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Author Rayner, Timothy, author.

Title Hacker culture and the new rules of innovation / Tim Rayner
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents The hacker generation -- Hacker leadership -- The agile organization -- The hack and the gift -- Making space for innovation -- Happy hacker teams -- Hacking whole systems
Summary Fifteen years ago, a company was considered innovative if the CEO and board mandated a steady flow of new product ideas through the company's innovation pipeline. Innovation was a carefully planned process, driven from above and tied to key strategic goals.Nowadays, innovation means entrepreneurship, self-organizing teams, fast ideas and cheap, customer experiments. Innovation is driven by hacking, and the world's most innovative companies proudly display their hacker credentials.Hacker culture grew up on the margins of the computer industry. It entered the business world in the twenty-first century through agile software development, design thinking and lean startup method, the pillars of the contemporary startup industry. Startup incubators today are filled with hacker entrepreneurs, running fast, cheap experiments to push against the limits of the unknown. As corporations, not-for-profits and government departments pick up on these practices, seeking to replicate the creative energy of the startup industry, hacker culture is changing how we think about leadership, work and innovation. This book is for business leaders, entrepreneurs and academics interested in how digital culture is reformatting our economies and societies. Shifting between a big picture view on how hacker culture is changing the digital economy and a detailed discussion of how to create and lead in-house teams of hacker entrepreneurs, it offers an essential introduction to the new rules of innovation and a practical guide to building the organizations of the future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Organizational change.
Hacking -- Social aspects
Organizational Innovation
Organizational change
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315103662
1315103664
9781351595742
1351595741