Trend-Driven Innovation: Beat Accelerating Customer Expectations - Softcover

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Henry Mason (Managing Director) has overseen trend thinking across all trendwatching.com's free publications and paid services since 2010. In the past 3 years, Henry has given over 50 keynote presentations in more than 25 countries across 6 continents. Henry has been quoted as a trend expert in numerous business publications, including The Guardian, Financial Times, El Pais, The New York Times and The Economist, and has appeared on television networks such as CNBC, the BBC, Al Jazeera and Brazil's Globo News.

David Mattin (Head of Trends & Insights) is responsible for day-to-day trend thinking across free and Premium content. He started his career on the features desk at The Times, and has written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio. His business, innovation and consumer insight journalism has appeared in a wide range of newspapers and magazines including CNBC, Quartz, Inc Magazine, the National, Harper’s Bazaar and more. 

Delia Dumitrescu (Lead Innovation Architect) has delivered presentations and workshops across Europe, and guest lectures at various universities. She is a published trend and innovation expert, and author of several books including Road Trip to Innovation and was featured in Forbes Romania’s Top 30 Under 30 in 2014.

Maxwell Luthy (Senior Trend Strategist) represents trendwatching.com in North America, delivering keynotes and facilitating client workshops. Maxwell was previously the Director of trendwatching.com’s 2,600+ international spotter network.. He has spoken on trends in the US, UK, Turkey, South Africa and the Philippines, and has been quoted as a trend expert in publications such as the Financial Times.

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<p><b>TURN OVERWHELM INTO OPPORTUNITY. HERE&#39;S HOW &#62;</b> <p>Every business leader, entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer wants to know where customers are headed. The problem&#63; The received wisdom on how to find out is wrong. This book demonstrates a powerful, counterintuitive truth: to anticipate what people will want next, stop looking at customers and start looking at businesses. That means learning how to draw actionable insights from the way leading brands and disruptive startups&#151;from Apple to Uber, Chipotle to Patagonia&#151;redefine expectations. Sharing the secrets that have led hundreds of thousands of professionals at the world&#39;s most successful brands and agencies to rely on TrendWatching for over a decade, <i>Trend&#45;Driven Innovation</i> will reconfigure your view of the business world. Highly visual and intensely practical, it will act as a step&#45;by&#45;step manual to enable you to build an organization that matters, products customers love, and campaigns people can&#39;t stop talking about. <p><i>&#34;If you&#39;re an innovator, designer, entrepreneur, or in need of one, read this book. It is entertaining and pathologically precise, and unveils a simple and elegant system for spotting early trends that may reshape our business, community, and life.&#34;</i> <br/>&#151;Lisa Gansky, entrepreneur, investor, author of <i>The Mesh</i>