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Coolfarming : Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing.
Title:
Coolfarming : Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing.
Author:
GLOOR, Peter.
ISBN:
9780814413876
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 HOW DO YOU TURN A COOL IDEA INTO A TREND? -- The Four Steps of Coolfarming -- Finding the Trendsetters -- Growing Your Own Trends -- Coolfarming Is More Than Managing a Project -- Coolfarming the World Wide Web -- Coolfarming Linux -- 2 SWARM CREATIVITY: The Force That Fuels Coolfarming -- The More Swarms Communicate, the Better They Perform -- Swarm Business Beats "Black Swans" -- Lessons from the Beehive -- Swarm Creativity in Ghana -- Essentials of Coolfarming and Coolhunting -- 3 CREATORS: Building the Vision -- COIN Leaders Are Not Leaders -- Eating and Feeding Royal Jelly -- Royal Pheromone-Nicholas Negroponte -- Coolfarmers Are Coolhunters -- How Do Leaders Get Selected? -- Coolfarming Tourists-Immersing Yourself into the Swarm -- Coolfarming a Palm Tree Plantation-Empowering the Community -- Running an Internet Café in Ghana-Using the Swarm to Police the Swarm -- Seven Guidelines for Creators -- 4 COINS: Building the Product -- How Picasso Created Cubism Through a COIN -- Gain Power by Giving It Up-Rotating Leadership -- Start Out as a Small Fish in a Big Pond -- Six Guidelines for COINs -- 5 CLNS: Teaching and Preaching the Gospel -- Increasing Sales Through a CLN of Salespeople -- Learning About Innovations Through the P&G Technology Entrepreneurs -- Coolfarming in Twilight -- Six Guidelines for CLNs -- 6 CIN: Building the Buzz -- Immersion Gets the Swarm to Explosion-LEGO Mindstorms -- Building the Heat-Yummy Industries -- From Creators to CINs-Illustrating the Process Through Social Networks -- Five Guidelines for CINs -- 7 COOLHUNTING: Find the Trends Through the Trendsetters -- Coolhunting Combines the Wisdom of Crowds, Experts, and Swarms -- Coolhunting U.S. Presidential Candidates -- Coolhunting the Value of Brands: Looking for the End of the Federer Era.

Why the World's Most Influential Intellectual Is an Islamic Cleric -- Predicting the Outcome of the Academy Awards -- Predicting Stock Trends -- Predicting the Actions of People Using Social Badges -- 8 WHAT MOTIVATES COOLFARMERS? -- Coolfarmers Show Yhteisöllisyys and Gemeinsinn -- Coolfarmers Are Ethical -- COINs Need Cops -- Coolfarmers Are Happy -- Coolfarmers Are Altruistic -- AFTERWORD: It's Not Chief Executives, but Chief Creators We Need! -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Pursuing new ideas is clearly the way to gain business advantage in the new millennium. But it's not enough to simply chase after ideas that have already happened. To truly benefit, individuals and organizations have to foster the new creative impulses around them. Coolfarming shows readers how they, like bee keepers, can nurture exciting trends and unleash their creative swarm's output of "next big ideas.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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