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FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation

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Noted military technology expert Dan Ward’s manifesto for creating great products and projects the use of the methods of rapid innovation.

Why perform a little programs deliver their product under cost, even as others bust their budget? Why perform a little deliver ahead of schedule, even as others experience endless delays? Which products work better—the quick and thrifty or the slow and expensive? Which situation results in superior equipment?

With nearly two decades as an engineering officer in the U. S. Air Force, Dan Ward explored these questions all the way through tours of duty at military research laboratories, the Air Force Institute of Technology, an intelligence agency, the Pentagon and Afghanistan. The pattern he noticed revealed that the most successful project leaders in both the private and non-private sectors delivered top-shelf products with a skeleton crew, a shoestring budget, and a cannonball schedule. Over the top investment of time, money, or complexity if truth be told reduced innovation. He concluded the name of the game to innovation is to be fast, inexpensive, simple, and small.

FIRE presents an entertaining and practical framework for pursuing rapid, frugal innovation. A story-filled blend of popular culture and engineering insight, FIRE has something for everyone: strategic concepts leaders can use as they cast a vision, actionable principles for managers as they make business decisions, and practical tools for workers as they design, build, assess and test new products.

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