Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture -- one that doesn't just pay lip service to the importance...
Author
Publisher
Pearson Business
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
The Truth About Creativity provides a practical and example-laden journey through creativity and its talent-releasing benefits for organisations, teams and individuals. Many of the truths are new perspectives on well-known creativity topics and will teach you how to: capture and use half-thoughts in the workplace; use alternative techniques to brainstorming; realise ideas must get complex before they get profound; succeed with a £10 budget; build...
Author
Publisher
Association for Talent Development
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (184 pages)
Language
English
Description
Grow Your Creativity Skills Creativity is a natural and renewable resource that exists in every person and helps us inspire, communicate, persevere, problem solve, rise to the occasion, and spark innovation. Creativity skills can be developed, nurtured, and cultivated. In the talent development context, TD professionals apply creativity to build personal capability and competitiveness, create talent opportunities, solve talent problems, and address...
Author
Publisher
Financial Times Prentice Hall
Pub. Date
2003, ©2002
Edition
International ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : illustrations, portraits
Language
English
Description
Companies don't innovate - people do! With today's markets changing at warp-speed, no existing business believes it has a future without a strong focus on innovation. Companies with bold leadership are attempting to create a culture in which innovation can flourish. To do so, they need radical innovators and business activists. This is what Lessons in Radical Innovation is about. There are many books on innovation, but this is the first to take the...
Author
Publisher
MIT
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
In industries where innovation is highly distributed, companies often attempt to gain market advantages by coordinating their product introductions with those of other companies in hopes of generating increased sales and customer satisfaction. Synchronization can take a number of forms, and the implementation costs vary widely. Moreover, keeping part of a company's operations synchronized with those of another can present substantial challenges involving...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity demonstrates how every corporation and organization can develop an innovative culture. The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to "think outside the box"--to brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes it works, but it's a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
With an original forensic approach, supported by current scientific research, insights and case studies, find out why the ability to think creatively is vital, how it has been lost and who is responsible before learning the 7 strategies for practical innovation solutions for personal challenges, team challenges and organisational imperatives.
Author
Publisher
Perigee Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a manifesto about ideas. Big ideas, small ideas, and outlandish ideas. Ideas that innovate, ideas that disrupt markets, and especially ideas that irritate. More than ideas, though, Mad Genius is about how ideas are born and the role they play in entrepreneurial thinking. This is a manifesto for managers who want to become leaders and leaders, who want to blow up mediocrity. Because whether you work in a traditional business, a nonprofit service...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive in a competitive world, yet chronically reject creative solutions and often embrace the familiar. Could it be that people love but also hate creative ideas? Could the "best practices" that organizations employ to manage innovation inadvertently kill innovation? Mueller provides a four-step process to help you disrupt your current mindset and recognize creative opportunity,...
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores how people and organizations are learning to be more creative in work and life, and reveals how to boost creative capacity, build creative confidence, and connect creativity with capitalism in a new form.
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 176 pages)
Language
English
Description
ARE YOU USING THE BEST CREATIVE THINKING TOOLS? Brainstorming is the go-to method for generating ideas and solutions in teams, but it's been proven to be ineffective for over 50 years. The Idea Generator gives you 15 simple, easy-to-use tools that can be used and reused for a variety of purposes to help you generate ideas quickly and focus on developing only the best ideas. Find a more effective, productive, quicker alternative to brainstorming new...
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase