Creativity in Product Innovation

Jacob Goldenberg · David Mazursky

Jan 2002 · Cambridge University Press

About this ebook

Creativity in Product Innovation describes a remarkable technique for improving the creativity process in product design. Certain 'regularities' in product development are identifiable, objectively verifiable and consistent for almost any kind of product. These regularities are described by the authors as Creativity Templates. This book describes the theory and implementation of these templates, showing how they can be used to enhance the creative process and thus enable people to be more productive and focused. Representing the culmination of years of research on the topic of creativity in marketing, the Creativity Templates approach has been recognised as a breakthrough in such journals as Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. It has been successfully implemented through workshops in international companies including Philips Consumer Electronics, Ford Motor Co., Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Kodak, Coca-Cola and many others.

About the author

Dr Jacob Goldenberg, senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Business Administration, is a leading expert on creative thinking and product development. He has taught courses and workshops in inventive thinking for hi-tech companies and marketing organizations in both Israel and the United States, and has worked with companies such as Scitex, Intel, Motorola, Coca-Cola, Mastercard, Ogilvy & Mather and Rapp & Collins. He received a joint Ph.D. degree on this topic from the School of Business Administration and the Racach Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Summa Cum Laude. His bachelor's degree was in aeronautical engineering and his master's degree in mechanical engineering. Jacob published papers in leading journals, including Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, and others.

Prof. David Mazursky is an internationally acclaimed marketing expert and a prolific author. He received his Ph.D. in marketing from the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University. A professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Business Administration, he is currently the head of the Ph.D. committee at the university's School of Business Administration, and the director of The K-Mart Center for Retailing and International Marketing. His theories and research have been widely published in leading journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Management Science, Science, and others.