Brand New: Solving the Innovation Paradox -- How Great Brands Invent and Launch New Products, Services, and Business Models - Hardcover

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G. MICHAEL MADDOCK is the founding partner and Chairman of Maddock Douglas (www.maddockdouglas.com) a ninety-person consulting firm whose mission is to conceptualize, design, build, and launch new products and brands that have a high probability of success. Their clients include Allstate, Cargill, ESPN, Hess, International Paper, Johnson & Johnson, Mohegan Sun, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, and Unilever. Maddock, a frequent speaker at marketing and innovation conferences worldwide, is also coauthor of the "Innovation Engine" column on BusinessWeek.com.

LUISA C. URIARTE is partner and Executive Vice President of Maddock Douglas where she oversees the insights and research functions for the firm. Luisa has more than twenty years of experience in managing research and marketing consulting projects of international scope.

PAUL B. BROWN is a longtime contributor to the New York Times. A former editor and writer for BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Inc., Brown is the author or coauthor of numerous bestsellers, including Customers for Life, written with Carl Sewell, which has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide.

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BRAND NEW'S revolutionary innovation process is a proven road map you can put to work immediately to create successful new products, services, and business models. Leading innovation practitioners, and the coauthor of the bestseller Customers for Life, the authors of this tightly focused, highly entertaining book have nailed the issue perfectly when it comes to successfully introducing anything new.

Research shows people like new products and services. Indeed they go out of their way to try to find them. Yet companies are truly terrible at providing new products and services that meet these customers' needs.

Why are companies so bad at giving customers what they want? Because they lack a simple proven process that makes sure innovation occurs efficiently time after time.

No one knows this better than Mike Maddock and his team at Maddock Douglas, the Agency of Innovation,^™ which has worked closely with more than a quarter of the Fortune 100. To solve the innovation paradox, Maddock explains the process his team has used to help the world's best companies and shows you how to:

• Find needs and opportunity in the marketplace
• Come up with significant market insights
• Create compelling communication (using the actual words your customers use) to convince people to try your new creation

What has worked for some of the world's most successful companies, when it comes to innovation, will work for you. Start putting the lessons of Brand New to work . . . before the competition does.

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BRAND NEW Solving the Innovation Paradox—How Great BrandsInvent and Launch New Products, Services, and Business Models

Brand New's revolutionary innovation process is a provenroad map you can put to work immediately to create successful newproducts, services, and business models. Leading innovationpractitioners, and the coauthor of the bestseller Customers forLife, the authors of this tightly focused, highly entertainingbook have nailed the issue perfectly when it comes tosuccessfullyintroducing anything new.

Research shows people like new products and services. Indeedthey go out of their way to try to find them. Yet companies aretruly terrible at providing new products and services that meetthese customers' needs.

Why are companies so bad at giving customers what they want?Because they lack a simple proven process that makes sureinnovation occurs efficiently time after time.

No one knows this better than Mike Maddock and his team atMaddock Douglas, the Agency of Innovation, which has worked closelywith more than a quarter of the Fortune 100. To solve theinnovation paradox, Maddock explains the process his team has usedto help the world's best companies and shows you how to:

• Find needs and opportunity in the marketplace

• Come up with significant market insights

• Create compelling communication (using the actual words yourcustomers use) to convince people to try your new creation

What has worked for some of the world's most successfulcompanies, when it comes to innovation, will work for you. Startputting the lessons of Brand New to work . . . before thecompetition does.