Building an Innovation Powerhouse: Maximising People Potential to Grow Your Business

In Building an Innovation Powerhouse you will learn how to maximise the potential of people to grow your business. Authors Andy Wynn and Jim Hick dive deep into the most complex aspect of innovation and skilfully deconstruct the multi-dimensional complexities of working with people to reveal the secrets of how to handle the challenges of innovation.

Building an Innovation Powerhouse uncovers the inner workings of industry giants, including Boston Consulting Group, Google, Hexcel, Kennametal, DuPont, CeramTec, Novartis, and many more, and explains exactly how these organisations and their leaders have motivated people to create a culture of innovation. A roadmap clearly sets out change in the following:
1. Culture - how to guide an organisation to work holistically.
2. Teams - how to ensure collaboration is laser-focused on business growth.
3. Individuals - what people can do to become more creative and contribute to business success.
4. Diversity - how to develop the right mix of skillsets, backgrounds and viewpoints.
5. Leadership - what business leaders need to do to ensure that all levels of the business are heading in the right direction and delivering growth.

Written with true insight by renowned leaders in their fields and enhanced by valuable case studies and contributions from numerous senior executives who have a real passion for stimulating innovation to drive business growth, this book is essential reading for businesses looking to transform into an innovation powerhouse.

Andy Wynn is an international business leader, entrepreneur and former CTO at a FTSE 250 multinational manufacturer, with a passion for applying new technologies to solve the world’s problems. He is the founder and CEO of TTIP Global, the international management consulting group that helps innovative science, technology and engineering companies scale and grow, and author of the Innovation for Business Leaders book series, including Cracking the Innovation Code and Transforming Technology into Profit. In 2021 he was appointed Associate Professor at IE Business School in Madrid.

Jim Hick is a renowned pioneer of inspiring experiential leadership and people development initiatives and a world-class facilitator of senior managers, with over 30 years’ experience in industry as a people development specialist of all levels. He has helped thousands of professionals all over the world to become better leaders, and is a serial entrepreneur, having established a number of successful businesses, most notably Allendale Brewery, an award-winning business based in the UK.