Grounded Innovation - Strategies for Creating Digital Products

A guide to the innovation process in technology offers guidelines, business strategies, and examples of successful projects.

List of contents

Part 1: Methods
Chapter 1: Understanding Digital Artifacts
Chapter 2: Innovation: Making a change in the world
Chapter 3: Inquiry: Finding out how things are
Chapter 4: Invention: Creating something new
Chapter 5: Prototyping: Finding out if (and how) it works
Part 2: Materials
Chapter 6: Interaction: Surfaces for input and output
Chapter 7: Networking: When Things Get Connected
Chapter 8: Sensing: Being aware of the context
Chapter 9: Proactivity: Products that decide for themselves
Chapter 10: Creating Digital Products: Mashing it up and getting it out there

Report

"Holmquist, principal research scientist at Yahoo!, offers compelling strategies for the innovation, design and development of digital products. Organized into two overarching pieces addressing methods and materials, sections include innovation, inquiry, invention, and prototyping as well as interaction, networking as product connectivity, sensing as context, and proactivity of products. Numerous real world examples and best practices are given in a larger conceptual framework of innovation within applicable business constraints." --Reference and Research Book News, August 2012

Product details

• Authors: Lars E. Holmquist, Lars Erik Holmquist, Lars Erik Holmquist
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2012
• EAN: 9780123859464
• ISBN: 978-0-12-385946-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Morgan Kaufmann
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Research & Development, Research & development management, Research and development management