Design Your Business

A Creative Pathway to Transforming Ideas into Successful Products
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-38726-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

This actionable and lively guide helps aspiring entrepreneurs to acquire a designer’s mindset to transform ideas into successful products, and designers and technologists to identify entrepeneurial opportunities through a unique mix of product and business development toolkits.

Unlike other books focusing either downstream on the launch of a new venture or upstream on ideation and the acquisition of an entrepreneurial mindset, Design Your Business helps innovators to cross the chasm between attractive ideas and actual products, a crucial test in any entrepreneurial endeavor and one which most innovative ideas do not pass. Throughout the book, readers will learn about methods, steps, and resources to unleash their creativity, understand users’ needs, build and test prototypes, and design beautiful products. At the end of this design journey, readers will find an essential business toolkit including business model design, intellectual property protection, funding, and development of effective communication skills that will help them to lay the foundation of a successful venture built around a successful product.

This book will become an essential and thought-provoking resource for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, students of entrepreneurship and new venture creation, and professionals seeking to adopt a design mindset and agile project management in their projects and organizations.

Slides and teaching materials based on this book are curated from the authors and available for free at this link: https://elegantdesignthinking.com/category/learning-resources/

Zielgruppe

Adult education, Postgraduate, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iandoli, Luca

James, Kevin T.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensgründung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Entscheidungsfindung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Verhaltensökonomik
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Chapter 1: A Design Mindset to Entrepreneurship. Chapter 2: A creative mindset for Entrepreneurship. Chapter 3: Empathy: The Art and Practice of Customer Discovery. Chapter 4: Creative Confidence Part 1: Say It! Articulate your Value Proposition. Chapter 5: Creative Confidence Part 2: Make It! The importance of prototyping. Chapter 6: The agile entrepreneur: Iterate, Iterate, and Iterate again! Chapter 7: Make it simpler: Design strategies for smart simplicity. Chapter 8: Design strategies to complexify your product. Chapter 9: The scientist entrepreneur: Learning from Failure. Chapter 10: From Prototypes to Businesses: Design Your Business Model. Chapter 11: A Primer on Intellectual Property. Chapter 12: How to craft effective investor presentations. Chapter 13: Let’s Talk Money. Chapter 14: Where do we go from here.

Über Autor(innen)

Luca Iandoli is Dean of the Collins College of Professional Studies at St. John’s University. Luca was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and served as associate professor at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, and as visiting professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. His research focuses on collective intelligence, interaction design, and design-driven entrepreneurship.

Kevin T. James is Director of Finance and Business Operations in the Office of Student Success and Enrollment Management at St. John’s University. Previously, he served as an Assistant Dean and Director of Fiscal and Administrative Affairs in the Collins College of Professional Studies at St. John’s University. He is currently a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University, focusing on entrepreneurial leadership in education.