Innovating : a doer's manifesto for starting from a hunch, prototyping problems, scaling up, and learning to be productively wrong / Luis Perez-Breva ; artwork by Nick Fuhrer ; foreword by Edward Roberts.
Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a sho...
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- PART I, Anatomy of a Hunch: Being Productively Wrong
- Prototyping a Real World Problem
- PART II, Exploring in Foresight: Learning from Parts and People
- Interacting with Parts
- Interfacing with People
- At a Small Scale Nonlinearity is Your Ally
- A Kit to Drive Innovation Anywhere
- Operating on the Problem Through Trial and Error
- PART III, Organizing What You've Learned: Exploring Impact
- Practicing Advocacy
- Risk, Doing, Learning and Uncertainty
- Scaling Up and Organization
- Managing Innovation Continuously
- The World is your Lab: You Need a Notebook to Converse With Yourself
- Epliogue: Academic Commentary
- Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Decision Making
- Bridging with artificial intelligence
- Iterations and the induction argument
- Kits DIY and experimentation
- Kuhn versus Popper
- Learning and innovating
- No thing is new
- The nonlinear nature of innovation
- Organizational theory and computation
- Parts and Modularity
- People and teams
- Problem solving
- The Relationship among Scale, Execution, and Organization Building