Business Innovation & Creativity

Driving Innovation in a Tough Economy - DVD

After reinventing itself years ago from a software-for-PCs producer to a software-for-the-enterprise producer, Microsoft is now in the midst of a multi-year initiative to transform itself again—to a software-plus-internet-services provider Learn more

Collaborative Entrepreneurship: Creating Wealth Through Networked Firms - DVD

Since many existing business practices inhibit innovation, new organizational designs and managerial approaches must emerge to meet today's new challenges. Learn more

Decisions, Decisions - DVD

Produced - 1982

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Two clear stages in the decision process are revealed in this humorous program: making the decision and making it happen. Learn more

How Do You Put A Giraffe Into A Refrigerator? - DVD

Meeting Opener

If meetings and training sessions are an essential part of your organization, you know the importance of getting off to a good start. Learn more

Managing Innovation - DVD

iRobot operated without venture capital and on a break-even basis for eight years, developing a number of products for industry and the military without commercial success. Learn more

Creating the Future- DVD

The biggest risk today is irrelevancy. Barriers that protected incumbents in the past have broken down, and competitive positions can be quickly overturned. If you miss a trend, there may be no catching up. Learn more

Finding Untapped Growth in Existing Markets- DVD

Managers are under constant pressure to grow, but it is often difficult to find new avenues of growth within an existing line of business. Learn more

Red Queen Competition: A Dynamic View of Strategy- DVD

"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." So said the Red Queen, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. The neo-classical model of business strategy is built on a theory of market equilibrium. Learn more

Accelerate Your Business - DVD

In this content-loaded seminar, Dan Coughlin guides you through 19 specific action steps covering a variety of important topics, including leadership, innovation, branding, and sales. You'll learn how to unleash more creativity, connect through listening, give better feedback, increase the perceived value of your offering, influence others even more effectively, and much more. Learn more

Brainstorming - eBook Download

The Dynamic New Way to Create Successful Ideas and immediately begin benefiting from its lessons, even if it's 3 o'clock in the morning. Learn more

Creativity / Innovation Effectiveness Facilitator's Guide

This Facilitators Guide enables a trainer to lead a half-day workshop administering, scoring, and interpreting the Creativity/Innovation Effectiveness Profile. Includes templates for development planning and 84 sets of coaching tips. Each set of coaching tips is a behavioral prescription that can be provided to respondents where they score low to improve those creative qualities. Learn more

Creativity and Innovation Effectiveness Profile- 5 Pack

This 84 item, self scoring assessment provides a structured process for assessing individual creativity with the objective of improving business skills like pattern breaking, developing novel solutions or methods, creative perseverence, willingness to experiment, and nourishing new ideas. --All critical skills to winning competitive advantage in any marketplace. Learn more

What Steve Jobs Taught Us - eBook

However all would agree that Steve Jobs was a committed and driven individual who only sought to seek the best always and expected the same from those around him. Learn more

Getting from Little Bets to Big Breakthroughs DVD

Release - 2011

Much like the standup comedian who tests and refines jokes in small clubs before rolling them out to a television audience, most successful entrepreneurs don’t begin with brilliant ideas: they discover them through a deliberate process of creative trial and error. From his research on innovative leaders, from Apple, 3M, Toyota, and Starbucks, to the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency strategists, to artists and even standup comics, Peter Sims found they shared a surprisingly similar approach.

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Buffett & Gates Go Back to School DVD

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the two richest men in America and very close friends. Though a generation apart in age, and founders of two very different businesses, each has a deep admiration for the other. They share a sense of responsibility to use their wealth to improve the world. In September 2005, the two men spent the day at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln with students and faculty from the College of Business Administration. Learn more

HR Executive Answers: Building a Great Workplace

Learn how to make your organization the best place to work with the new training solution for HR professionals and supervisors: HR Executive Answers: Building a Great Workplace. Learn more

Sustainability Matters: Business Strategies for Environmental Leadership DVD

Release - 2010

With consumers favoring products and services that are better for the environment, companies are finding competitive advantage in the environmental impact of their activities.

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Rapid Skillbuilder Library - 2 Volume Set

The Rapid Skillbuilder Library - 2 Volume Set comes complete with one copy of all 42 of the Rapid Skillbuilder Series. Each Volume includes 21 different skillbuilders. Learn more