Inspiring Next Series

Books on Innovation by Dr. Ripi Singh

What is Innovation?

Innovation is like a sport – a team sport, a contact sport, played in the market arena. You don’t win every game, but if you practice regularly with a coach, your success rate keeps getting better. A brilliant coach is the one who stays with you on the ground, pushes you hard, gives you timely and candid feedback, inspires your team with strategic plans, and also helps you with tactical moves. A real coach is always by your side, physically, mentally, and emotionally; happy when you win, empathetic when you lose, and even provocative when required for your own good.

The Inspiring NEXT series is a package of innovation best practices and tools, to help leaders and readers strengthen the mental muscle and build the organization’s innovation capacity. It is not intended to replace your coach but assist you both.

Acknowledgements

The content of the Inspiring Next Series comes from the years of research on innovation and experience working individuals, organizations and institutes that gave me hope, confidence, motivation, and feedback to make this happen.

Foreword

Having known Ripi Singh for more than 20 years, I am very happy to see this set of 4 volumes by him on innovation. Ripi is well qualified to write this having played the roles of an academician, an industry researcher, an industry research leader, and an innovation coach.

– Gopichand Katragadda

Introduction

This book series is all about rebuilding the innovation muscle, which we all had as children, and which we have demonstrated in the face of the recent pandemic.