TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leadbeater,Charles
TI  - The frugal innovator: creating change on a shoestring budget 
SN  - 9781137335364
AV  - HD53 .L423 2014
U1  - 658.4/21 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Creative ability in business
KW  - Problem solving
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Cost effectiveness
KW  - New products
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Budgeting
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195) and index; Machine generated contents note: -- 1. The Groundswell -- 2. Design Principles -- 3. Frugal Places -- 4. Frugal Methods -- 5. Conclusions
N2  - "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. "--
ER  -