Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation - Softcover

Hoffman, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349418837 ISBN 13: 9780349418834

Publisher: Piatkus, 2017

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD, 2019 CMI BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS

Drawing on case studies from the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley, this step-by-step guide will show you how to develop, validate, and bring your impossibly big ideas to life.

In today's world, everyone needs to innovate to stay competitive. It doesn't matter if you're a startup founder, corporate executive, small business owner, freelancer, or professional: There's a technology out there that's going to upend your industry. And if you aren't able to harness it to your advantage, someone else will. Innovation is no longer an option - it's the price of admission into the business world.

Make Elephants Fly willhelp you implement the same methodologies and processes as the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley. It will show you:

*How startups come up with breakthrough products and services.
*How to structure innovation teams.
*The best ways to identify and vet new ideas.
*What it takes to foster a culture of innovation.
*How to establish a process of innovation throughout your organization.

By the time you've digested this book, you will have the tools needed to take your impossibly big idea and make it fly!

About this title

About the Author

Steven Hoffman is the Captain and CEO of Founders Space, where he has educated and trained hundreds of startup founders and corporate executives in the art of innovation. Founders Space works with entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and investors in 22 countries to create innovations that rock the world! It was ranked a Top 10 Incubator in Inc. and the #1 Accelerator for startups coming to Silicon Valley from overseas in Forbes. Always innovating, Hoffman has tried more professions than cats have lives, including serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, mobile studio head, computer engineer, filmmaker, Hollywood TV exec, published author, coder, game designer, manga rewriter, animator and voice actor.

From the Back Cover

Drawing on case studies from the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley, this step-by-step guide will show you how to develop, validate, and bring your impossibly big ideas to life.

In today's world, everyone needs to innovate to stay competitive. It doesn't matter if you're a startup founder, corporate executive, small business owner, freelancer, or professional: There's a technology out there that's going to upend your industry. And if you aren't able to harness it to your advantage, someone else will. Innovation is no longer an option - it's the price of admission into the business world.

Make Elephants Fly is designed to help you implement the same methodologies and processes as the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley. It will show you:
*How startups come up with breakthrough products and services.
*How to structure innovation teams.
*The best ways to identify and vet new ideas.
*What it takes to foster a culture of innovation.
*How to establish a process of innovation throughout your organization.

By the time you've digested this book, you will have the tools needed to take your impossibly big idea and make it fly!

Edition details

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349418837
• ISBN 13: 9780349418834
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320