Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams
An essential innovation guidebook for leaders, managers, marketers, engineers -anyone who needs to develop creative solutions to tough challenges.
Today's innovation challenges are complex. Solving them requires diverse teams and a common understanding of thinking frameworks, process and tools. In Fire Up Innovation, you'll discover a proven gameplan to ignite your team's innovation engine. You learn how to collaborate successfully by embracing all diversity and building support to sustain a team through the innovation process.
You will learn by doing with plenty of examples and exercises to develop your own innovation process within the context of virtual and hybrid group and rise of Artificial Intelligence.
Discover:
- A simple formula for creating your high-performance innovation team
- Why diversity is critical to innovation
- How to limit conflict from your group's process
- The role of AI in innovation
- A new understanding of your own creativity
- How to innovate in a virtual or hybrid world
Author and Innovation Expert Helene Cahen is passionate about helping others access their creative potential and solve meaningful challenges in a team. In Fire Up Innovation, she shares all the tools you need to develop your own innovation process to use in your business, non-profit, education, or even your personal life. You'll find that your work becomes easier, more effective, more collaborative, and, ultimately, more fulfilling and joyful.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Helene Cahen, M.S., is an innovation consultant, trainer, facilitator, and speaker with over 20 years of experience helping companies navigate innovation challenges. She is a successful speaker whose recent TEDx talk on high performance collaboration for teams was highly received.
She is the founder and principal consultant at Fire Up Innovation Consulting (previously Strategic Insights), where she guides Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profits to understand innovation, create innovative new products/services, build effective teams, and support a user-centered culture. She is also a coach for the Berkeley Haas School of Business Executive Program.
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"I've known Helene for years, through the main TED Conference. She's among the best in the world at innovation. Her book gives you a practical framework & process for teams to collaborate successfully. A must-read for all COOs, CEOs, and leaders. This will change the way you do business. And businesses need to change."
Cameron Herold, Founder, COO Alliance; Author, The Second In Command, and Vivid Vision(R)
"A must-have guide to navigate the uncertainties, frustrations, and challenges often associated with innovation. This book presents a pragmatic framework to foster innovation throughout an organization and to enable teams to achieve a more seamless collaboration."
Peter Bregman, CEO, Bregman Partners; Best Selling Author of Leading with Emotional Courage and 18 Minutes
"The risk of not changing is greater than the risk of changing. This is what Helene Cahen's book Fire Up Innovation teaches us. In a concise and clear manner interspersed with practical exercises, this book lays out the core principles of innovation that will allow us to navigate and be more comfortable in our ever-changing world-whether as a team builder in a major corporation or as an ordinary citizen."
Hélène Mialet, Professor Department of Science Technology Society, York University Canada; Author, Hawking Incorporated
"Cahen fires up your innovation to speed through all three stages of truth . . . helping you quickly move your ideas from being ridiculed and violently opposed to the ultimate goal of becoming self-evident.
Soon Yu, Author of Friction and Iconic Advantage
" Helene Cahen's remarkable new book is certain to get you fired up about innovation. It overflows with reflection questions and actionable exercises designed to ignite new and creative thinking."
Laura Hassner, Executive Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
" Helene has done a wonderful job taking the otherwise squishy nature of innovation and collaboration and boiling it down into simple practical tools that any team can use. Stop staring at empty whiteboards, put down your dry erase markers, and pick up this book!"
Jamie Wheal, Founder, Flow Genome Project; Author, Stealing Fire, Recapture the Rapture
"A practical book for all leaders to move their team to the path of innovation while saving time and frustration."
Corinne Dive-Reclus, Global Head of Roche Digital Diagnostics; Advisory Board Member for Innosuisse, Mentor for the European Women Leadership Program
