Hacker Culture and the New Rules of Innovation by Tim Rayner - 9781138102095

Taylor & Francis

Hacker Culture and the New Rules of InnovationAuthor(s): Tim Rayner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138102095, 978-1138102095\nSynopsis\nFifteen years ago, a company was considered innovative if the CEO and board mandated a steady flow of new product ideas through the companys innovation pipeline. Innovation was a carefully planned process, driven from above and tied to key strategic goals.\n\nNowadays, innovation means entrepreneurship, self-organizing teams, fast ideas and cheap, customer experiments. Innovation is driven by hacking, and the worlds most innovative companies proudly display their hacker credentials.\n\nHacker 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 .