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This book demonstrates how innovation is used to create wealth, productivity growth, and improved quality of life
The management of technological innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations. The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with contemporary and historical empirical evidence to provide a comprehensive, yet concise and readable, guide t...
While innovation is widely recognised as being critical to organisational success and the well-being of societies, it requires careful management to ensure that innovation processes have the best possible impact. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the nature of innovation management and its influences.
China's extraordinary economic development is explained in large part by the way it innovates. Contrary to widely held views, China's innovation machine is not created and controlled by an all-powerful government. Instead, it is a complex, interdependent system composed of various elements, involving bottom-up innovation driven by innovators and entrepreneurs and highly pragmatic and adaptive top-down policy. Using case studies of leading firms and industries, along with statistics and policy analysis, this book argues that China's innovation machine is similar to a natural ecosystem. Innovations in technology, organization, and business models resemble genetic mutations which are initially ...
An episodic log of some of the author's more memorable hours aloft in peace and as a member of the Air Transport Command in war.
"This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with significant implications for managers and public policy-makers."--Book jacket.
David Gann considers the changes in the construction and use of the built environment that are currently emerging, and how innovative practices and materials can be integrated into the construction process
W. D. Gann's Commodities Trading Course is an extensive course. This course gives you a number of different trading techniques and skills. Which include: charting, chart interpretation, using Gann Angles, Squaring Price and Time, using Gann Squares, Square of Nine, Gann Numbers, Gann Calculators and more. This course consists of Gann's original course he sold in the early 1950's for a reported $5,000. Here is a listing of the subjects covered in this Course: Speculation; a Profitable Profession. Mechanical Method and Trend Indicator Rules for Trading in Grains The Basis of My Forecasting Methods for Grains Forecasting by Time Cycles. The Basis of My Forecasting Method for Cotton Mechanical Method and New Trend Indicator for Cotton Cash and May Soybean Futures Master Egg Course Master Charts Supplement Section
First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage’s 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single musical note, is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. A meditation on the act of listening and the nature of performance, Cage’s controversial piece became the iconic statement of the meaning of silence in art and is a landmark work of American music. In this book, Kyle Gann, one of the nation’s leading music critics, explains 4'33" as a unique moment in American culture and musical composition. Finding resemblances and resonances of 4'33" in artworks as wide-ranging as the paintings of the Hudson River School and...
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021 SHORTLISTED TITLE*** Does all the good stuff only happen at weekends? Have Sunday evenings become depressing, as the working days ahead come into view? Has your week been reduced to pointless meetings, over-complicated tasks and disillusioned colleagues? You’re convinced there’s a better way of getting things done. But where to start? Well, this book has the answers. David Mansfield shows you how to reclaim your work week. In a lifetime of work, David has encountered, tolerated, conquered and failed at most of the things you’ve come to accept as the natural order. The business world is a messy place. Processes and systems that were meant to help result in i...