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Diffusion of innovations / by Rogers, Everett M.(CARDINAL)152731;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-501) and indexes.
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations.; Diffusion of innovations;
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Innovating with impact / by Ladd, Ted,Author(DLC)no2023022748; Lanteri, AlessandroAuthor(DLC)n 2014013226;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.Part 1: the context and mindset for innovation. Innovative people -- Innovative organisations -- Part 2: process, tools and methods for innovation. Innovation as disruption -- Innovation as a process -- Refining innovation -- Part 3: themes and trajectories in innovation. Innovative pricing -- Multi-sided platforms -- Data-driven innovation -- Social innovation.We're all innovators now. Thinkers and entrepreneurs Ted Ladd and Alessandro Lanteri show us how to make the most of our ideas. It is a myth to consider innovation the domain of the special few who are inspired by "eureka!" moments that always result in brilliant new products. In reality, anyone with the right tools, traits, and methods has the potential to innovate with impact, generating profits and even changing the world. In this engaging guide, top thinkers and entrepreneurs Ted Ladd and Alessandro Lanteri show how to create innovations that deliver customer value. Their Innovation Pyramid outlines a strategic process that is rooted in the right cultures and mindsets and uses a range of methods, techniques and themes to reach the pinnacle of maximum impact. Throughout the book, stories and examples from different organisations and contexts bring the text to life. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to create, innovate, improve performance, and ultimately, make a difference.
Subjects: Technological innovations.; Technological innovations; Diffusion of innovations.;
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How innovation works : and why it flourishes in freedom / by Ridley, Matt,author.(CARDINAL)424649;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen. Matt Ridley argues in this book that we need to change the way we think about innovation, to see it as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens to society as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others. It is always a collective, collaborative phenomenon, not a matter of lonely genius. It is gradual, serendipitous, recombinant, inexorable, contagious, experimental and unpredictable. It happens mainly in just a few parts of the world at any one time. It still cannot be modelled properly by economists, but it can easily be discouraged by politicians. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine. Ridley derives these and other lessons, not with abstract argument, but from telling the lively stories of scores of innovations, how they started and why they succeeded or in some cases failed. He goes back millions of years and leaps forward into the near future. Some of the innovation stories he tells are about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, vaccines, cuisine, antibiotics, mosquito nets, turbines, propellers, fertiliser, zero, computers, dogs, farming, fire, genetic engineering, gene editing, container shipping, railways, cars, safety rules, wheeled suitcases, mobile phones, corrugated iron, powered flight, chlorinated water, toilets, vacuum cleaners, shale gas, the telegraph, radio, social media, block chain, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence, fake bomb detectors, phantom games consoles, fraudulent blood tests, faddish diets, hyperloop tubes, herbicides, copyright and even--a biological innovation--life itself.
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations; Technological innovations;
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The maker movement manifesto : rules for innovation in the new world of crafters, hackers, and tinkerers / by Hatch, Mark,1960-(CARDINAL)707103;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Maker movement manifesto -- Free innovation! -- Communities of practice -- Knowledge, learning, control and intelligence -- Fueling innovation -- Democratization of tools and information -- Rise of the pro-am -- Distributed and flexible manufacturing -- Accelerating innovation -- Changing through participation.
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations; Technological innovations;
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Think outside the building : how advanced leaders can change the world one smart innovation at a time / by Kanter, Rosabeth Moss,author.(CARDINAL)136935;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: How to Attack a Castle -- Introduction: Taking Leadership to a New Place -- Demand and Supply -- Skills and Sensibilities -- Conclusion:An Army for Change: The Call to Lead."To address the big social and environmental issues of our day--from poverty, to race and gender disparities, to climate change--we need a different kind of leadership. Good leadership can help solve problems and guide an organization to success. Over a decade ago, Kanter cofounded and has since directed Harvard's breakthrough Advanced Leadership Initiative. In this book, she combines extraordinary stories from the business world with a pragmatic tool kit to deliver a new theory of leadership for producing significant societal change, one that begins where conventional leadership thinking ends"--
Subjects: Case studies.; Creative nonfiction.; Leadership.; Organizational change.; Social change.; Diffusion of innovations.;
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Flavor of the month : why smart people fall for fads / by Best, Joel.(CARDINAL)270733;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197) and index.The illusion of diffusion -- Why we embrace novelties : conditions that foster institutional fads -- The fad cycle : emerging -- The fad cycle : surging -- The fad cycle : purging -- Fad dynamics -- Becoming fad-proof.
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations.; Fads; Social institutions.;
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Behavioral change in agriculture : concepts and strategies for influencing transition. / by Leagans, J. Paul.(CARDINAL)199472; Loomis, Charles P.(Charles Price),1905-1995.(CARDINAL)130971;
Bibliography: pages 490-494.1. Introduction -- Pt 1: Complementaries In Macro And Micro Approaches -- 2. Agricutlural Development -- 3. Development Change: Some Political Aspects -- Pt 2: Technology And its Utilization -- 4. Agricultural Research And Technology -- 5. Extension Eductaion And Modernization -- Pt 3: The Economy And The Polity -- 6. Agricultural Economics -- 7. Developmental Aspects of Administration -- Pt 4: Social Science And Development -- 8. Sociology -- 9. Social Psychology -- Pt 5: Synthesis: Concepts And Strategies -- 10. Social Sciences -- 12 Agricultural Sciences -- 13. Resume.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Diffusion of innovations; Agricultural innovations; Social change;
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International diffusion of technology; the case of semiconductors / by Tilton, John E.(CARDINAL)123716;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Case studies.; Diffusion of innovations; Technological innovations; Semiconductors.;
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Ideas that changed the world / by Fernández-Armesto, Felipe,author.(CARDINAL)708844;
Subjects: Civilization; Intellectual life; Diffusion of innovations;
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The evolution of everything : how new ideas emerge / by Ridley, Matt,author.(CARDINAL)424649;
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch--the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt Ridley's wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia, or morality. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. Patterns emerge, trends evolve. Just as skeins of geese form Vs in the sky without meaning to, and termites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains take shape without brain-makers, learning can happen without teaching and morality changes without a plan. Although we neglect, defy and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world. The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm yields so that more land can be released for nature--these were largely emergent phenomena, as were the Internet, the mobile phone revolution, and the rise of Asia. Ridley demolishes the arguments for design and effectively makes the case for evolution in the universe, morality, genes, the economy, culture, technology, the mind, personality, population, education, history, government, God, money, and the future. As compelling as it is controversial, authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley's stunning perspective will revolutionize the way we think about our world and how it works"--"A book that makes the case for evolution over design and skewers a widespread but dangerous myth: that we have ultimate control over our world"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index.Prologue: the general theory of evolution -- The evolution of the universe -- The evolution of morality -- The evolution of life -- The evolution of genes -- The evolution of culture -- The evolution of economy -- The evolution of technology -- The evolution of the mind -- The evolution of personality -- The evolution of education -- The evolution of population -- The evolution of leadership -- The evolution of government -- The evolution of religion -- The evolution of money -- The evolution of the internet -- Epilogue: the evolution of the future.
Subjects: Evolution.; Diffusion of innovations.; Technology and civilization.; Civilization, Modern.;
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