The Ten Faces of Innovation (Ebook)

Strategies for Heightening Creativity

Tom Kelley

Essential reading for every single person in your organization - even the CEO should read it! Each page contains a nugget that's worth the price of the entire book. Wow.

A brilliant guide to fostering creativity and business innovation, The Ten Faces of Innovation shows how any individual can become an experienced architect, storyteller, caregiver or cross-pollinator...just four of the ten characters that can be adopted in different situations to create a broader range of solutions to business problems. At the start of the creative process you might be the 'anthropologist', going into the field to see how customers use and respond to products; later you might be the 'hurdler', who overcomes obstacles on the way to the finished product. The book explains with examples from business how adopting these characters can beat nay-sayers who stifle innovation.

Publication date: 03/11/2016

£9.99

ISBN: 9781847656650

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B01KAEKJZ6

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Business & Management

The Ten Faces of Innovation (Paperback)

Strategies for Heightening Creativity

Tom Kelley

The ten personas your innovators can adopt and harness to boost creativity from the bestselling author and ex-general manager of IDEO

Innovation is the lifeblood of every company - the fuel that keeps an organisation going in a tough marketplace. But by its very nature it's hard to plan for, quantify and coach. In The Ten Faces of Innovation Tom Kelley explains how to do it.

Kelley, author of bestselling The Art of Innovation, reveals the strategies that his world-famous design firm IDEO uses to foster original thinking and overcome naysayers who stifle creativity. For Kelley, innovation is all about individuals and teams. He identifies ten key roles developed by IDEO that anyone can adopt in order to innovate in different situations. Ranging from 'the anthropologist' and 'the hurdler' to 'the experience architect' and 'the cross-pollinator', they are all illustrated with real corporate examples and will help you transform the way you work, and show those around you how to do the same. The result is a brilliant and applicable guide to fostering creativity and creating a culture of innovation in any workplace.

Publication date: 03/11/2016

£10.99

ISBN: 9781781256152

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Business & Management

Reviews for The Ten Faces of Innovation

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Essential reading for every single person in your organization - even the CEO should read it! Each page contains a nugget that's worth the price of the entire book. Wow.

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Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow 

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Superbly maps how people and process can be managed to innovate successfully. Every business executive should read it.'

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Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School 

'This book delivers some tasty morsels to managers hungry to boost their companies' level of innovation. Funny, insightful and chock-full of inspiring examples.'

 BusinessWeek

'Kelley throws off innovation as lesser men throw off dandruff.'

 The Guardian

Tom Kelley

Tom Kelley

Tom Kelley is the best-selling author of Creative Confidence, The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation as well as a partner at the renowned design and innovation consultancy IDEO. As a leading innovation speaker, Tom has addressed business audiences in more than thirty countries. Tom is an Executive Fellow at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and holds a similar role at the University of Tokyo.