| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 201 pages) : illustrations |
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Financial Times Prentice Hall |
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Financial Times Prentice Hall books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Praise Page -- Title Page -- Copyright 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc. -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 What's Really Different About Knowledge Work -- Artful and Industrial Making in Action -- The Four Qualities of Artful Making (An Artful Framework) -- Understanding Artful Making -- CHAPTER 2 Artful Making Relies on Emergence -- The People's Light Way of Working -- Emergence in Business -- CHAPTER 3 Artful Making is Iterative, Not Sequential -- Auto Making: Mostly Industrial -- Software Making at Trilogy: Mostly Artful -- The Iterative Structure of Play Production -- Agile Software Development -- Artful Making in Software Development and Theatre -- Iteration as a Structure for Rigorous Work -- CHAPTER 4 The Prerequisite Conditions for Artful Making -- Artful Making Isn't Always the Best Approach -- The Role of Enabling Technologies in Reducing the Cost of Iteration -- When Artful and Industrial Making Are Combined. |
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How Competitive Forces Drive Work Toward Artfulness -- A Common Problem: Imposing Industrial Costs on Potentially Artful Processes -- The Historical Evolution of Artful Making Prerequisites -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 5 Artful Making as Part of the Shift to a Knowledge Economy -- Ancient Making -- Industrial Making -- Artful Making -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 6 Artful Making Turns Industrial Notions of Control Upside Down -- Managing People Who Are Smarter Than You Are -- Control in Artful Making -- The Director's/Manager's Artful Lever: Focusing the Group -- The Precision of Control by Release -- Control by Release -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 7 Artful Making Reconceives; Industrial Making Replicates -- Reconceiving Hamlet -- Reconceiving to Recover Apollo 13 -- The Differences Between Reconceiving and Replicating -- The Capabilities of Reconceiving and Replicating -- Artful Making and the Customer -- Never-Done, Constantly Improving Development -- Reconceiving versus Compromising. |
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Artful Collaboration -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 8 Artful Making Requires a Secure Workspace -- Securing the Workspace -- Creative Interchange -- Working on Your "Edge" -- Making an Ensemble -- Two Kinds of Reality -- A Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 9 Artful Making Embraces Uncertainty Instead of Protecting Against It -- McDonald's French Fries, Various Cattle, and Urgent Customer Orders -- Artful Making Doesn't Protect Against Uncertainty -- Improvisation and Control -- Artful Making and Interdependency -- The Emergent Final Purpose -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 10 Artful Making is Fiscally Responsible -- Deadlines and Reliable Innovation -- Funding Emergent Projects: A Venture-Based Approach3 -- Fiscal Responsibility in Artful Making -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 11 Artful Management -- Managing Convergence and Emergence -- Essential Themes -- Artful Management Signposts -- The Artful Making Qualities -- A Director on Management -- Endnotes. |
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CHAPTER 12 A Final Word -- A Last Look at the Theatre -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Books -- Periodicals -- Cases and Working Papers -- Video -- Acknowledgements -- T. |
| Summary |
Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate striking structural similarities between theatre artistry and production and today's business projects--and show how collaborative artists have mastered the art of delivering innovation "on cue," on immovable deadlines and budgets. These methods are neither mysterious nor flaky: they are rigorous, precise, and--with this book's help--absolutely learnable and reproducible. They rely on cheap and rapid iteration rather than on intensive up-front planning, and with the help of today's enabling technologies, they can be applied in virtually any environment with knowledge-based outputs. Moreover, they provide an overarching framework for leveraging the full benefits of today's leading techniques for promoting flexibility and innovation, from agile development to real options. |
| Subject |
Creative ability in business.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Créativité dans les affaires. |
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Creative ability in business |
| Added Author |
Devin, Lee, 1938-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Austin, Robert D. (Robert Daniel), 1962- Artful making. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, ©2003 0130086959 (DLC) 2003053102 (OCoLC)52374448 |
| ISBN |
0131517120 (electronic bk.) |
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9780131517127 (electronic bk.) |
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(alk. paper) |
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