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The Imagination Machine

How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future
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The Imagination Machine by Jack Fuller and Martin Reeves delves into how businesses can harness imagination to drive innovation and growth. It explores the processes and frameworks that organisations can adopt to effectively stimulate creative thinking and transform imaginative ideas into practical strategies. The book offers insights into fostering a culture of creativity that can lead to significant business breakthroughs.
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This book may appeal to you if you're intrigued by how imagination can drive business innovation and transformation. You might enjoy exploring how companies can harness creativity to adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. With practical insights and strategies, the authors guide you in turning imaginative ideas into real-world competitive advantages.

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The Imagination Machine

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A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed.

We need imagination now more than ever—to find new opportunities, rethink our businesses, and discover paths to growth. Yet too many companies have lost their ability to imagine. What is this mysterious capacity? How does imagination work? And how can organisations keep it alive and harness it in a systematic way?

The Imagination Machine answers these questions and more. Drawing on the experience and insights of CEOs across several industries, as well as lessons from neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and philosophy, Martin Reeves of Boston Consulting Group's Henderson Institute and Jack Fuller, an expert in neuroscience, provide a fascinating look into the mechanics of imagination and lay out a process for creating ideas and bringing them to life:

  1. The Seduction: How to open yourself up to surprises
  2. The Idea: How to generate new ideas
  3. The Collision: How to rethink your idea based on real-world feedback
  4. The Epidemic: How to spread an evolving idea to others
  5. The New Ordinary: How to turn your novel idea into an accepted reality
  6. The Encore: How to repeat the process—again and again.

Imagination is one of the least understood but most crucial ingredients of success. It's what makes the difference between an incremental change and the kinds of pivots and paradigm shifts that are essential to transformation—especially during a crisis.

The Imagination Machine is the guide you need to demystify and operationalise this powerful human capacity, to inject new life into your company, and to head into unknown territory with the right tools at your disposal.

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The Imagination Machine by Jack Fuller and Martin Reeves is praised for encouraging a shift from conventional metrics-driven thinking towards embracing creativity to meet business challenges. Reviewers appreciate its emphasis on leveraging imagination as a strategic asset, highlighting its role in fostering innovation and overcoming uncertainty. The book is seen as a vital resource for leaders looking to nurture imagination within their organisations, providing insights into applying creativity systematically to achieve long-term success.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781647820862

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 June 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 241.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Martin Reeves is a Senior Partner and Managing Director at BCG and a globally recognized thought leader in business. He is a coauthor of Your Strategy Needs a Strategy and has also written articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Strategy Science, Nature, and Science. He is Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, BCG's internal think tank, and has led numerous strategy assignments across industries, including consumer goods, high tech, industrial goods, healthcare, extractive industries, and financial services. His current research themes include strategy and AI, organizational stamina, business ecosystems, and a template for the new learning organization. Reeves holds a triple first-class MA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. He also studied Japanese at Osaka University and biophysics at the University of Tokyo.

Jack Fuller is a former Special Project Manager at the BCG Henderson Institute and the founder of Casati Health, a company that reimagines mental and physical health. He is the author of numerous business articles on topics including purpose, strategy games, transformation, play, and goal setting. He has also worked with a range of BCG clients, focusing on brand strategy, customer journey mapping, and innovation. Fuller has appeared on UK Channel 4's Sunday Brunch as a guest philosopher, on Australia's Radio National Life Matters, and as a speaker at conferences on the humanities in Sweden, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Australia. He holds a degree in neuroscience from the University of Melbourne, where he contributed to research in Human Brain Mapping and Brain, Behavior and Evolution, as well as a master's degree and a doctorate, both in theology, from the University of Oxford, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship.

You can find more about Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller on Twitter at twitter.com/MartinKReeves and twitter.com/jackmfuller.

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