If We Can Put a Man on the Moon...Getting Big Things Done in Government

At a time of unprecedented challenges, this book, with its abundant examples and hands-on advice, unearths the hidden pitfalls that plague public projects, as well as examines the success factors of great achievements. LAUNCH

Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues and Your Organization

There is genius hidden in all of us. This book clearly shows how to unlock the genius in ourselves and our organizations by discovering and applying insight from the worlds of business, history, popular culture, nature, science and even science fiction. LAUNCH

Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint For Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates

Drawing on a wealth of stories and examples while including numerous frameworks, checklists, and probing questions, this book shows how companies of every stripe have overcome the barriers to successful, profitable innovation. LAUNCH

Innovation Power Plays: How the World’s Hottest Change Agents Reach the Top of Their Game

Offering an exploration of the way energetic managers drive innovation in their organizations, this book features strategies for reenergizing routines, customer service, business planning, and more from the world's top business champions. LAUNCH

The Other Side of Innovation: Solving The Execution Challenge

Drawing on examples from innovators as diverse as Allstate, BMW, Timberland, and Nucor, this practical and provocative book reveals how to execute an innovation initiative—whether a simple project or a grand, gutsy gamble. LAUNCH

Innovating In A Global Crisis: Riding The Whirlwind Of Recession

Drawing on the renowned THT cross-cultural database, as well as hilarious illustrations of innovation from hit comedy shows such as Fawlty Towers, this practical book is a blueprint for creating a culture of high-octane creativity and innovation. LAUNCH

Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success

Taking a unique personal look at the challenges innovators face in their journey, this book shows how innovation can be energized to conquer fatigue and help innovators reach success. LAUNCH

The Innovation Playbook: A Revolution in Business Excellence

A complete roadmap to a revolution in business excellence founded on innovation, this book shares the 56 ways in which innovations fail and includes an abundance of anecdotes and examples of successful and unsuccessful innovation. LAUNCH

Innovative Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Leading Sustainable Innovation in Your Organization

With a clear roadmap and practical tools, this book will help readers to make their cultures more supportive of innovation, identify and tap into the innovative intelligence in their workplace and develop leaders who can close the innovation gap for greater business success. LAUNCH

Learning to Innovate: Exploring Learning’s Critical Role in Fostering Innovation

Examining the importance of innovation and the ways learning influences it, this report includes a synopsis of interviews with learning leaders who have successfully fostered and sustained innovative practices at high performing companies. LAUNCH

Provoke: Why the Global Culture of Disruption is the Only Hope for Innovation

Revealing the discomfort with which some regard disruptive ideas, “innovation provocateur,” entrepreneur and strategist Linda Bernardi explains why embracing this discomfort to create a Culture of Disruption is the only way that business can innovate and revitalize the global economy. LAUNCH

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Presenting a blueprint for creating organizations that are fit for the future, this concise book will inspire you to rethink your business, your company and how you lead, and will help you discover the make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead. LAUNCH

The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It

With its wealth of illustrative case studies and vignettes from a range of companies around the globe, this engaging and potent playbook is a must-read for anyone seeking to turn themselves or their companies into true innovation powerhouses. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Dwayne Spradlin: The Case for Open Innovation

Most organizations innovate internally. Open innovation adds academia, industry, and innovation marketplaces to innovate better, faster, and more cost effectively. Predicting solar flares was improved from 50 to 85 percent, and from 4 to 8 hours in lead times. 4 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Amin Rajan: Innovation

Innovation includes both products and processes. Successful companies innovate faster than their competitors. Innovation varies by industry. Manufacturers tend to use incubators, where engineers are locked away in remote locations. Service industries tend to use teams that network in space and time to create "high conviction" ideas. Heavy manufacturing industries use market-based pressures to set targets for their employees. Companies like Toyota encourages all employees to post new ideas in an ideas bank. 2 minutes. LAUNCH

Consultant QuickTalks: Jeff Schwartz: The Intersection of Talent and Innovation

Although most companies say innovation is critical, only a few have formal programs and policies that look at the intersection of talent and innovation. Google and 3M set aside time and space for employees to pursue their own research or innovation agenda, but other companies make innovation an extracurricular activity. Other companiess recognize employees for participation in “innovation quests” and “innovation competitions.” 4 minutes. LAUNCH

QuickTalks: Jeff DeGraff: Connecting the Dots of Innovation

The Competing Values Framework connects the departments, locations, functions and projects in an organization to create sustainable growth. The framework is organized in four quadrants representing four types of innovation: breakthrough innovations, short-term innovations, incremental innovations, and human development. Leaders decide what kind of innovation they want, then follow the corresponding advice. The framework is described at http://www.competingvalues.com/ 6 minutes. LAUNCH

Consultant QuickTalks: Mark Johnson: The Ingredients for Innovation

Mark Johnson details what he considers the ingredients for innovation. Ingredients include sponsorship, people dedicated to new growth initiatives, service as well as product innovations, a common language for talking about innovation, a manageable portfolio of opportunities to sustain the core and create the new, the business rhythms associated with each, and rewards to sustain innovators over the long term. 4 minutes. LAUNCH

10 Rules for Strategic Innovators – From Idea to Execution

Vijay Govindarajan explains the challenges to strategic innovation, how to innovate and execute in a global environment, and why organizations must rewire their “organizational DNA” across staffing, structure, systems, and culture. 90 minutes. LAUNCH

Business Model Innovation: Going Beyond Product and Service Improvements

Most organizations limit their innovation focus to a product or a service. However, as Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen will describe, executives are now viewing business model innovation as more important than product or service innovation moving forward. Even a thriving business must recognize early on when it needs a fundamental change. In this presentation, Clay will provide a roadmap for your organization to begin to evaluate your opportunities for business model innovation to enable break-through, game-changing products and/or services. 90 minutes. LAUNCH