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Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate

by Michael Schrage

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Publisher Comments:

Schrage, who argues that models provide insight and troubleshooting techniques, shows how to use models, prototypes, and simulations to create breakthrough innovations.

Book News Annotation:

A handbook for product, process, and project leaders using digital model, prototype, and simulation technologies to manage their innovation initiatives. Draws on the experiences of companies including Walt Disney, Boeing, and IBM to identify common patterns and practices that distinguish productive prototyping cultures from pathological ones, and explores the connection between how leading innovators model reality and how they actually manage it. Schrage is research associate with the MIT Media Lab, a Merrill Lynch Forum Innovation Fellow, and a columnist for Fortune magazine.
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Synopsis:

This text argues that the real value in building models derives from the help they offer with troubleshooting and problem solving than from the insights they reveal about the organization itself. Technology models can change us - improving the way we communicate, collaborate, learn, and innovate.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-234) and index.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780875848143
Subtitle:
How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate
Foreword:
Peters, Tom
Author:
Schrage, Michael
Author:
Peters, Tom
Publisher:
Harvard Business School Press
Location:
Boston, mass. :
Subject:
Management
Subject:
Decision Making & Problem Solving
Subject:
Technological innovations
Subject:
Corporate History - Strategies
Subject:
Corporate & Business History - Strategies
Subject:
Technological innovations -- Management.
Publication Date:
January 1999
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
244
Dimensions:
9.56x6.57x.99 in. 1.22 lbs.

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