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COOLFARMING: TURN YOUR GREAT IDEA INTO THE NEXT BIG THING


GLOOR P.

wydawnictwo: AMACOM , rok wydania 2010, wydanie I

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If you want to stay ahead of the curve, it’s not enough to catch on to the latest hot idea once it’s already hot. Coolfarming gives you practical, hands-on advice on how to carry your own cool ideas over the tipping point, nurture a swarm of creative collaborators to develop the next big trend for your own target group, and ride a wave of innovation.

It also contains real-life examples of how to find, develop, and popularize the trends of tomorrow. . .and reap the benefits.


Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgments  IX

1 HOW DO YOU TURN A COOL IDEA INTO A TREND? 1

The Four Steps of Coolfarming 4

Finding the Trendsetters  7

Growing Your Own Trends 9

Coolfarming Is More Than Managing a Project 11

Coolfarming the World Wide Web  17

Coolfarming Linux  .21

2 SWARM CREATIVITY: The Force That Fuels Coolfarming 29

The More Swarms Communicate, the Better They Perform 34

Swarm Business Beats “Black Swans” 37

Lessons from the Beehive  40

Swarm Creativity in Ghana 55

Essentials of Coolfarming and Coolhunting  68

3 CREATORS: Building the Vision  73

COIN Leaders Are Not Leaders  75

Eating and Feeding Royal Jelly 77

Royal Pheromone—Nicholas Negroponte  79

Coolfarmers Are Coolhunters  82

How Do Leaders Get Selected? 86

Coolfarming Tourists—Immersing Yourself into the Swarm 88

Coolfarming a Palm Tree Plantation— Empowering the Community 93

Running an Internet Café in Ghana—  Using the Swarm to Police the Swarm 95

Seven Guidelines for Creators 98

4 COINS: Building the Product 101

How Picasso Created Cubism Through a COIN  103

Gain Power by Giving It Up—Rotating Leadership 106

Start Out as a Small Fish in a Big Pond 111

Six Guidelines for COINs 114

5 CLNS: Teaching and Preaching the Gospel  117

Increasing Sales Through a CLN of Salespeople  120

Learning About Innovations Through the  P&G Technology Entrepreneurs 124

Coolfarming in Twilight 129

Six Guidelines for CLNs 132

6 CIN: Building the Buzz  135

Immersion Gets the Swarm to Explosion—LEGO Mindstorms 137

Building the Heat—Yummy Industries  145

From Creators to CINs— Illustrating the Process Through Social Networks  150

Five Guidelines for CINs 155

7 COOLHUNTING: Find the Trends Through the Trendsetters 159

Coolhunting Combines the Wisdom of Crowds,

Experts, and Swarms 161

Coolhunting U.S. Presidential Candidates 168

Coolhunting the Value of Brands:  Looking for the End of the Federer Era 174

Why the World’s Most Influential Intellectual

Is an Islamic Cleric  175

Predicting the Outcome of the Academy Awards 178

Predicting Stock Trends  180

Predicting the Actions of People Using Social Badges 181

8 WHAT MOTIVATES COOLFARMERS? 185

Coolfarmers Show Yhteisöllisyys and Gemeinsinn 186

Coolfarmers Are Ethical 190

COINs Need Cops  192

Coolfarmers Are Happy  193

Coolfarmers Are Altruistic 196

AFTERWORD: It’s Not Chief Executives, but Chief Creators We Need!  205

Notes 209

Index 215

About the Author 225


226 pages, Hardcover

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