Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business, 2nd Edition

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A complete five-step program for identifying and executing on disruptive business opportunities – now updated and even more effective! 

• Combines the design industry's most powerful "disruptive thinking" techniques with real business implementation discipline
• Walks through defining disruptive opportunities, brainstorming disruptive ideas, crafting them into coherent solutions, getting buy-in, and more
• By frog design's Luke Williams, one of the world's most experienced designers of disruptive products and services

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&>Master a complete five-step program for identifying and executing on disruptive business opportunities!  Now updated and even more effective, Luke Williams' Disrupt, Second Edition combines the design industry's most powerful "disruptive thinking" techniques with real business implementation discipline.

Drawing on his pioneering experience innovating at the legendary frog design (and teaching innovation at NYU), Williams shows exactly how to generate and execute on a steady stream of disruptive strategies. Using updated examples and a book-length case study, Williams shows how the more unexpected an idea, the smaller the number of competitors, and the more successful the company that brings it to market.

You'll walk through generating your disruptive hypothesis, defining your disruptive market opportunity, creating multiple disruptive ideas, shaping them into an actionable solution, and persuading key stakeholders to adopt or invest in your solution.

Disrupt, Second Edition is for all entrepreneurs, product and marketing managers, R and D specialists, strategists, and senior executives seeking to create disruptive products, services, and customer experiences. It offers you a systematic and proven way to redefine your company's future, stun your industry, and leave your competitors scrambling to catch up.

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Introduction to Disruptive Thinking: The Revolution Is in Full Swing

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Table of Contents

Preface     x
Introduction     1
Disruptive Thinking:
The Revolution is in Full Swing

PART I: THE HYPOTHESES, THE OPPORTUNITY, AND THE IDEAS

Chapter 1     16
Crafting a Disruptive Hypothesis:
Be Wrong at the Start, to be Right at the End

Chapter 2     40
Discovering a Disruptive Opportunity:
Explore the Least Obvious

Chapter 3     78
Generating a Disruptive Idea:
Unexpected Ideas Have Fewer Competitors

PART II: THE SOLUTION AND THE PITCH

Chapter 4     108
Shaping a Disruptive Solution:
Novelty for Novelty’s Sake is a Resource Killer

Chapter 5     142
Making a Disruptive Pitch:
Underprepare the Obvious, Overprepare the Unusual

Quick Reference Guide     172
Process Summary

PART III: THE DISRUPTIVE LEADER

Chapter 6     184
The Disruptive Leader’s Motivation
A Different Attitude

Chapter 7     200
The Disruptive Leader’s Mindset
A Different Awareness

Epilogue     227
An Instinct for Change:
Look Where No One Else is Looking

Endnotes     229
Acknowledgments     239
About the Author     242
Beyond the Book     243
Index     247

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