Design-Inspired Innovation - Softcover

Utterback, James M; Ekman, Sten; Sanderson, Susan Walsh; Vedin, Bengt-arne; Verganti, Roberto; Tether, Bruce; Alvarez, Eduardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9812566953 ISBN 13: 9789812566959

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension of the user. It creates meaning and a new language.Design-Inspired Innovation takes a unique look at the intersection between design and innovation, and explores the novel ways in which designers are contributing to the development of products and services. The book's scope is international, with emphasis on design activities in Boston, England, Sweden, and Milan. Through a rich variety of cases and cultural prisms, the book extends the traditional design viewpoint and stretches the context of industrial design to question ― and answer ― what design is really all about. It gives readers tools for inspiration, and shows how design can change language and even create human possibilities.

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About the Author

James M Utterback is David J McGrath jr. Professor of Management and Innovation in the Sloan School of Management and Professor of Engineering Systems in the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and a Member of the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory. Bengt-Arne Vedin is Professor of Innovation Management at Malardalen University in Eskilstuna, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Swedish Society for International Affairs, the Swedish Academy of Verbovisual Communication, and the World Academy of Art & Science. Eduardo Alvarez is a graduate of MIT where he did his thesis on Managing Creativity for Effective Innovation. He is a designer and entrepreneur and is President of VIGIX, Inc, which he founded. Sten Ekman is Doctor of Industrial Ergonomics at the Department of Innovation, Design and Product Development at Malardalen University in Eskilstuna, Sweden. He has been honored as "The Entrepreneur of the Year in Academic Leadership in Sweden 2001" and also for the Malardalen Program on Innovation Management as "The Entrepreneurial Program of the Year in Sweden 2000." He is the Head of an international four-year project "University Business Development Centres at Ukrainian Universities" from 2005. Susan Walsh Sanderson is Associate Professor at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She is recipient of the Boeing Outstanding Educator Award and the Hesburg Award for Educational Innovation. Bruce Tether is Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, Manchester Business School and a Ghoshal Fellow of the United Kingdom's Advanced Institute of Management Research. Roberto Verganti is Professor of Management of Innovation at the School of Management and at the Faculty of Design of Politecnico di Milano, and Director of MaDe in Lab, the laboratory for Marketing, Design and Innovation of MIP-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. He is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, and member of the Advisory Council of the Design Management Institute, Boston. A project Sistema Design Italia in which he participated as a Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee was awarded the most prestigious design award in Italy, the "Compasso d'Oro" in 2001.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812566953
• ISBN 13: 9789812566959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280