If you want to be a better innovator, CYCLES will change the way you think about innovation. With easy hands-on tools, CYCLES will make it easier to innovate faster while reducing risks.There are lots of books, courses, and videos on innovation. They are fun and usually motivating, but seldom deliver long-term results.CYCLES is a fun book, but more importantly, it explains how to innovate at every stage. Consistent winners are idea builders that make good or even mediocre ideas great over time.” With CYCLES you’ll learn by doing how to grow ideas up to 6x faster while cutting risks by over 50%.This book brings together 4 years of research and the work of 22 innovation experts into a simple system with easy-to-use canvases and tools. The foundation of this system is thinking of idea building as an ongoing process of cycles. Some cycles are short, and some are long. The best cycles include the ABCs of innovation.A = AlignB = Build ideasC = Communicate and Check S = Systematically ImproveThis system ties the theories and research from hundreds of books into something easy to understand and something you can do right now. If you want to be a better innovator, CYCLES will change the way you think about innovation. More importantly, with easy hands-on tools, CYCLES will make it easier to innovate faster while reducing risks. 22 guest authors helped realizing this book: Agnis Stibe (France), Arjan Groen (the Netherlands), Charles Umeh (Nigeria), Dennis van der Spoel (the Netherlands), Filip Hendrickx (Belgium), Franck Vinchon (the Netherlands), Fritz Seidel (Switzerland), Julio Carazo (Spain), Lana Kristine Jelenjev (the Netherlands), Lucas Sauberschwarz (Germany), Lysander Weiss (France), Martin Gaedt (Germany), Nicolas Deturck (Luxembourg), Reinhard Ematinger (Germany), Sergio Pereira (Portugal), Shayne Smart (the Netherlands), Simon Vanhoucke (Belgium), Stoyan Yankov (Denmark), Tony De Bree (the Netherlands), Urs Rothmayr (Spain), Wade Milek (US), Yuri Kruman (US)7 Reasons to buy this book1. Get the collective wisdom of 22 worldwide innovation experts2. 29 easy-to-use canvases that make it easier to innovate faster while reducing risks3. Learn what we learned from 4 years of research with over 400 companies.4. Get the theories and research from hundreds of books into something simple and actionable5. You’ll understand the biggest myths about innovation and how they are probably blocking your organisation6. Learn why killing ideas is as important as building new ideas and how to do it.7. Learn how to build a culture where innovation is not the flavor of the month but an embedded organizational habitCYCLES is a complete step-by-step innovation guide that will teach how to innovate faster while reducing risks