The Ten Faces of Innovation

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The Ten Faces of Innovation

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ISBN: 9780385512077
author: Tom Kelley / Jonathan Littman
publishing house: Currency/Doubleday
publication date: 2005 -10
price: USD 29.95
number of pages: 288

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Filled with stories of how Kraft, Procter & Gamble, Safeway, and Samsung have incorporated IDEO's thinking to transform the customer experience, The Ten Faces of Innovation is a guide to nurturing and sustaining a culture of continuous innovation and renewal.
From Publishers Weekly
Kelley's latest builds on The Art of Innovation, which celebrated the work culture that distinguishes his high-profile, award-winning industrial design firm, IDEO. This book covers much of the same territory, but focuses on the type of worker and team-building rather than the work environment. The authors define 10 personas, including Anthropologists, who contribute insights by observing human behavior; Experimenters, who try new things; Hurdlers, who surmount obstacles; Collaborators, who bring people together and get things done; and Caregivers, who anticipate and meet customer needs. Like its predecessor, the book is breezy and well written, with plenty of self-promotion. Kelley and Littman weave classic and recent stories of business innovation, such as 3M's Scotch tape, Volvo's three-point seatbelts and Netflix's mail-in DVDs, with IDEO's own success stories with clients ranging from the Boston Beer Company, for whom IDEO designed a new Sam Adams tap handle, to Organ Recovery Systems, for whom IDEO helped develop ways to expedite kidney transport. Aspiring business innovators and fans of The Art of Innovation may find further inspiration in this handbook. (Oct. 18)
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length: (cm)23.8                 width:(cm)15.6

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