How to Kill a Unicorn by Mark Payne - ISBN: 9781857886283
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Transform cool ideas into profitable realities; kill your innovation unicorns.

How to Kill a Unicorn

...and Build Bold Ideas that Make It to Market, Transform Industries and Deliver Growth

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    22 October 2014

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Summary

It’s cool. But so what? This is the billion-dollar question that leading companies such as Samsung, Starbucks and American Express ask Fahrenheit 212 to answer for them whenever they develop new technologies.

Many companies are good at acquiring new product prototypes but bad at working out what they would do when they arrived at the front door. Many just give up, lacking the ‘How’ to go with the ‘Wow’. Using a unique two-sided approach to innovation involving both the Money and the M…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781857886283
ISBN-10:1857886283
Author:Mark Payne
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Business
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:22 October 2014
Weight:313g
Dimensions:215mm x 135mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

[A] very readable and insightful book. Payne presents a good selection of models and tools, along with some well-chosen case studies that will help innovators.

[A] very readable and insightful book. Payne presents a good selection of models and tools, along with some well-chosen case studies that will help innovators. - The Irish Times

A superb new analysis of 21st-century innovation. Mark Payne is able to take us on a journey that might mean you could collect the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. - E&T Magazine

Embraces the beauty of the tension between ‘money’ and ‘magic’ in order to have bold ideas that make it from the Post-it note to the street to the balance sheet. - Nesta - the UK’s innovation foundation

Certainly provides food for thought. Focusing on ideas that have a chance of becoming real is more important than ever. Payne s volume makes pertinent reading. - Professional Engineering

Innovation expert Mark Payne presents new, real and valuable ideas about creativity. Anyone who is innovating should read Payne’s manual and pay attention to his multilevel, practical and useable ‘Money & Magic’ model. - getAbstract

This book is about ensuring that your initiatives and your vision come to life. If you consider yourself an innovator, you ll draw a massive amount of inspiration from How to Kill a Unicorn. - NZ Business

Praise for Fahrenheit 212 The World’s Hottest Innovation Factory: The epicentre of innovation - Esquire

A white-hot idea factory - Business Week

About The Author

Mark Payne

Mark Payne is the co-founder, President and Head of Idea Development of Fahrenheit 212. He draws on his twenty plus years of experience in the creation of new products, new brands and new businesses. Among the companies he’s had the pleasure to work with are Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Toyota, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Campbell’s Soup, Citibank and Starbucks. He is a regular contributor to Business Insider.

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