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Artful making : what managers need to know about how artists work /

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Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Austin, Robert D. (Robert Daniel), 1962- (Author), Devin, Lee, 1938- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, [2003]
Edition:[First edition].
Series:Financial Times Prentice Hall books.
Subjects:
Creative ability in business.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What's Really Different About Knowledge Work
  • Artful and Industrial Making in Action
  • Realizing the Importance of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems
  • Rolling Out Web Technology at Ford Motor Company
  • Comparing Sun and Ford
  • Streetcar at the People's Light and Theatre Company
  • Comparing Sun and People's Light
  • The Four Qualities of Artful Making (An Artful Framework)
  • Understanding Artful Making
  • Artful Making Relies on Emergence
  • The People's Light Way of Working
  • Not Quite Experiment, Not Quite Discovery
  • Exploration and Efficiency
  • Emergence in Business
  • Artful Making is Iterative, Not Sequential
  • Auto Making: Mostly Industrial
  • Software Making at Trilogy: Mostly Artful
  • The Iterative Structure of Play Production
  • The Script Is Not the Play, Nor Is It a Specification
  • The Writer's View of the Script
  • Rehearsal Process
  • Agile Software Development
  • Artful Making in Software Development and Theatre
  • Iteration as a Structure for Rigorous Work
  • The Prerequisite Conditions for Artful Making
  • Artful Making Isn't Always the Best Approach
  • Reconfiguration Costs
  • Exploration Costs
  • The General Applicability of Artful Making
  • The Role of Enabling Technologies in Reducing the Cost of Iteration
  • Reducing Reconfiguration Costs: Software Development
  • Reducing Exploration Costs: Simulation, Prototyping, and Version Control
  • When Artful and Industrial Making Are Combined
  • How Competitive Forces Drive Work Toward Artfulness.