Drawing from decades spent helping Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 executives, two Stanford d.school directors present a simple metric called Ideaflow that correlates directly to an organizations capacity to solve problems and devise breakthrough solutions.
Teams succeed to the degree that there is a free flow of ideas. Read this book to learn how to bring out the best in othersand in yourself. Scott Galloway, bestselling author of The Four and Post Corona
Ideaflow: the number of ideas you or your team can generate in a set amount of time
We all want great ideas, but few actually understand how theyre born. Innovation doesnt come from a sprint or a hackathon--its a result of maximizing ideaflow.
Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn of Stanfords renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the d.school) offer a proven strategy for coming up with great ideas by yourself or with your team, and quickly determining which are worthy. Drawing upon their combined decades of experience leading Stanfords premier Launchpad accelerator and advising some of the worlds most innovative organizations, like Microsoft, Michelin, Keller Williams Realty, and Hyatt, theyll teach you how to:
Overcome dangerous thinking traps
Find inspiration in unexpected places
Trick your own brain to be more creative
Design and deploy affordable experiments
Fill your innovation pipeline
Unleash your own creative potential, as well as the potential of others
Perhaps you have experienced low ideaflow. Have you been in that quiet conference room, with a half-filled whiteboard, and an unmet business target . With the proven system in this book, entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders will learn how to tap into surprising and valuable ideas on demand and fill the creative pipeline with breakthrough ideas.
