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Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design School
Author Idris Mootee
A comprehensive playbook for applied design thinking in business and management, complete with concepts and toolkitsAs many companies have lost confidence in the traditional ways of running a business, design thinking has entered the mix. Design Thinking for Strateg....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Learn Small Business Startup in 7 Days
Author Heather Smith
The practical guide to learning the essentials of starting your own business in just one weekThinking about starting a business? Then Learn Small Business Startup in 7 Days is the book for you. Guiding you through the key aspects of getting a new business up and run....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Josh Seiden , Jeff Gothelf
The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today’s web-driven reality. In this insightful book, leading advocate Jeff Gothelf teaches you valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques from the ground up—how to rapidly experiment with design....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Author Eric Ries , Patrick Vlaskovits , Brant Cooper
You are not a Visionary... yet.The Lean Entrepreneur shows you how to become one.Most of us believe entrepreneurial visionaries are born, not made. Our media glorify business outliers like Bezos, Branson, Gates, and Jobs as heroes with X-ray vision who can look to t....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Adrie Reinders , Marion Freijsen
As an entrepreneur, youre not afraid to bend the rules and think outside the box. Youre not burdened with linear thinking, and thinking differently and trying new approaches enable you to solve problems.As serial entrepreneurs and cofounders of the largest social ne....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
Author Brad Feld
An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities"Startup communities" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Author Jodie Moule
Today, technology is used to shift, sway and change attitudes and behavior. This creates amazing opportunities and challenges for designers. If we want to create products and services that have the power to educate people so they may live better lives, or help to re....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Who Killed Creativity?: ...And How Do We Get It Back?
Author Jason Gallate , Gaia Grant , Andrew Grant
The essential guide to building a culture of creativity and innovation throughout an organizationYour help is needed to crack an unsolved crime: creative thinking is critical for future fulfillment and survival, and yet it is now declining at an alarming rate. In th....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Author Carolyn Chandler , Russ Unger
User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of the site owner and its users. There’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or desig....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Author Rex Hartson , Pardha S. Pyla
This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techn....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Run for Elected Office—and Win
Author Jana M. Kemp
The list of challenges facing society is endless. Numerous financial and social problems affect the world and individual countries. And they also affect states, counties, cities, and even school districts and neighborhood policy councils. It's time for fresh thinki....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Ferroelectric Dielectrics Integrated on Silicon
Author Emmanuel Defaÿ
This book describes up-to-date technology applied to high-K materials for More Than Moore applications, i.e. microsystems applied to microelectronics core technologies.After detailing the basic thermodynamic theory applied to high-K dielectrics thin films including ....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Rethinking Design and Interiors
Author Shashi Caan
The world is increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession address these developments with a new way of thinking. This book points the way for the design of interiors in this newly com....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success
Author Greg Nudelman
Best practices, practical advice, and design ideas for successful ecommerce searchA glaring gap has existed in the market for a resource that offers a comprehensive, actionable design patterns and design strategies for ecommerce search—but no longer. With this inval....
Release Date 2011/05 -
The Truth About Creating Effective Feedback Loops with Your Employees
Author William S. Kane
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Thriving in Change (9780132354622) by William S. Kane. Available in print and digital formats.A manager’s guide to getting the right information, giving the right feedback, and pushing the right buttons.Today, research....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Verification Techniques for System-Level Design
Author Mukul Prasad , Indradeep Ghosh , Masahiro Fujita
This book will explain how to verify SoC (Systems on Chip) logic designs using “formal and “semiformal verification techniques. The critical issue to be addressed is whether the functionality of the design is the one that the designers intended. Simulation h....
Release Date 2010/07 -
KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays
Author Joel Comm
For nearly fifteen years, Joel Comm has been generating revenue on the web via a number of avenues. In KaChing, he shares his five primary methods of making money online, combining traditional marketing with the new, offering detailed strategies and techniques that ....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Author Nathan Eckel
This Infoline offers an guide to enhancing working relationships between SMEs (subject matter experts) and instructional designers. Written from the view point of an experienced WLP instructional practitioner who has been through the ropes, this issue recommends WLP....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Tapping Into the Collective Wisdom of Community to Make Great Products
Author Jon Spector , Barry Libert
This Element is an excerpt from We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business (9780132244794) by Barry Libert and Jon Spector. Available in print and digital formats.How your customers can help you design better products and services th....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Creativity Unlimited: Thinking Inside the Box for Business Innovation
Author Micael Dahlen
Flying in the face of current thinking, this book suggests that we do not need to 'think outside the box' in our quest for creativity, rather we should rethink the way we look 'inside the box'. This idea will resonate only too well with those who have endeavour....
Release Date 2009/07 -
A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making
Author Carolyn Chandler , Russ Unger
“If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. " -- Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft User exper....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Author Marty Neumeier
Part manifesto, part handbook, THE DESIGNFUL COMPANY provides a lively overview of a growing trend in management—design thinking as a business competence. According to the author, traditional managers have relied on a two-step process to make decisions, which he cal....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Author M. Nora Klaver
Everyone hates asking for help. We're afraid of seeming weak. We think it's an admission of failure. We simply don't know how. So instead we continue to struggle on alone with both day-to-day burdens and serious crises. But, as Nora Klaver shows, we make thi....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author John H. Jack Zenger , Joseph R. Folkman
Praise for The Power of Feedback"Some books are worthy of being recommended simply because of their subject matter. . . . There is no greater force to improve the quality of human relationships or improve the way organizations function than to multiply the amount an....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Acquisition Essentials: A step-by-step guide to smarter deals
Author Peter Howson , Denzil Rankine
Do you really understand the business you are thinking of buying?Have you worked out the realistic synergies?What is the right price?How well prepared are you for the negotiations?What does all that lawyer speak mean?Have you developed a clear integration plan in ad....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Author Bill Treasurer
Visionaries and idealists are often dismissed as being, well, mad—stark-raving loonies. POSITIVELY M.A.D. turns such labels around—telling the stories of people who courageously pursued “crazy” ideas that challenged conventional thinking, re-imagined the way th....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips
Author Wayne Wolf , Ahmed Jerraya
Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple processor cores on a single chip. Designing a multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSOC) requires an understanding of the various design styles and techniques used in the multipro....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Author Richard Swegan , Debra Dinnocenzo
For millions of people, technology is making their lives harder, not easier. They're bombarded with so much information they can barely read it, let alone process it. They're tied to the office-through email, cell phones, pagers, voice mail and fax machines-2....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Should 360-degree Feedback Be Only Used For Developmental Purposes?
Author Cynthia D. McCauley , Maxine Dalton , David W. Bracken
Along with the growing use of 360-degree feedback in organizations today, there is much disagreement over how it should be employed: strictly to help the manager develop or also to help those who work with the manager decide such issues as pay and promotion? This p....
Release Date 1997/11