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Publications
Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier
by B. Joseph Pine II and Kim C. Korn
We are now deeply into an Experience Economy, where memorable events that engage people in inherently personal ways have become the predominant economic offering. Digital technology is an unparalleled tool for creating high value experiences for your customers, but what is the best way for your business to use it? The possibilities seem infinite. What kinds of experiences can you create? Which ones should you create?
To help your company take advantage of digital technology, Joe and Kim bring you the Multiverse. This profound new model helps you to conceptualize and combine various aspects of the virtual and the real to create breakthrough customer experiences. Some of the most powerful experiences incorporate both worlds-like the Wii, which combines a physical experience with a virtual one. They delineates eight different realms of digital/real experience and, using dozens of actual examples, show how innovative companies are operating within-and across-each to create extraordinary customer value.
See Joe Pine's video introduction to Infinite Possibility.
For a more in-depth presentation of the Multiverse, granted from an early version, see the MOMA presentation.
Please check out the book Infinite Possiblity and the Multiverse Interactive tool on Berrett-Koehler's website.
Most of all, see the Infinite Possibility website for further information, ideas, and updates.
Please feel free to contact Kim to discuss the Multiverse, creating value on the digital frontier, and how all this fits into Create Advantage's offerings to help your company, or any organization, thrive indefinitely.
Regenerative Management: Creating Persistent Advantage
by Kim C. Korn and B. Joseph Pine II.
Joe and Kim are in the process of creating another book for you.
For too long companies have cycled between the rewards of mastery and the pain of mediocrity, with the blame squarely on the conventional ways they have been managed. The path to achieving persistent advantage lies in innovating management itself to nurture inspiration (via a compelling purpose) and foster collaboration (via meeting employees' innate needs) in ways tailored to each business.
Regenerative Management makes sense of what management needs to do and be in order for companies to perpetually regenerate themselves and thereby sustain their vitality and competitive advantage. It guides business leaders through their own comprehensive yet pragmatic application of what we call Regenerative Management. Its fundamental laws, guiding principles, and insightful frameworks create, balance, and integrate the two activities every company must do effectively: explore and exploit. The book's comparison of Regenerative Management with conventional management clarifies its essence while pertinent examples from companies illustrate its practices in action. Business leaders will find this new way of management, with its hallmarks of inspiration and collaboration, a powerful touchstone from which to reinvent their companies' own management just as the ineffectiveness of conventional command and control becomes more and more evident.
There is no release date for this book yet. Find previews of the content at the Create Advantage Library and Forum.
Please feel free to contact Kim to discuss Regenerative Management, the management that perpetually rejuvenates your company, or any organization, to thrive indefinitely.
Business Model Generation
Business Model Generation-by Alexander Osterwalder and Pigneur Yves. Kim was one of the 470 participants from 45 countries that collaborated to create this book. We all had an opportunity to review, edit, add, comment, and make suggestions as the book was being written. The participants helped supply ideas, examples, materials, and editing. We had a say in the art work and the binding. This collaboration process started December 2008 when Alex Osterwalder invited people to join a hub on the Internet and co-create this book. This boot stands as a powerful example of global collaboration and open innovation demonstrating the creativity, intellect, and social engagement possible with today's digital technology. Business Model Generation comes in both a deluxe and paperback version.
Other Sources
Other sources of knowledge will be posted here as we prepare them. For books, articles, and so forth that relate to regenerative management by other authors, see the Create Advantage Library and Forum, or in other words, the Blog.
But there are many other sources to follow in order to pick up new ideas for management innovation. A few very worthy ones we encourage you to follow:
- The Management Information Exchange—It's time to reinvent management. You can help.
- The Harvard Business Review Blog Network—A constant flow of ideas about how to innovate management, companies, and business in general.
- design mind—focuses on aiding the design community, including business design.