Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business - Hardcover

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Luke Williams is a leading consultant, educator, and speaker specializing in disruptive thinking and innovation strategy. For more than a decade, he has worked internationally with industry leaders like American Express, GE, Sony, Crocs, Virgin, Disney, and Hewlett-Packard, to develop new products, services, and brands.

Williams is a Fellow at frog design, one of the world’s most influential innovation companies. He is also Adjunct Professor of Innovation at NYU Stern School of Business. He has been invited to speak worldwide, and his views have been featured in BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and NPR (National Public Radio). He lives in New York.

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“Remember the old Apple tagline, urging us all to ‘Think Different?’ In this book, Luke Williams shows us how to do precisely that. Disrupt helps you look at business--and the world around you--through a fresh lens, one that turns assumptions and convention upside down.”

Warren Berger, author of Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Business, Your Life, and Maybe Even the World

“Luke Williams has a powerful message for companies today: Don’t wait for a couple guys in a garage to come up with an idea that will upend your business.”

Linda Tischler, Senior Editor, Fast Company

“Disrupt is a simple yet incredibly powerful thought process which can help turn your business upside-down in seconds. Are you prepared to DISRUPT your business?”

Martin Lindstrom, best-selling author of Buyology

“If you need to drive disruptive innovation in your own organization--and you do--Luke Williams is the guide you’ve been looking for. Buy this book. Use it. Make a difference.”

David L. Rogers, author of The Network Is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age

“By artfully smashing ideas together--from Schumpeter to Tarantino, business to design--Luke Williams upends the ordinary, providing the reader with a motivational and pragmatic blueprint for innovative thinking.”

Jamyn Edis, Vice-President of Emerging Technology R&D at HBO

A Complete 5-Step Process for Identifying Disruptive Business Opportunities--and Successfully Executing Them

In a business world of nonstop change,there’s only one way to win the game: Transform it entirely. This requires a revolution in thinking: a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions. In Disrupt, Luke Williams shows exactly how to generate those strategies and deliver those solutions.

This book reflects Williams’ immense experience creating breakthrough solutions at frog design, one of the world’s leading innovation firms. Williams shows how to combine fluid creativity with analytical rigor in a simple, complete, five-stage process for successfully disrupting any market.

You’ll learn why the most unexpected ideas draw the least competitors--and offer the greatest potential. Then, using many examples and a case study, you’ll walk through every step of transforming disruptive ideas from conception to breakthrough business strategy.

Craft your disruptive hypothesis

Be wrong at the start, to be right at the end

Discover your best disruptive opportunities

Explore the most unexpected corners of your environment

Efficiently shape your disruptive solution

Avoid the resource-killer that is “novelty for novelty’s sake”

Make your winning disruptive pitch

Underprepare the obvious, overprepare the unusual