Mauro Porcini

PepsiCo's and 3M's award-winning chief design officer reveals the secret to creating life-changing innovations: putting the human factor at the center of everything. In every industry, new technologies have lowered the barrier to entry like never before. Either you design exceptional products, brands and experiences, or somebody will beat you to it. And Mauro Porcini - PepsiCo's and 3M's first ever chief design officer - says, the key to real, world-changing innovation is to put people first.
 
Putting people first requires what Porcini calls unicorns: people who are in love with people and who have a genuine fire in them to create meaningful solutions for actual human beings. In this book, he describes them, celebrates them, and details their superpowers so you can find them, hire them, grow them, and retain them. Some have qualities you might expect—the ability to dream and an attention to detail—but when was the last time you heard an executive ask prospective hires if they were kind or humble?
 
Porcini uses his journey across startups and multinational corporations, through successes and failures, to create a handbook for modern innovators. This book is written by a celebrated designer, high-level corporate executive, and a decent human being.

Il nostro mondo è in costante, vorticoso cambiamento: nel giro di pochissimi anni social media, globalizzazione, nuove tecnologie, perfino una pandemia, hanno cambiato forma a tutto ciò che conoscevamo. Ma queste rivoluzioni hanno aperto le porte a una vera e propria “età dell’eccellenza”, a un futuro in cui le menti più creative e brillanti potranno creare idee, progetti e oggetti straordinari, che mettano al centro l’uomo e i suoi bisogni. Una nuova società, più prospera e felice. Ma cosa serve per avere successo in questa nuova era? Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer di PepsiCo, ha fatto dell’innovazione il proprio mantra e ha modificato radicalmente il modo di lavorare di alcune delle più importanti e ricche multinazionali al mondo: in questo libro, fondendo teoria e pratica, business strategy ed esperienze personali, incontri tanto con guru dell’imprenditoria quanto con star della musica e dello spettacolo (Lana del Rey, Tiësto, Jovanotti), spiega cosa significa essere innovativi e traccia la via che individui e imprese dovranno seguire per prosperare nel futuro, per liberare energie creative e per creare un mondo migliore, con al centro, sempre più, gli esseri umani.

My master’s thesis explored the frontier of Wearable Technologies — how smart clothing and intelligent objects could become part of our bodies and our daily rituals. In the QS World University Rankings by subject, Politecnico di Milano stands 7th worldwide in Design and Architecture, and ranks as the #1 university in Italy and all of Southern Europe.

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