Mr Alexander Manu's Books

Behavior Space

Play, Pleasure and Discovery as a Model for Business Value

By: Mr Alexander Manu

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Behavior Space

Play, Pleasure and Discovery as a Model for Business Value

By: Mr Alexander Manu

Behavior Space proposes that corporations do not design products or services anymore: they design behavior spaces. Facebook is not a product, not a technology, but a behavior space. Innovation is the creation of a new behaviour space. The product or service is simply the catalyst that enables a new behavior space to emerge. The size of the behaviour space footprint, represents the potential value a product or service offers; the greater the value potential, the greater the monetization potential. Alexander Manu illustrates how these new concepts are transforming design and product development so that the process changes from a static and product-centred approach to one that is entirely centred on the user and their behaviours that emerge as they interact with what they have bought. He provides a new language to describe the way in which the physical, intellectual and emotional features of products and services achieve a relationship between the user and the brand. And he explains the concept of Play Value, which underpins the attraction for customers and depends on compelling experiences that are challenging, rewarding and absorbing; that never frustrate and that encourage repeated use. Designers and brand managers seeking to understand and exploit commercially the fundamental changes in consumers that are driven by technology, experience and social interaction will find Behavior Space a wonderful place to start.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409472442

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9781409472445

Value Creation and the Internet of Things

How the Behavior Economy will Shape the 4th Industrial Revolution

By: Mr Alexander Manu

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Value Creation and the Internet of Things

How the Behavior Economy will Shape the 4th Industrial Revolution

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Value Creation and the Internet of Things describes value delivery and consumption, exploring the mechanisms by which new value is captured and created in enterprises dedicated to competing and prospering in this new environment. Manu revisits existing theories and frameworks of intrinsic motivation, explores their validity in the age of co-creation, and synthesizes a new framework to capture the changes in the mind-sets of individuals and organizations. The book provides a context in which the Internet of Things will soon become mainstream, forcing organizations to re-evaluate their value creation methodologies in light of new consumer behavior and expectations.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472451813

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9781472451811

Disruptive Business

Desire, Innovation and the Re-design of Business

By: Mr Alexander Manu

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Disruptive Business

Desire, Innovation and the Re-design of Business

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Disruptive Business is a provocative and insightful redefinition of innovation as an outcome of human behaviour, a dynamic in constant change requiring the shaping of new responses in business and the economy. Alexander Manu believes that organizations must treat innovation not as a process to be managed but as an outcome that changes people's lives. In Disruptive Business he explains how innovation is the moment when human behaviour is changed by a particular invention, discovery or event. This position challenges the current understanding of innovation, as well as the current ecology in which innovation operates in organizations: its management, methods, tools, language, focus and metrics. The challenge extends to some of the labels currently applied to innovation typologies, such as 'disruptive innovation', seen today as addressing purely the technological side of an invention, rather than the more complex motivational and behavioural side. Alexander Manu considers that a disruption is not manifest in the moment a new technology is introduced. The disruption is the human being and manifest only when human motivation embraces the technology and uses it to modify and improve everyday life. Our acceptance and appropriation of new technologies creates the business disruption. Manu makes the case that successful innovation outcomes are answers to conscious or subconscious goals residing in human motivation, and motivation starts in desire. This position is consistent with the history of innovations that have changed, improved and reshaped human life, and also consistent with their roots and ethos. Humans are a 'perpetually wanting animal', bound to desire, to seek media for a better self and to need innovation. In this dynamic, innovation is the constant and business is the variable. The role of business is to create the tools, objects and services through which people can manifest what they want and who they are. The book provides a new perspective of current behavioural disruptions which are relevant to the continuity of business, as well as a set of practical methodologies for business design, aimed at creating innovation outcomes of value to users.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409458792

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Open Design and Innovation

Facilitating Creativity in Everyone

By: Mr Leon Cruickshank

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Open Design and Innovation

Facilitating Creativity in Everyone

By: Mr Leon Cruickshank

Open innovation, crowd sourcing, democratised innovation, vernacular design and brand fanaticism are amongst a handful of new approaches to design and innovation that have generated discussion and media coverage in recent years. In practice, these ideas are often inspiring propositions rather than providing pragmatic strategies. Open Design and Innovation develops the argument for a more nuanced acknowledgement and facilitation of 'non-professional' forms of creativity; drawing on lessons from commercial design practice; theoretical analysis and a wider understanding of innovation. Specifically this book examines: innovation and design, the reality and myth of mass creativity and the future of the design profession, through a series of case studies of new approaches to open design practices. The text draws on academic research, practical experience of the author in delivering open design projects and first hand interviews with leaders in the fields. The author challenges the notion of the designer as 'fountain-head' of innovation and, equally, the idea of 'user creativity' as a replacement for traditional design and innovation. The book offers a critique of the hype surrounding some of the emerging phenomena and a framework to help understand the emerging relationship between citizens and designers. It goes on to propose a roadmap for the development of the design profession, welcoming and facilitating new modes of design activity where designers facilitate creative collaborations.

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1409474755

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Behavior Space

Behavior Space

Value Creation and the Internet of Things

Value Creation and the Internet of Things

Disruptive Business

Disruptive Business

Open Design and Innovation

Open Design and Innovation

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