While many books have been written about innovation, most are focused on advocating the importance of innovation and don't provide a roadmap to help build a sustainable innovation capability. "Make Us More Innovative" was written to fill that gap. This book was written for the innovation manager or chief innovation officer who has been instructed to "make us more innovative" and who needs a roadmap to help him or her accomplish that task. This book will help you: gain credibility quickly identify the key challenges in your organization build a successful innovation capability in less time and with better results "Make Us More Innovative" is a valuable tool for any business hoping to understand and create a culture of innovation. Jeffrey does a great job of laying out all the steps that will help you make your innovation initiative a reality.
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The mission of the United States Air Force is to fly, fight and win...in air, space and cyberspace. The Air Force is the first military service in the Department of Defense to include the cyberspace operating domain as part of its mission. The Air Force has undergone notable changes to incorporate this new domain of operations, to include establishing a cyberspace numbered air force and creating a cyberspace career field. The Air Force converted all of its Communications and Information Officers into Cyberspace Operations Officers in April 2010. The Air Force, however, has not completed an in-depth analysis of what skills the officers in this new career field will need in order to face future cyberspace challenges. This new career field is an amalgamation of officers with different educational backgrounds and operational experiences. The essence of any organization is the culture among its members. An accepted definition of organizational culture is a shared set of beliefs among members of a group that establishes acceptable behavior by individuals within the group. When the Air Force recognized cyberspace as an independent operating domain it became important for the service to foster a cyber-minded culture. This research offers a better understanding of and recommendations for shaping a cohesive, operationally-oriented, and mature cyber-minded culture, which the Air Force desires for its new operating domain. To accomplish this goal, this research explores three context-specific cultural variables with regard to their influence on certain career fields in the Air Force's operating domains. Those variables are advocacy and mentorship, education and formal training, and divergence of career paths. Each of the variables plays a role in fostering cohesion, operational orientation, and maturity of domain-minded cultures. A study of the air- and space-minded cultures, with a careful focus on their maturation from their birth and early growth stages to organizational mi

Looking for new ways to open up the readings for your congregation? Try this collection of twelve dramatic readings of Revised Common Lectionary texts that fall between Ash Wednesday and Pentecost and are included in all three lectionary cycles or easily adapted for use in any cycle. Great for Bible study and youth programs, too. Reproducible.