Developing New Business Ideas
(Sprache: Englisch)
How do you take a promising thought and develop it into an enterprise worth backing? Developing New Business Ideas is an imaginative and interactive companion to converting creativity into successful enterprise.
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How do you take a promising thought and develop it into an enterprise worth backing? Developing New Business Ideas is an imaginative and interactive companion to converting creativity into successful enterprise.
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Publisher's acknowledgements Authors' acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The importance of developing strong ideas * James Dyson - using the idea development process to clean up * Demystifying the idea development process * Slaying the myth that entrepreneurs are born, not made * The four steps in the idea development process * And another thing: benefits of the idea development process * Call in the cavalry or do it yourself? * Sir Clive Sinclair and the C5 the perils of a flawed process of idea development Chapter 2: Applying creativity to the idea development process * Phil Knight and NIKE combining logic and intuition into record-breaking success * Why is creativity a must? * Reconnect with your creativity * Creativity and the idea development process * Mastering whole-brain thinking * Ingvar Kamprad using logic and intuition to break the mould with IKEA Chapter 3: Step One - seeking and shaping opportunities * Amazon.com shaping the internet opportunity * Don't rush to headlong action * Give yourself time to develop alternatives * Treat your first business idea as purely tentative * Total immersion in the market * Fact-finding * Tools for seeking and shaping opportunities * Moving to Step Two acknowledging Catch-22 * Iridium the imperfect solution to an opportunity which never existed? Chapter 4: Step Two generating new ideas * Howard Head an analogical approach to business success * Eureka? * The Mind Gym: six mental workouts and their related routines * Ground-rules for productive mental workouts * Mental Workout One - Checklists * Mental Workout Two - Stimulus materials * Mental Workout Three - Combinations * Mental Workout Four Free-association * Mental Workout Five - Analogical thinking * Mental Workout Six Upside-down thinking * Moving to Step Three * Thomas Alva Edison idea generator par excellence Chapter 5: Step Three - evaluating and selecting ideas * Karan Bilimoria: brewing the criteria to achieve the big one * Evaluation allows development,
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not just selection * Two-phase screening process * Evaluation frameworks for screening ideas * Criteria to use within the frameworks * Business-focused criteria * Person-focused criteria * Decision balance sheet * Prototyping * Gary Mueller and Internet Securities, Inc. selecting a venture to suit his needs Chapter 6: Step Four - planning for implementation * Frederic Smith overcoming the obstacles to Fedex * The importance of planning for implementation * Increasing the likelihood of successful implementation * The blocks to implementation * Techniques to identify blocks to implementation * Guiding principles for overcoming blocks to implementation * Practical examples of overcoming blocks to implementation * Milestone planning * Jollibee Foods Corporation planning to beat a giant Appendix 1: Possible solutions to ambigious picture Appendix 2: References: Index
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Autoren-Porträt von Mary Bragg
Mary Bragg worked in marketing with GlaxoSmithKline, before undertaking management consultancy with PricewaterhouseCoopers, both in the UK and internationally. Her professional qualifications include a Masters Degree from London University. She combines independent management consultancy with a university career as Principal Lecturer on entrepreneurship and creativity. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Mary was a founding trustee of the Academy of Enterprise. Her earlier book, Re-inventing Influence, won the Management Consultancies' Association award for best management book of the year in 1996. Andrew Bragg's wide-ranging business career includes general management and marketing roles in the UK and mainland Europe across commercial and not-for-profit sectors. His chief executive roles have covered the multimedia, print and packaging sectors and have involved a number of entrepreneurial start-ups. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, Andrew also gained an MBA from Cranfield University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mary Bragg
- 2005, Maße: 15,4 x 2,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Pearson Financial Times
- ISBN-10: 0273663259
- ISBN-13: 9780273663256
Sprache:
Englisch
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