Innovation Strategy: Seven Keys to Creative Leadership and a Sustainable Business Model

Howard Rasheed

May 2012 · iUniverse

About this ebook

Innovation Strategy: Seven Keys to Creative Leadership and a Sustainable Business Model provides a blueprint for success in leading an innovation renaissance in your industry and organization. This book introduces the Six Step Collective Intelligence system and the Idea Accelerator software, ground breaking tools that will prepare you for the role of Innovation Strategist in the new global economy.

This book reveals strategies for becoming a creative leader, developing an innovation ecosystem, and winning the future using best practice case studies. You will learn how to intentionally create disruption, inspire creative intelligence, design a sustainable business model, and harness the creativity of your stakeholders using collaborative technology.

These tools will help you craft strategic foresight studies, commercialize technology, create new ventures, or reinvent your business model in a way that is attainable for organizations of any size, from small mom and pop businesses to the largest corporations and government agencies.

About the author

Howard Rasheed is an Associate Professor of Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is internationally known as “The Innovation Strategist” for his stimulating keynotes and informative workshops. As an entrepreneurial visionary, Dr. Rasheed has created several multi-million dollar ventures. He is the founder of the Institute for Innovation and inventor of the Idea AcceleratorTM software (www.idea-act.com).