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The frugal innovator : creating change on a shoestring budget / Charles Leadbeater.

By: Publisher: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Description: xiv, 203 pages : 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137335364
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4/21 23
LOC classification:
  • HD53 .L423 2014
Other classification:
  • BUS006000 | BUS025000 | BUS060000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. The Groundswell -- 2. Design Principles -- 3. Frugal Places -- 4. Frugal Methods -- 5. Conclusions.
Summary: "Frugal innovation is a powerful new model for creating solutions for a world struggling with rapid population growth, exploding demand from consumers on modest incomes, and global pressure to minimize environmental damage. This new wave of innovation started in the developing world but is spreading globally. This inspiring book provides an insight into what promises to become a worldwide movement as large companies in developed economies start to learn from entrepreneurs in the developing world, who are coming up with radical solutions to pressing challenges. Frugal innovators follow four design principles to create these solutions: 'lean, simple, clean and social'. Frugal innovators are devising these new solutions for clean water and energy, affordable housing and health care, because the constraints they work give them no option but to think radically and challenge conventional wisdom. By unpicking the principles, drivers and methods for frugal innovation, Leadbeater's analysis and case studies lead to practical 'how-to' strategies for applying frugal innovation wherever you work. "-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD53 .L423 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001339752

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index.

"Frugal innovation is a powerful new model for creating solutions for a world struggling with rapid population growth, exploding demand from consumers on modest incomes, and global pressure to minimize environmental damage. This new wave of innovation started in the developing world but is spreading globally. This inspiring book provides an insight into what promises to become a worldwide movement as large companies in developed economies start to learn from entrepreneurs in the developing world, who are coming up with radical solutions to pressing challenges. Frugal innovators follow four design principles to create these solutions: 'lean, simple, clean and social'. Frugal innovators are devising these new solutions for clean water and energy, affordable housing and health care, because the constraints they work give them no option but to think radically and challenge conventional wisdom. By unpicking the principles, drivers and methods for frugal innovation, Leadbeater's analysis and case studies lead to practical 'how-to' strategies for applying frugal innovation wherever you work. "-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. The Groundswell -- 2. Design Principles -- 3. Frugal Places -- 4. Frugal Methods -- 5. Conclusions.

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