Disruptive Business

Desire, Innovation and the Re-design of Business

Alexander Manu

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Routledge
24 June 2024

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Business strategy; Management & management techniques; Sales & marketing; Organisational theory & behaviour

Disruptive Business is a provocative and insightful redefinition of innovation as an outcome of human behaviour, a dynamic in constant change requiring the shaping of new responses in business and the economy. Alexander Manu believes that organizations must treat innovation not as a process to be managed but as an outcome that changes people's lives. In Disruptive Business he explains how innovation is the moment when human behaviour is changed by a particular invention, discovery or event. This position challenges the current understanding of innovation, as well as the current ecology in which innovation operates in organizations: its management, methods, tools, language, focus and metrics. The challenge extends to some of the labels currently applied to innovation typologies, such as 'disruptive innovation', seen today as addressing purely the technological side of an invention, rather than the more complex motivational and behavioural side. Alexander Manu considers that a disruption is not manifest in the moment a new technology is introduced. The disruption is the human being and manifest only when human motivation embraces the technology and uses it to modify and improve everyday life. Our acceptance and appropriation of new technologies creates the business disruption. Manu makes the case that successful innovation outcomes are answers to conscious or subconscious goals residing in human motivation, and motivation starts in desire. This position is consistent with the history of innovations that have changed, improved and reshaped human life, and also consistent with their roots and ethos. Humans are a 'perpetually wanting animal', bound to desire, to seek media for a better self and to need innovation. In this dynamic, innovation is the constant and business is the variable. The role of business is to create the tools, objects and services through which people can manifest what they want and who they are. The book provides a new perspective of current behavioural disruptions which are relevant to the continuity of business, as well as a set of practical methodologies for business design, aimed at creating innovation outcomes of value to users.

By: Alexander Manu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9781032838410
ISBN 10: 1032838418
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 24 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Chapter 1 Perspectives for a Conversation about Innovation; Chapter 2 Innovation is a Behaviour Outcome; Part 1 Perspectives for Innovation; Chapter 3 The New Context; Chapter 4 Rethinking Innovation; Chapter 5 Purpose in Innovation; Chapter 6 Ethos and the Role of Desire in Innovation; Chapter 7 The Ecology of Innovativeness; Part 2 Collaborative Innovation; Chapter 8 Massive Innovativeness, SamiViitam�„ki; Chapter 9 Beyond Strategic Thinking, JeanneLiedtka; Chapter 101 Afterword; Chapter 102 The Nature of Innovation;

Alexander Manu is a strategic innovation practitioner, international lecturer and author. He works with executive teams in Fortune 500 companies in industries as diverse as consumer packaged goods, media, advertising, mobile communications and manufacturing. Alexander lectures around the world on innovation, imagination, change agents and strategic foresight. He is a Senior Partner and Chief Imaginator at InnoSpa International Partners, teaches Innovation, Foresight and Business Design at the Rotman School of Management, and is a Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design and in Toronto. In his client and research work, Alexander is involved in transforming organizations by exploring and defining new competitive spaces, the development of new strategic business competencies and creation of imaginative innovation methods. Author of 'Everything 2.0: Redesign your Business Through Foresight and Brand Innovation', 2008 'The Imagination Challenge Strategic Foresight and Innovation for the Global Economy', 2006, 'ToolToys: Tools with an Element of Play', 1995, and 'The Big Idea of Design', 1999. Alexander has an exceptional and sustained activity as an international lecturer, being invited to give over 300 keynote lectures in 23 countries.