Small Effort Big Result: You Can Innovate

Small Effort Big Result: You Can Innovate shows how innovation can be achieved at the level of the individual — a sharp contrast to most writing on innovation, which focuses almost exclusively on organisations.Written for professionals who want to overcome everyday business challenges with greater clarity and effectiveness, the book demonstrates how innovation can be applied deliberately rather than left to inspiration or chance. The ideas presented are equally applicable to non-business problems where clear thinking and practical outcomes matter.Drawing on extensive research into thousands of proven innovative solutions, the book explains how meaningful breakthroughs arise from what it calls an innovative value gap — the difference between the effort invested in solving a problem and the disproportionately large result that can be achieved.The book is built around a clear, research-based framework that identifies six distinct ways of resolving problems innovatively, whether a problem is already known, not yet recognised, or has yet to emerge. It then presents a complete, end-to-end methodology for applying this framework in practice, enabling readers to solve problems and generate value through a structured, repeatable approach to innovation — on their own account. Read more