Birth Like a Man acts as a field guide for future fathers, helping them to overcome patriarchal gender roles and take a more active role in the process of raising their child. With tips that span from how to cook for someone with morning sickness to creating a birthing plan and tackling those first few days after the hospital, this cheat sheet includes everything you need to know.

With this pocket-sized book, you’ll have access to easily digestible tips, tricks, and summaries that will help...

With the Lean Progress Model, author David Griesbach developed a tool that quickly and purposefully guides you through the Lean Innovation process. You will know at all times where your project stands, which questions are still open-ended and what needs to be done next. In addition, the illustrations throughout the book support the text and turn this book into a practical guide that takes you through the startup and innovation process.

In this book, you will find a proven approach to guide yo...

You want to make products that matter. Products that strike a chord with your target audience. To do that, you will need to connect with customers and users to get their feedback. Sounds easy enough, but figuring out the right research methods for product development can be complex. That’s where this book comes in.

“Make Products That Matter” helps you navigate the entire product lifecycle, considering everything from organisational growth, popular frameworks like lean startup, product...

This is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs searching ways to tackle issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services.

The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of

what services are. Directed to the business world and combines inspirational text that is full of examples, with the features of a useful handbook of practical methods with associated templates.

The central argument is that managers and entrepreneurs designing servic...

Where can a hospital apply principles from the airline sector?

How can a car manufacturer use tools from the video game industry?

What can an event organiser learn from the railways?

Cross-industry innovation is a clever way to jump-start your innovation efforts by drawing analogies and transferring approaches between contexts, beyond the borders of your own industry, sector, area or domain.

Not invented here refers to the phenomenon of people blocking out ideas from the outside, it also indicate...

Managers, we kennen ze. Ze zorgen dat dingen gedaan worden, dat afspraken worden nagekomen en resultaten worden bereikt. Maar waar tien jaar geleden de manager als de oplossing voor veel bedrijven werd gepresenteerd, staat nu zijn voortbestaan ter discussie. Waarom nog een aparte functie? Managen doen we allemaal.

'Think Like a Manager, Don't Act Like One' biedt 75 succesvolle invalshoeken om onvoorspelbare situaties te voorzien of juist te managen. Mede ontwikkeld door John F. Kennedy, Johan...

The Fast Guide to Architectural Form, while staying on theoretical ground, is a very practical guide to the basic forms and shapes in architectural planning and design.

The book is foremost a visual guide. The author presents sixty different architectural basic forms with both a schematic illustration and images of the forms applied in buildings. The text is extremely short, just focusing on the dos and don'ts of the forms and some tips to keep in mind when applying these forms, perfect for ...

Brand the Change unpacks the brand building process in practical steps. Whether you are building an innovative new product, creating a service for good, spreading a new idea, or positioning yourself as a leader in your field, thinking like a brand strategist will help you to create a clear, compelling offer, develop unique brand experiences and ultimately attract and convert the right audiences.The book offers the tools and exercises to build your own brand and offers a rich array of tips fro...

Creativity+ is designed to be interactive and as creative as its premise. It is a book, toolkit and a philosophy that teaches you how to infuse creative thinking in all aspects of your life, supported by practical tools to bring your ideas to fruition. It is divided into the four phases of innovation: Vision, Discovery, Ideation and Momentum. In each phase, the reader is provided with the Mindset (attitudes), Skillset (knowledge), Toolset (techniques) and a supporting Case Study that gives a ...

Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a lot of books on how to get started, but this is the first book that describes what a ‘good’ service is and how to design one. This book lays out the essential principles for building services that work well for users. Demystifying what we mean by a ‘good’ and ‘bad’ service and describing the common elements within all services that mean they either work for users or don’t.

A pract...