Trend-Driven Innovation: Beat accelerating customer expectations - Brossura

Mason, Henry; Mattin, David; Luthy, Maxwell; Dumitrescu, Delia

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ISBN 10: 1119076315 ISBN 13: 9781119076315

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2015

Riassunto

Trend-Driven Innovation

Beat accelerating customer expectations.

Every business leader, entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer wants to know where customers are headed. The problem? The received wisdom on how to find out is wrong.

In this startling new book, the team at TrendWatching share a powerful, counter-intuitive truth: to discover what people want next, stop looking at customers and start looking at businesses. That means learning how to draw powerful insights from the way leading brands and disruptive startups—from Apple to Uber, Chipotle to Patagonia—redefine customer expectations.

Sharing the secrets that have led thousands of the world's most successful brands and agencies to rely on TrendWatching for over a decade, Trend-Driven Innovation is the book that will reconfigure your view of the business world forever.

You'll learn:

• How to spot emerging trends using three crucial building blocks, and how to recognize the expectation gaps that herald opportunity.
• Why most professionals focus on precisely the wrong trends and innovations, and how to avoid this.
• How to turn trends and insights into innovations that customers will love.

Amid the endless change that defines today's business environment, opportunity is everywhere. Highly practical, and featuring real-world examples from around the world, Trend-Driven Innovation is the actionable, battle-tested manual that will enable you harness those opportunities time after time. Setting you up to build an organization that matters, products customers love, and campaigns people can't stop talking about.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Henry Mason (Managing Director) has overseen trend thinking across all trendwatching.com's free publications and paid services since 2010. In the past 3 years, Henry has given over 50 keynote presentations in more than 25 countries across 6 continents. Henry has been quoted as a trend expert in numerous business publications, including The Guardian, Financial Times, El Pais, The New York Times and The Economist, and has appeared on television networks such as CNBC, the BBC, Al Jazeera and Brazil's Globo News.

David Mattin (Head of Trends & Insights) is responsible for day-to-day trend thinking across free and Premium content. He started his career on the features desk at The Times, and has written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio. His business, innovation and consumer insight journalism has appeared in a wide range of newspapers and magazines including CNBC, Quartz, Inc Magazine, the National, Harper’s Bazaar and more.

Delia Dumitrescu (Lead Innovation Architect) has delivered presentations and workshops across Europe, and guest lectures at various universities. She is a published trend and innovation expert, and author of several books including Road Trip to Innovation and was featured in Forbes Romania’s Top 30 Under 30 in 2014.

Maxwell Luthy (Senior Trend Strategist) represents trendwatching.com in North America, delivering keynotes and facilitating client workshops. Maxwell was previously the Director of trendwatching.com’s 2,600+ international spotter network.. He has spoken on trends in the US, UK, Turkey, South Africa and the Philippines, and has been quoted as a trend expert in publications such as the Financial Times.

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Every business leader, entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer wants to know where customers are headed. The problem? The received wisdom on how to find out is wrong. This book demonstrates a powerful, counterintuitive truth: to anticipate what people will want next, stop looking at customers and start looking at businesses. That means learning how to draw actionable insights from the way leading brands and disruptive startups?from Apple to Uber, Chipotle to Patagonia?redefine expectations. Sharing the secrets that have led hundreds of thousands of professionals at the world's most successful brands and agencies to rely on TrendWatching for over a decade, Trend-Driven Innovation will reconfigure your view of the business world. Highly visual and intensely practical, it will act as a step-by-step manual to enable you to build an organization that matters, products customers love, and campaigns people can't stop talking about.

"If you're an innovator, designer, entrepreneur, or in need of one, read this book. It is entertaining and pathologically precise, and unveils a simple and elegant system for spotting early trends that may reshape our business, community, and life."
?Lisa Gansky, entrepreneur, investor, author of The Mesh

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1119076315
• ISBN 13: 9781119076315
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile