Why not ?

How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small

Barry Nalebuff, Ian Ayres

254 pages, parution le 16/10/2003

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Robert F. Kennedy challenged us to "dream of things that never were and say, Why not?" Why Not? is a primer for fresh business thinking, for problem solving with a purpose, for bringing the world a few steps closer to the way it should be. Idealistic? Yes. Unrealistic? No.

Authors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres have spent their careers asking questions, solving problems, and bringing fresh ideas to market--from insurance that protects against a decline in your home's value to Honest Tea, bottled iced tea that actually tastes like tea. Illustrated with examples from every aspect of life, this book offers simple techniques for generating ingenious solutions to existing problems and for applying existing solutions to new problems.

In the spirit of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking, Why Not? will help you take the things we all see, every day and think about them in a new way. Why not have telemarketers pay you for your time when they call? Why not sell a mortgage that automatically refinances when interest rates drop? Why not organize a "buycott" rather than a boycott? Why Not? will provoke you into finding new business opportunities using everyday ingenuity. Great ideas are waiting. Why not be the one to discover them? Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management and co-author of Co-opetition and Thinking Strategically.

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Sommaire

The Way Things Never Were
Good Ideas and How to Generate Them
Problems in Search of Solutions
- What Would Croesus Do?
- Why Don't You Feel My Pain?
Solutions in Search of Problems
- Where Else Would It Work?
- Would Flipping It Work?
Problem solving in a purpose
- Principled Problem Solving
- The case for Honest Tea
- Reinventing Regulation
- Implementing Why-Not
Appendix
Endnotes
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Expanded

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Éditeur(s)	Harvard Business School Press (HBS)
Auteur(s)	Barry Nalebuff, Ian Ayres
Parution	16/10/2003
Nb. de pages	254
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	585g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781591391531
ISBN13	978-1-59139-153-1