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Why not? : how to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small
Title:
Why not? : how to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small
Author:
Nalebuff, Barry, 1958-
ISBN:
9781591391531

9781422104347

9781591396819
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Publication Information:
Boston : Harvard Business School Press, ©2003.
Physical Description:
xv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The way things never were -- Good ideas and how to generate them -- Problems in search of solutions -- What would croesus do? taking the perspective of an unconstrained consumer -- Why dont you feel my pain? internalizing the external effects of decision making -- Solutions in search of problems -- Where else would it work? looking for idea arbitrage opportunities -- Would flipping it work? trying things the other way around -- Problem solving with a purpose -- Principled problem solving: a guide to thinking inside the box -- The case for honest tea -- Reinventing regulation -- Implementing why-not.
Abstract:
Offers guidelines for brainstorming and problem solving in order to solve new problems with existing solutions and to generate new solutions for existing problems.
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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003010767.html
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