LEADER 03546nam 22006131 450 001 9910787648603321 005 20230721045310.0 010 $a981-4484-86-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000433226 035 $a(EBL)1389174 035 $a(OCoLC)858763130 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001153154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11758397 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001153154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11150744 035 $a(PQKB)10987931 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1389174 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1389174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10775688 035 $a(OCoLC)868957320 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000433226 100 $a20081023d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe back of the napkin $esolving problems and selling ideas with pictures /$fDan Roam 210 1$aLondon :$cMarshall Cavendish,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: New York: Portfolio, 2008. 311 $a981-4382-24-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Part I: Introductions""; ""1. A Whole New Way of Looking at Business""; ""2. Which Problems, Which Pictures, and Who is?""; ""3. A Gamble We Can't Lose: The Four Steps of Visual Thinking""; ""Part II: Discovering Ideas""; ""4. No Thanks, Just Looking""; ""5. The Six Ways of Seeing""; ""6. The Squid: A Practical Lesson in Applied Imagination""; ""7. Frameworks for Showing""; ""Part III: Developing Ideas""; ""8. Showing and the Visual Thinking MBA"" 327 $a""9. Who Are Our Customers? Pictures That Solve a Who/What Problem""""10. How Many are Buying? Pictures That Solve a How Much Problem""; ""11. Where is Our Business? Pictures That Solve a Where Problem""; ""12. When Can We Fix Things? Pictures That Solve a When Problem""; ""13. How Can We Improve Our Business? Pictures That Solve a How Problem""; ""14. Why Should We Even Bother? Pictures That Solve a Why Problem""; ""Part IV: Selling Ideas""; ""15. Everything I Know About Business I Learned in Show-and-Tell""; ""16. Drawing Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments"" 327 $a""Appendix A: The Science of Visual Thinking""""Appendix B: Resources for Visual Thinkers""; ""Index"" 330 $aThis original book provides a whole new way of looking at business problems and ideas. Dan Roam demonstrates how thinking with pictures can help you discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve your ability to share your insights with others. Used properly, a simple drawing on a humble napkin is more powerful than Excel or PowerPoint. It can help us crystallise ideas, think outside of the box, and communicate in a way that other people simply ""get"". Drawing on 20 years of visual problem solving combined with recent discoveries in vision science, 606 $aProblem solving$xAudio-visual aids 606 $aManagement$xAudio-visual aids 606 $aVisualization 606 $aCreative ability in business 615 0$aProblem solving$xAudio-visual aids. 615 0$aManagement$xAudio-visual aids. 615 0$aVisualization. 615 0$aCreative ability in business. 676 $a658.403 700 $aRoam$b Dan$01491355 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787648603321 996 $aThe back of the napkin$93713150 997 $aUNINA