Research and development management Books

This book will teach you how to eliminate what customers hate and lead your market and customer satisfaction.Whether you’re selling to consumers or business-to-business (B2B), perfection in the marketplace does not exist. When making buying decisions,...

Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to...

Axiom Business Book Award Winner in Entrepreneurship Category  Learn to make creativity work for your career.Anyone, regardless of who you are or what you do, can cultivate the habits, actions, and attitudes that inspire creativity and innovation...

Foreword by Bill GatesFrom the authors of New York Times bestsellers, The Alliance and The Start-up of You, comes a smart and accessible must-have guide for budding entrepreneurs everywhere. Silicon Valley is renowned for its striking number of...

Twenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success. In this...

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay...

Business to Brand: Moving from Transaction to Transformation is the definitive guide for all small business owners who want to create a brand – not just a business. Anyone can start a business, but how do you develop it into a brand? In this practical...

It’s one thing to have a business idea, or even to start a creative business. It’s quite another to scale it sustainably without increasing your financial and emotional stress. For most small business owners, what starts as something energising quickly...

Relationships are the foundation of our long-term business success.The problem is a million things get in the way:"I don't have enough time." "I don't want to be a nag." "They are super busy right now." And the biggest one-"I'm just not good at this...

Two world-renowned experts on innovation and digital strategy explore how real-time data and AI will radically transform physical products - and the companies that make them.Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from...

Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.In the 2012 bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, learning professionals were introduced to the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and the Savvy Start-the key to a...

Stop Doing Hair. Start Building an Empire!Learn the secrets that the world's top stylists use to turn their barbershops, hair salons, nail and brow art studios into incredible wealth-building machines! You'll learn strategies for properly marketing,...

Grow Your Business will provide you with all the tools and blueprints you need to take your business from startup to scale-up.You've sown the seeds, it's time for the fruits of your labor to start producing! With Grow Your Business, Eric Butow and the...

The Center for Talent Innovation's new study, Mission Critical: Unlocking the Value of Veterans in the Workforce, reveals how companies can ensure their veteran talent thrives in the corporate world. Veterans represent a highly desirable talent pool when...

High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand.Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and...

Lead Your Business Through the Covid-19 RecessionThe second global downturn in a dozen years is upon us-but do lessons learned during the Great Recession still apply? What must you and your business do, now, to ensure you come out the other side intact?...

Blue Ocean Strategy, the #1 global bestseller, forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Rene Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation.Disruption dominates innovation theory...

A new classic, cited by leaders and media around the globe as a highly recommended read for anyone interested in innovation. In this bestselling book, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen build on what we know...

A playbook for growing your business no matter the circumstances."Weeds scale faster than any business. It's in their DNA."-Kathy Ireland, CEO, Kathy Ireland WorldwideHall-of-Fame-nominated marketer, bestselling author, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist...

Now in paperback, this bestseller proves more than ever, your success as a leader isn't just about beinggreat at business. You must be a great person, performing well in all domains of your life-including work,home, community, and your private...

Franchise expert and consultant Mark Siebert knows that the key to duplicating success is a solid system that's easy to follow. Taking a page from successful franchises, The Multiplier Model delivers a step-by-step process to creating a business with...

The only sales process you'll ever needIn Warrior Selling: The 12 Steps to Achieving a 100% Conversion Rate, sales guru Jason Forrest gives sales professionals the process, mindset, and persuasive language they need to find their inner sales warrior. The...

From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of...

Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just...

Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of experimentation often limits innovation. New technologies-including computer modeling...

Why do good teams fail? Very often, argue Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, it is because they are looking inward instead of outward. Based on years of research examining teams across many industries, Ancona and Bresman show that traditional team models...

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into...

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative...