The Uncertainty Mindset: Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of FoodInnovation is how businesses stay ahead of the competition and adapt to market conditions that change in unpredictable and uncertain ways. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, high-end cuisine underwent a profound transformation. Once an industry that prioritized consistency and reliability, it turned into one where constant change was a competitive necessity. A top restaurant’s reputation and success have become so closely bound up with its ability to innovate that a new organizational form, the culinary research and development team, has emerged. The best of these R&D teams continually expand the frontiers of food—they invent a constant stream of new dishes, new cooking processes and methods, and even new ways of experiencing food. How do they achieve this nonstop novelty? And what can culinary research and development teach us about how organizations innovate? |
Contents
WellKnown Barely Understood | |
Four Types of New Ideas in Food | |
A Nondelusional Worldview | |
The Uncertainty Mindset | |
The Power of Familiar Novelty | |
Learning House Style | |
The Motivation Paradox | |
Desperation by Design | |
All Change | |
A Mindset for an Uncertain World | |
Notes | |
References | |
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The Uncertainty Mindset - Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food Vaughn Tan No preview available - 2020 |
The Uncertainty Mindset - Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food Vaughn Tan No preview available - 2020 |