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# Frugal Innovation: How to do more with less (Economist Books)

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Review: Marvelous book - Very happy with my new book!
Review: Guide to innovation - I had earlier read the book “Open business models” by Henry Chesbrough, which was focused on the Open Innovation model. Frugal innovation is an interesting name to a cluster of business models emerging – whether it is through larger sharing model , open innovation models , resource constrained model or bottom of the pyramid model. It is the proliferation of the net which is playing a strong enabler in this. And yes, the driving ideology being - fail early, fail fast and fail often. This book is very contemporary and gives a good compendium of cases in each of the models. I am quite amazed to think about the amount of research which would have been undertaken to compile this. But given the models are very new and growing means that the research must have taken at a very good speed. I found so many cases which I wanted to highlight when I realized that I might end up highlighting the entire book !! So, had to curtail the impulse for that. While the case studies are in a way educative enough , Navi and Jaideep have tried to extract some six common principles driving frugal innovation. I found Engage & Iterate and Co-create with Prosumers to be very interesting . While I have interacted with Techshops, but the way they are getting adopted by big manufacturing corporates was very interesting. Surely, customers are the most powerful source for any innovation , and more so for frugal innovation.This book can tell you how to get around doing it Micro factories was another interesting case being discussed here. While it may not find application in major metal and petrochemical operations, but surely there are many other applications of this. Tarkett was a very good case study in Sustainability in true sense of ensuring growth of an organization, which is relying on resources which are not going to last long. Cradle to cradle being practiced at its best. Method was another good case in the same. It was also interesting to see how sharing business models (Airbnb, Relayrides, BlaBlaCar, Parkatmy house, yerdle, etc ) are forcing established manufacturers like BMW to innovate new business models. However, if such models proliferate, what will be the impact on the manufacturing economy also could have been spoken about. There are so many other cases that referring to all of them would amount to almost reproducing the book. So, if you are one of those in the larger 80% group of companies who are wondering what frugal innovation is all about and wondering how totally unrelated models have the potential to devastate an existing business, do read this book. It is almost like a guide to innovation – the last chapter actually helps one answer the question of why should one innovate. The book may have a slow start as the topics seem to be jumping frequently, but keep reading on and it gets very interesting. Yes, it could have been stitched better, but a stitch in time is more critical, so with this book.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #800,162 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #73 in Business Research & Development #1,031 in Starting a Business (Books) #1,137 in Business Education & Reference (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 104 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Marvelous book
*by J***. on December 2, 2019*

Very happy with my new book!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Guide to innovation
*by H***R on May 5, 2015*

I had earlier read the book “Open business models” by Henry Chesbrough, which was focused on the Open Innovation model. Frugal innovation is an interesting name to a cluster of business models emerging – whether it is through larger sharing model , open innovation models , resource constrained model or bottom of the pyramid model. It is the proliferation of the net which is playing a strong enabler in this. And yes, the driving ideology being - fail early, fail fast and fail often. This book is very contemporary and gives a good compendium of cases in each of the models. I am quite amazed to think about the amount of research which would have been undertaken to compile this. But given the models are very new and growing means that the research must have taken at a very good speed. I found so many cases which I wanted to highlight when I realized that I might end up highlighting the entire book !! So, had to curtail the impulse for that. While the case studies are in a way educative enough , Navi and Jaideep have tried to extract some six common principles driving frugal innovation. I found Engage & Iterate and Co-create with Prosumers to be very interesting . While I have interacted with Techshops, but the way they are getting adopted by big manufacturing corporates was very interesting. Surely, customers are the most powerful source for any innovation , and more so for frugal innovation.This book can tell you how to get around doing it Micro factories was another interesting case being discussed here. While it may not find application in major metal and petrochemical operations, but surely there are many other applications of this. Tarkett was a very good case study in Sustainability in true sense of ensuring growth of an organization, which is relying on resources which are not going to last long. Cradle to cradle being practiced at its best. Method was another good case in the same. It was also interesting to see how sharing business models (Airbnb, Relayrides, BlaBlaCar, Parkatmy house, yerdle, etc ) are forcing established manufacturers like BMW to innovate new business models. However, if such models proliferate, what will be the impact on the manufacturing economy also could have been spoken about. There are so many other cases that referring to all of them would amount to almost reproducing the book. So, if you are one of those in the larger 80% group of companies who are wondering what frugal innovation is all about and wondering how totally unrelated models have the potential to devastate an existing business, do read this book. It is almost like a guide to innovation – the last chapter actually helps one answer the question of why should one innovate. The book may have a slow start as the topics seem to be jumping frequently, but keep reading on and it gets very interesting. Yes, it could have been stitched better, but a stitch in time is more critical, so with this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Good concepts but ....
*by B***I on September 19, 2016*

I expected to find tools and techniques to apply frugal innovation. Unfortunately, the book provided various some good concepts. _

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