Design a Better Business

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New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation

By Lisa Kay Solomon and Patrick van der Pijl and Justin Lokitz

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Design a Better Business guides entrepreneurs and business professionals through supportive techniques and methodologies to enhance innovation and create a more flexible business model. It explores practical tools, from design thinking to visual problem-solving, empowering teams to navigate and adapt to change iteratively. Through a blend of real-world examples and exercises, the book focuses on nurturing a holistic approach to transforming businesses.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking to unlock innovation and drive success in your organisation. It's ideal for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and creative thinkers eager to explore an interactive approach to design thinking and strategy. With practical tools and insights, it shows how to build a robust business model while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Design a Better Business

This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you ve likely never seen before, guiding readers (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business.

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Design a Better Business stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you’ve likely never seen before. It guides readers step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business.

Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over 20 total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.

This book also features over 50 case studies and real-life examples from large corporations such as ING Bank, Audi, Autodesk, and Toyota Financial Services, to small startups, incubators, and social impact organisations. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

Also included are personal insights from thought leaders such as Steve Blank on innovation, Alex Osterwalder on business models, Nancy Duarte on storytelling, and Rob Fitzpatrick on questioning, among others.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Design a Better Business is praised for its visually appealing design and engaging layout, which effectively draws readers in. It is considered an informative and essential read for anyone contemplating starting a business, making the reading process both interesting and insightful.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119272113

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 October 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Contributors:

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 567g

Pages: 272

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Strategy & Negotiation Justin Lokitz Lisa Kay Solomon Non-Fiction Patrick van der Pijl

About the Author

Patrick van der Pijl is CEO of Business Models Inc. and producer of the worldwide best seller Business Model Generation. He is passionate about helping entrepreneurs, leaders, rebels and corporate companies to innovate their business model and design a future strategy.

Justin Lokitz is the co-author of Design A Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation, a strategy blogger and frequent contributing author, as well as an experienced strategy designer and managing director of the Business Models Inc. offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CA USA. He has 16+ years of experience of managing product strategies for large, multi-national corporations, like Autodesk and Oracle, as well as several startups.
Justin has a MBA in Design Strategy, from California College of the Arts, a BA in Environmental Science and Geography, from University of California Santa Barbara, as well as professional certifications in software development and product management, from University of California Berkeley

Maarten van Lieshout is partner at Thirty-X. He has applied visual thinking at an early stage for a Dutch idea factory, turning ideas into visual and tangible experiences. He always brings a new perspective to the table - and always stimulates others to get involved in the action.

Erik van der Pluijm is founder and creative director at Thirty-X. He is passionate about visual thinking and making complex things simple. He mixes design, code and strategy, using his experience from art and design, artificial intelligence, computer games, and the startup scene.