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Trade idea overload for meaningful innovation

Roberto Verganti challenges brainstorming-led approaches to innovation. He maps a vision-driven process refined through progressive criticism. Examples from Nest Labs, Apple, and others show how meaning can create business value.

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ISBN: 9780262035361
Authors: Roberto Verganti
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Date of Publication: 2017-02-03
Format: Hardback
Related Collections: Business, Economics, Philosophy
Goodreads rating: 3.83
(rated by 122 readers)

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How to Create Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas. The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders—users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective at improving products but not at capturing bigger opportunities in the marketplace. In this book Roberto Verganti offers a new approach—one that does not set out to solve existing problems but to find breakthrough meaningful experiences. There is no brainstorming—which produces too many ideas, unfiltered—but a vision, subject to criticism. It does not come from outsiders but from one person’s unique interpretation. The alternate path to innovation mapped by Verganti aims to discover not how things work but why we need things. It gives customers something more meaningful—something they can love. Verganti describes the work of companies, including Nest Labs, Apple, Yankee Candle, and Philips Healthcare, that have created successful businesses by doing just this. Nest Labs, for example, didn’t create a more advanced programmable thermostat, because people don’t love to program their home appliances. Nest’s thermostat learns the habits of the household and bases its temperature settings accordingly. Verganti discusses principles and practices, methods and implementation. The process begins with a vision and proceeds through developmental criticism, first from a sparring partner and then from a circle of radical thinkers, then from external experts and interpreters, and only then from users. Innovation driven by meaning is the way to create value in our current world, where ideas are abundant but novel visions are rare. If something is meaningful for both the people who create it and the people who consume it, business value follows.
 

Trade idea overload for meaningful innovation

Roberto Verganti challenges brainstorming-led approaches to innovation. He maps a vision-driven process refined through progressive criticism. Examples from Nest Labs, Apple, and others show how meaning can create business value.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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