit -- 4. Innovative Cultures -- 5. Leading for Radical Innovation -- 6. Hard Foundations: Strategy, Incentives, and Management Systems -- 7. The Startup Model -- 8. Startup Corporation: The New Kid on the Block -- 9. Designing Corporate Startups: Front End Designs -- 10. Designing Corporate Startups: Back End Designs -- 11. Designing the Startup Corporation -- 12. Wrapping up , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Measuring and improving social impacts : a guide for nonprofits, companies, and impact investors (2014)
    San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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    ISBN: 9781609949792 , 160994979X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 v.) , ill.
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Investments ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Social responsibility of business ; Evaluation ; Nonprofit organizations ; Evaluation ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: The world is beset with enormous problems. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to solve them. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it's working? Too many people assume that good intentions will result in meaningful actions and leave it at that. But thanks to Marc Epstein and Kristi Yuthas, social impact can now be evaluated with the same kind of precision achieved for any other organizational function. Based on years of research and analysis of field studies from around the globe, Epstein and Yuthas offer a five-step process that will help you gain clarity about the impacts that matter most to you and will provide you with methods to measure and improve them. They outline a systematic approach to deciding what resources you should invest, what problem you should address, and which activities and organizations you should support. Once you've made those decisions, you can use their tools, frameworks, and metrics to define exactly what success looks like, even for goals like reducing global warming or poverty that are extremely difficult to measure. Then they show you how to use that data to further develop and increase your social impact. Epstein and Yuthas personally interviewed leaders at over sixty different organizations for this book and include examples from nearly a hundred more. This is unquestionably the most complete, practical, and thoroughly researched guide to taking a rigorous, data-driven approach to expanding the good you do in the world.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781609949778/?ar
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    Pharmacy on a bicycle : innovative solutions to global health and poverty (2013)
    San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler
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    ISBN: 9781609947910 , 1609947916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 v.) , ill.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: A BK currents book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Pharmaceutical policy ; Developing countries ; Drugs ; Developing countries ; Medical care ; Developing countries ; World health ; Electronic books ; Health ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $1.50. Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can't get it to them. They are dying not because we can't solve a medical problem but because we can't solve a logistics problem. In this profoundly important book, Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein lay out a solution: a new kind of bottom-up health care that is delivered at the source. We need microclinics, micropharmacies, and microentrepreneurs located in the remote, hard-to-reach communities they serve. By building a new model that "scales down" to train and incentivize all kinds of health-care providers in their own villages and towns, we can create an army of on-site professionals who can prevent tragedy at a fraction of the cost of top-down bureaucratic programs. Bing and Epstein have seen the model work, and they provide example after example of the extraordinary results it has achieved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is a book about taking health care the last mile-sometimes literally-to prevent widespread, unnecessary, and easily avoided death and suffering. Pharmacy on a Bicycle shows how the same forces of innovation and entrepreneurship that work in first-world business cultures can be unleashed to save the lives of millions.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781609947897/?ar
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    Making sustainability work : best practices in managing and measuring corporate social, environmental, and economic impacts (2014)
    San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
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    ISBN: 9781609949952 , 1609949951
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 v.) , ill.
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Social responsibility of business ; Corporations ; Environmental aspects ; Industries ; Environmental aspects ; Electronic books ; Leadership ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Most companies today have some commitment to corporate social responsibility, but implementing these initiatives can be particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is still a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts. And whereas with most other organizational initiatives the sole objective is improved financial performance, sustainability broadens the focus to include social and environmental performance, which is much more difficult to measure. Now updated throughout with new examples and new research, this is a complete guide to implementing and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives. It draws on Marc Epstein's and new coauthor Adriana Rejc Buhovac's solid academic foundation and extensive consulting work and includes best practices from dozens of companies in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa. This is the ultimate how-to guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually putting sustainability ideas into practice and making sure they accomplish their goals.
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    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781609949938/?ar
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    Making sustainability work : best practices in managing and measuring corporate social, environmental and economic impacts (2008)
    Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf Pub. ;
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (288 p.) , ill.
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Social responsibility of business ; Corporations ; Environmental aspects ; Industries ; Environmental aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: The best practices in corporate social responsibility (CSR) are no longer the exclusive domain of companies like Ben & Jerry's or the Body Shop; now even companies like GE and Wal-Mart are making significant financial and organizational commitments to social and environmental issues. But senior executives are realizing that implementing sustainability is particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts of implementation and virtually nothing on how to measure the results. In Making Sustainability Work, Marc Epstein builds on his influential and highly respected previous work to produce the ultimate how-to guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually putting sustainability ideas into practice.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-281) and index. - Description based on print version record
    URL: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781605093826/?ar
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    Making innovation work : how to manage it, measure it, and profit from it (2013)
    Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press
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    ISBN: 9780133093360 , 0133093360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (1 v.) , ill.
    Edition: Updated ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Organizational change ; Management ; Technological innovations ; Management ; Industrial management ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Profitable innovation doesn't just happen. It must be managed, measured, and properly executed, and few companies know how to accomplish this effectively. Making Innovation Work presents a formal innovation process proven to work at HP, Microsoft and Toyota, to help ordinary managers drive top and bottom line growth from innovation. The authors have drawn on their unsurpassed innovation consulting experience -- as well as the most thorough review of innovation research ever performed. They'll show what works, what doesn't, and how to use management tools to dramatically increase the payoff from innovation investments. Learn how to define the right strategy for effective innovation; how to structure an organization to innovate best; how to implement management systems to assess ongoing innovation; how to incentivize teams to deliver, and much more. This book offers the first authoritative guide to using metrics at every step of the innovation process -- from idea creation and selection through prototyping and commercialization. This updated edition refreshes the examples used throughout the book and features a new introduction that gives currency to the principles covered throughout.
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