The Business of Creativity

The Business of Creativity
Author: Keith Granet
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1616895535

Long known as the go-to management consultant of the design world, Keith Granet reveals more of his clear-eyed insights about running a creative business in this follow-up to his book The Business of Design. While aimed at creative enterprises, Granet's advice, quickly summarized as "know what you do best and focus on that," applies to any organization, small or large, commercial or nonprofit. He delves into the skill sets and people needed to grow a business, as well as the things you don't need (bad clients, bad employees, negative energy), in an engaging and easy-to-implement manner. His shrewd understanding, gleaned from decades of consulting for brands like Harrods, Pantone, John Varvatos, and Urban Archeology, makes this essential reading for anyone managing a business or thinking of starting one.

Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition)

Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition)
Author: Ed Catmull
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0679644504

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

The Business of Design

The Business of Design
Author: Keith Granet
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1648960340

The Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. For nearly thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has helped designers create successful businesses, from branding to billing and everything in between. Unlike other business books, The Business of Design is written and illustrated to speak to a visually thinking audience. The book covers all aspects of running a successful design business, including human resources, client management, product development, marketing, and licensing. This timely update on the tenth anniversary of the first edition includes new content on social media, working from home, and understanding and working with different generations, essential tools in today's ultracompetitive marketplace.

Inside the Music Industry

Inside the Music Industry
Author: Michael Fink
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book is a solid introduction to the music industry for students with no prior experience, offering a comprehensive overview of the people, technologies, and law that impact on all aspects of the music business. Inside the Music Industry focuses primarily on popular/rock music and how it is created, marketed, recorded, and packaged, as well as the various media in which music plays apart, from radio to video, television, print, and film. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to take into account new developments over the last five years, including digital recording and broadcasting technology, changes in the copyright laws, and legal issues raised by new technologies, such as the controversy over "sampling" existing recordings. Throughout the text, new examples, photographs, and charts have been added to enhance the timeliness of the work.

Digital Entrepreneurship

Digital Entrepreneurship
Author: Mariusz Soltanifar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030539148

This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and tomorrow. Digital entrepreneurship and the companies steering it have an enormous global impact; they promise to transform the business world and change the way we communicate with each other. These companies use digitalization and artificial intelligence to enhance the quality of decisions and augment their business and customer operations. This book demonstrates how cloud services are continuing to evolve; how cryptocurrencies are traded in the banking industry; how platforms are created to commercialize business, and how, taken together, these developments provide new opportunities in the digitalized era. Further, it discusses a wide range of digital factors changing the way businesses operate, including artificial intelligence, chatbots, voice search, augmented and virtual reality, as well as cyber threats and data privacy management. “Digitalization mirrors the Industrial Revolution’s impact. This book provides a complement of perspectives on the opportunities emanating from such a deep seated change in our economy. It is a comprehensive collection of thought leadership mapped into a very useful framework. Scholars, digital entrepreneurs and practitioners will benefit from this timely work.” Gina O’Connor, Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College, USA “This book defines and delineates the requirements for companies to enable their businesses to succeed in a post-COVID19 world. This book deftly examines how to accomplish and achieve digital entrepreneurship by leveraging cloud computing, AI, IoT and other critical technologies. This is truly a unique “must-read” book because it goes beyond theory and provides practical examples.” Charlie Isaacs, CTO of Customer Connection at Salesforce.com, USA "This book provides digital entrepreneurs useful guidance identifying, validating and building their venture. The international authors developed new perspectives on digital entrepreneurship that can support to create impact ventures.” Felix Staeritz, CEO FoundersLane, Member of the World Economic Forum Digital Leaders Board and bestselling author of FightBack, Germany

Business Creativity

Business Creativity
Author: Michael C Fanning
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2020-02-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Business Creativity is the first volume of a series of textbooks called Fundamentals of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, which has won multiple awards in Africa and Europe. It is a comprehensive guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs who desperately want to acquire the critical business tools to generate a brilliant idea and turn it into an innovative start-up company.In a refreshingly enjoyable and well-illustrated how-to guide for first-time entrepreneurs... Michael C. Fanning serves up 17 bite-sized Lectures ... helping start-up founders to: -Accelerate their entrepreneurial mind-sets by providing them with proven and tested scientific methods that foster creativity in business.-Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours that stop them from creating and maintaining sustainable enterprises.-Learn to apply various hands-on techniques to collect constructive feedback from industry experts to formulate a successful product launch.By the end of Business Creativity, first-time entrepreneurs will be educated, empowered and equipped to apply creative thinking while attempting to develop innovative products, processes and services which help carry out the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).[ Each entrepreneur purchasing this textbook through Amazon will automatically be granted access to the online course 'Business Creativity' via PhilTech Business Academy's website: https: //www.PhilTech.Academy provided that they email their proof of purchase of the textbook to this email address: [email protected] ]In order to finalize this textbook, Michael C. Fanning has traveled extensively and met with Government officials in Stuttgart, where he took part in the Autumn School for Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Social Impact Lab Stuttgart (Germany). He also worked in France for two months to refine the entrepreneurship curriculum, which makes up the full series of 8 textbooks and called Fundamentals of Sustainable Entrepreneurship. He trained and collected feedback from entrepreneurs in Gabon, Cameroon, Burundi and Nigeria.He was invited by the President of Egypt H.E Abdul Fattah El-sisi to take part in the Arab and African Youth Platform in Aswan (Egypt) where he met with the president on live Egyptian television. Further, through this presidential event, he was introduced to Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela's grandson; Zondwa Mandela who gave him a training on Social Entrepreneurship while he was in Egypt. Lastly, this book was refined even further when Michael C. Fanning had the immense privilege to take part in the 2nd edition of the Pan African Youth Forum held at the African Union's Headquarters located in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). The African Union was a great opportunity to be exposed to the 2063 Agenda, as well as the 1 Million campaign by 2021 initiated by the President of the African Union Commission; H.E Moussa Faki.

Creative Industries

Creative Industries
Author: Richard E. Caves
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674001640

"To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as Heaven's Gate."--BOOK JACKET.

Business Creativity and Innovation: Perspectives and Best Practices

Business Creativity and Innovation: Perspectives and Best Practices
Author: Len Ferman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781516541942

Business Creativity and Innovation: Perspectives and Best Practices provides a foundation in the principles of innovation and introduces some cutting-edge concepts. The core of the book demonstrates how to generate, evaluate, and design ideas to solve business problems. Over the course of eight chapters, the anthology delivers insightful articles carefully selected from leading authors such as Clayton Christensen, Robert Cooper, Ram Charan, and Vijay Govindarajan, as well as award-winning case studies on how prominent businesses, including Apple and Google, have leveraged innovation. Readers explore insightful articles about driving business growth through innovation, creating a culture of innovation, identifying customer needs, and using innovation to solve customer problems. Additional readings examine idea evaluation, how to design new products and services to meet customer's needs, and the implementation of innovation processes and practices. Business Creativity and Innovation is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in business innovation, product development, strategic management, business leadership, entrepreneurship, design thinking, marketing strategy, and decision making. The book can also serve as an enlightening manual for businesses and corporations, as it provides a framework for managing the innovation process from which organizations of any size can benefit. A former business innovation executive for Fortune 100 companies like AT&T and Bank of America, Len Ferman earned his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, M.A. in economics from Duke University, and B.S. in economics from Lehigh University. He is an adjunct professor of management at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses he developed on business innovation, and is a faculty member of the American Management Association. He is the founder and managing director of Ferman Innovation and a frequent speaker on business innovation.